Mrosovsky, Nicholas

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Name (Latin)
Mrosovsky, Nicholas
Other forms of name
Mrosovsky, N. (Nicholas)
Date of birth
1934-03-03
Date of death
2015-02-22
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 18659442
Wikidata: Q112602812
Library of congress: n 85163791
Sources of Information
  • His Conserving sea turtles, 1983:t.p. (Nicholas Mrosovsky) p. 3 of cover (prof. of zoology and psych. at Univ. of Toronto)
  • Predicting extinction, 2003:t.p. (N. Mrosovsky)
  • LC data base, 10-16-85(hdg.: Mrosovsky, Nicholas)

Wikipedia description:

Nicholas Mrosovsky (3 March 1934 – 22 February 2015) was a Canadian zoologist known for his research in the fields of homeostasis, chronobiology, and sea turtle biology. He spent his whole professional career at the University of Toronto. His laboratory was notable for its seminal investigations of the influence of behavioural arousal on circadian rhythms. He was also the founder, in 1976, of Marine Turtle Newsletter. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, and in 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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