Charles henry turner zoologist biography of alberta

Chicago, Illinois, 14 February , zoology, invertebrate learning, education. Turner was the first African American scientist interested in the comparative analysis of behavior. He made fundamental contributions in the areas of vertebrate and invertebrate morphology, naturalistic observation, apparatus design, death feigning, and invertebrate learning.

Dr charles henry turner early life

He was an early leader in the civil rights movement, contributing several seminal papers on race relations. Turner received the majority of his education in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Woodard High School and graduated valedictorian. Following his marriage to Leontine Troy in , he earned both his BS and MS degrees in and , respectively, under the direction of his mentor Clarence L.

Herrick of the University of Cincinnati. Upon graduation, he held a number of appointments at various high schools in the southern United States and at Clark University in Atlanta, Georgia, before settling at Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri, in , where he remained until his retirement precipitated by illness in Turner earned his PhD in zoology, magna cum laude, at the University of Chicago in He died of myocarditis in the home of the younger of his two sons, Darwin Romanes Turner, a successful pharmacist in Chicago, Illinois.