| Donald Putnam Abbott was an American zoologist and spouse of the phycologist Isabella Abbott, centered at the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California, owned by Stanford University. His legacy as a teacher of marine invertebrate zoology is firmly established, having launched launched 25 new Ph.D. students at Stanford. Abbott in 1980 co-authored Intertidal Invertebrates of California, considered the definitive manual. He made many sea voyages in tropical oceans for his own research and to introduce students to oceanic environments and biota. Abbott contracted polio in the Caroline Islands on one such trip in 1953, but mostly recovered with a new zest for research and teaching which lasted till the end of his life. |
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