David Starr Jordan ... David Starr Jordan ( – ) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he served as president of Indiana University from 1885 to 1891.
David Starr Jordan (born , Gainesville, New York, U.S.—died , Stanford, California) was a naturalist, educator, eugenicist, and the foremost American ichthyologist of his time.
David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) was a widely revered ichthyologist, founding president of Stanford University, and intermittent president and curator of fish at the California Academy of Sciences.
David Starr Jordan was born on , in Gainesville, New York. His father, Hiram Jordan, was born in Moriah, New York, his mother Huldah Hawley, was born in Whitehall, New York.
David Starr Jordan, M. D., Ph.D. LL.D. | Hopkins Seaside Laboratory ...
David Starr Jordan was the first president of Stanford University. He was also a eugenicist and was deeply influential in spreading eugenic theory.
On a warm June Friday in 1891, a 6-foot-2 professor with broad shoulders and a bushy mustache stepped out onto the railway platform in Menlo Park, Calif. Loaded with baggage on one arm and his 2-year-old son in the other, David Starr Jordan knew he had no time to waste.
David Starr Jordan studied fish and promoted eugenics in the US during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his work, he embraced Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and described the importance of embryology in tracing phylogenic relationships.
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), American scientist and university administrator, distinguished himself as a teacher of biology, an ichthyologist, and an influential college president.