Background
He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard University, before becoming a curator at that university"s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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Fenner Chace
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Education
Harvard University.
Career
In his own words, he "served as a civilian oceanographer and commissioned officer (first lieutenant to major) in the Army Air Corps (subsequently transferred to the Oceanographic Unit of the United States. Navy Hydrographic Office in Suitland, Maryland" during the Second World War, and afterwards, he succeeded Waldo L. Schmitt at the United States National Museum. He worked at the National Museum until his retirement in 1978, and then he continued as Zoologist Emeritus. He was "one of the most influential carcinologists of the 20th century", and named 200 taxa in the Decapoda and Stomatopoda, most of them shrimp.
Named by Fenner A. Chace include:
Chace is commemorated in a number of names of taxa:
The shrimp genus Janicea (currently in the family Barbouriidae) is named after Chace"s wife, Janice.
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March 30, 2004 (aged 95)