Background
Johnson, Martin Wigge was born on September 30, 1893 in Chandler, South Dakota, United States. Son of Christian Hans and Julia M. (Hansen) Johnson.
Johnson, Martin Wigge was born on September 30, 1893 in Chandler, South Dakota, United States. Son of Christian Hans and Julia M. (Hansen) Johnson.
After army service during World War I, Johnson attended the University of Washington and graduated in 1923. He was later awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by his university.
Teacher high schools, Seattle, 1924; curator, Puget Sound (Washington) Biological Station, 1924-1929; biologist, International Passamaguoddy Fisheries Commission, 1932-1933; research associate, U. Washington, 1933-1934; associate professor summers, U. Washington, 1941, 47; professor summers, U. Washington, 1960, 62; faculty, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, 1934-1992; assistant professor, associate professor marine biology, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, 1934-1949; professor marine biology, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, 1949-1962; professor emeritus, research marine biologist, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, 1962-1992. Marine biologist University of California Division War Research, 1942-1946.
Staff Operation Crossroads, United States Navy, 1946. National Research Council co-Chairman of Commission on marine biology 6th Pacific Science Congress, 1939. Delegate National Research Council, also University of California, 7th and 8th Pacific Science Congresses, New Zealand, 1949, P.I., 1953.
Advising committee Pacific Science Board National Research Council, 1946-1992. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization advising committee for Biological Center, India, 1962-1992. Review consultant for National Science Foundation and for Atomic Energy Commission.
Served as muscian withCAC, United States Army World War I. Fellow California Academy science, San Diego Society Naturalists (president 1949), American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Limnology and Oceanography (president western secretary 1952), Western Society Naturalists (president 1953), American Micros. Society, Society Systematic Zoology, Sigma Xi.
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Married Lelia T. Clutter, April 16, 1924. Children: Byron M., Phyllis T.