Background
Galtsoff, Paul Simon was born on March 28, 1887 in Moscow, Russia. Son of Simon Peter and Sophia (Poletaev) Galtsoff.
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Paul Simon Galtsoff
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Graduate Classical School, Moscow, 1905. Diploma First Degree, Imperial Moscow University, 1910. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1924.
Career
Came to the United States, 1921, naturalized, 1927. Research fellow department zoology and instructor invertebrate zoology, Moscow University, 1910-1913. Senior biologist in charge marine lab, at Sebastopol, Crimea, Russian Academy of Science, 1914-1920.
Extensive study of effect of dam construction in life of Mississippi River, 1921-1922.
Naturalist of United States Ship Albatross, United States bureau of Fisheries, 1922-1925. In charge of section of shellfishery investigation, United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Research biologist with Service, 1948. Student process regeneration in sponges, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Leader government expedition to explore pearl oyster resources of Hawaiian Islands, 1938-1939.
At request of British Government studied sponge disease in West Indies. At request of Panamanian government studied pearl fishery and biology of pearl oyster in Gulf of Panama, 1948. Made biological exploration near Margarita Island, Venezuela, 1948.
Science observer Bikini atom bomb tests, 1946.
Director United States Shellfishery Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, until 1964. Advisor Marine Laboratory, University of Miami.
Trustee International Oceanographic Foundation. In Russian Army, 1914-1919.
Achievements
Membership
Member international secretariat, United Nations Conference trustee Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole and Bermuda Biological Laboratory. Member graduate council, George Washington University. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member Washington Academy Sciences, American Society of Zoologists, American Naturalists, Society General Physiologists, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Washington Biological Society, Sigma Xi.
Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Connections
Married Eugenia Troussoff, November 5, 1911.
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Awards
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Awarded Moscow U. gold medal for research, 1910. Bogandov Prize of Moscow Society of Friends of Natural History, 1914. Gold medal for outstanding service Department of Interior.Awarded Moscow U. gold medal for research, 1910. Bogandov Prize of Moscow Society of Friends of Natural History, 1914. Gold medal for outstanding service Department of Interior.