Background
DUNBAR, Maxwell was born on September 19, 1914 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of William Dunbar and Elizabeth Robertson.
DUNBAR, Maxwell was born on September 19, 1914 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of William Dunbar and Elizabeth Robertson.
Fettes College, Edinburgh, Oxford University, Yale University, McGill University, Canada.
Assistant Professor, of Zoology, McGill University 1946-1948, Association Professor 1948-1959, Professor 1959-1982, Professor Emeritus since 1982, Chairman Marine Sciences Centre 1963-1977. Governor Arctic Institute of N. America 1963-1975. Director Eastern Arctic Investigations (Canada) 1947-1955.
Expeditions: W. Greenland 1935, 1936, Alaska 1938, Ungava Bay 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, Hudson Bay 1954. Guggenheim Fellowship, Denmark 1952-1953. Organizer and Chair, first Polar Oceans Conference (SCOR, SCAR) 1974.
Institute Convenor, Institute Biological Programme 1971-1975. Fellow Arctic Institute of N. America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Linnean Society of London. Honorary Fellow American Geographical Society of New York.
Honorary Doctor of Science (Memorial University of Newfoundland) 1979. Bruce Memorial.
Married 1st Joan Jackson (died in 1959), 2nd Nancy Wosstroff in 1960.