George Wilton Field

George Wilton Field, Ph. D. (1863 – 1938) was an American biologist, born at North Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University (A.M., 1890) and from Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D, 1892). He studied in Naples, Italy at the Naples Zoological Station, and in Munich. He became associate professor of cellular biology at Brown University from 1893-96. He worked in Rhode Island and Massachusetts in his occupations. He was biologist a... more

George Wilton Field, Ph. D. (1863 – 1938) was an American biologist, born at North Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University (A.M., 1890) and from Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D, 1892). He studied in Naples, Italy at the Naples Zoological Station, and in Munich. He became associate professor of cellular biology at Brown University from 1893-96. He worked in Rhode Island and Massachusetts in his occupations. He was biologist at the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station from 1896 to 1901; instructor in economic biology at MIT in 1902; and worked at the Massachusetts Commission on Fisheries and Game. Prof. Field became a director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and, in 1911, was made president of the National Shellfish Association. less