Carl Gans

1923 - 2009

Country of citizenship: Germany, United States

Languages spoken, written or signed: German, English

Educated at: Harvard University, New York University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington Educational Campus, Babcock & Wilcox

Occupation: herpetologist, zoologist, university teacher

Award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp

Official website: carlgans.org

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Carl Gans (7 September 1923 – 30 November 2009) was a German-born American zoologist and herpetologist. He and Glen Northcutt proposed the provocative theory of "new head theory", opened up evolutionary developmental biology as a new discipline. Source: Wikipedia (en)