Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals, Division of Paleontology; Principal Investigator, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics; Dean and Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School
Hans Christian Adamson, writer, reporter; also worked for the American Museum of Natural History (Chairman, Public and Press Information, 1938-1941; Special Consultant, Public Relations, 1946)
Carl Ethan Akeley (born May 19, 1864, Clarendon, New York— died November
17, 1926, Belgian Congo, Africa), taxidermist, sculptor, inventor, explorer, and
naturalist, who led five expeditions to Africa, three of which for the Museum of
Natural History where he gathered specimens for his African Hall Exhibition. He
is the author of the book In Brightest Africa.