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Frank Michler Chapman (June 12, 1864 – November 15, 1945) was a U.S. ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides.〔Vuilleumier, François (2005). "Dean of American Ornithologists: The Multiple Legacies of Frank M. Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History," ''The Auk'', Vol. 122, No. 2, pp. 389-402.〕 ==Biography== Chapman was born in West Englewood, New Jersey and attended Englewood Academy.〔(Chapman, Frank Michler (United States 1864-1945) ), Western Kentucky University. Accessed March 12, 2008. "born in West Englewood, New Jersey, on 12 June 1864."〕 He joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in 1888 as assistant to Joel Asaph Allen. In 1901 he was made associate Curator of Mammals and Birds and in 1908 Curator of Birds. Chapman came up with the original idea for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. He also wrote many ornithological books such as, ''Bird Life'', ''Birds of Eastern North America'', ''Bird Studies With a Camera'', and ''Life in an Air Castle''. For his work, ''Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia'', he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1917.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_elliot )〕 Chapman fathered one child, Frank Chapman, Jr., who first married playwright Elizabeth Cobb and had a daughter, actress and TV personality Buff Cobb,〔Hevesi, Dennis. ("Buff Cobb, Actress and TV Host, Dies at 82" ), ''The New York Times'', July 21, 2010〕 and after divorcing married mezzo-soprano opera singer Gladys Swarthout. Chapman was interred at Brookside Cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Chapman (ornithologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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