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Hampton L. Carson (19142004)
Director, Center for Conservation Research & Training, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
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Hampton L. Carson was born on November 5, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He obtained both an undergraduate (A.B., 1936) and postgraduate degree (Ph.D., 1943) from the University of Pennsylvania. He was hired as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1943 and remained on the faculty as Associate Professor and Full Professor until 1971, when he moved to Hawaii to become Professor of Genetics at the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine.
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