The HistoryMakers video oral history with Scott Edwards.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 28 min., 51 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337130
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Scott Edwards
Scott Edwards
Other authors / contributors:Edwards, Scott V., 1963- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2012 October 12.
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Summary:Biologist and professor Scott V. Edwards was born on July 7, 1963 in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up in Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Edwards earned his B.S. degree in biology from Harvard University in 1986. Edwards then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with his Ph.D. degree in zoology in 1992. In 1994, Edwards joined the University of Washington in Seattle where he became an assistant professor of zoology and curator of genetic resources at the university's Burke Museum. He left in 2003, to assume a professorial position at Harvard University in organismic and evolutionary biology as well as curator of ornithology at the museum of comparative zoology. In 2010, Edwards was invited to co-host the six-part science fiction series Beast Legends, reconstructing what mythological creatures may have looked like. Edwards was elected a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2015.