Henry Augustus Pilsbry

Henry Augustus Pilsbry
Henry Augustus Pilsbry
Born(1862-12-07)December 7, 1862
DiedOctober 26, 1957(1957-10-26) (aged 94)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Iowa
AwardsLeidy Award (1928)
Scientific career
Fieldsmalacology
InstitutionsAcademy of Natural Sciences
Academic advisorsGeorge Washington Tryon

Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century. For much of his career, his authority with respect to the classification of certain substantial groups of organisms was unchallenged: barnacles, chitons, North American terrestrial mollusks, and others.