Donn Eric Rosen (1929-1986) was a member of the staff of the

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. He was a Distinguished Fellow of the

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Family

Born to immigrants Irwin Rosen (b. 1885) and Anita Gerber Rosen (b. 1906), Rosen has an older brother: Charles Welles. Both his parents were born in Russia. Irwin came to the United States in 1889 and had a career in architecture. Anita arrived in the United States prior to 1920. Donn E. Rosen married Carmela Berritto, and they had three sons, one of whom, Philip Clark Rosen (1955-2020) was a herpetologist and ecologist, who spent many years studying the

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Works

Rosen earned his degree in 1955, his master's in 1957, and his doctorate in 1959, all from

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. In 1961 he joined the staff of the

, and was chairman of the department of ichthyology from 1965 to 1975, presiding over a collection that grew from 500,000 to 1.5 million specimens. Rosen was awarded the Frederick Stoye Award for Ichthyology from the

in 1952 and 1954, the Leidy Medal of the

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in 1967, and served as president of the Society of Systematic Zoology from 1975 to 1977. Rosen authored over twenty-eight scientific papers, and described twenty-three species.

Selected publications

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Legacy

Species named after Rosen

*The Ricefish ''

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'' Parenti & Soeroto, 2004. (Adrianichthyidae) *'' Brachyrhaphis roseni'' W. A. Bussing, 1988, (Poeciliidae) *'' Curimata roseni''

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, 1984 (Curimatidae) *The eel '' Meadia roseni'' H. K. Mok, C. Y. Lee & H. J. Chan, 1991 is named after him. (Synaphobranchidae) *'' Rakthamichthys roseni'' ( R. M. Bailey & Gans, 1998) (Synbranchidae) *'' Sternarchorhynchus roseni'' Mago-Leccia, 1994 (Rosen's tube-snouted ghost knifefish) (Apteronotidae) *'' Xiphophorus roseni'' M. K. Meyer & Wischnath, 1981 (Poeciliidae)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosen, Donn Eric Scientists from New York City New York University alumni American ichthyologists 1929 births 1986 deaths 20th-century American zoologists