George Alfred Baitsell

George Alfred Baitsell
Officers and senior officials of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1947. Left to right, standing: Sinnott, Baitsell, Payne, Lark-Horovitz, Miles, Stakman, sitting: Carlson, Mather, Moulton, Shapley.
Born	1885 Iowa
Died	(1971-09-24)September 24, 1971 Winter Park, Florida
Education	B.S. Central University of Iowa 1908, M.A. Yale University 1909
Alma mater	Yale University
Spouse	Dorothy Morton Horning (1885-1967)
Children	John Morton, a daughter of unknown name
Scientific career
Fields	Biology
Institutions	Yale University
Thesis	Experiments on the reproduction of the Hypotrichous Infusoria  (1914)

George Alfred Baitsell (1885 – September 24, 1971) was an American biologist. He was Professor of biology at Yale University. He was an official of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and published several science books.

Publications

• The evolution of man, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1922
• Manual of animal biology, New York, Macmillan, 1932
• Human biology, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1940
• Science in progress, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1949 (editor)
• The Centennial of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University Press, 1950 (editor)

Family

George Alfred Baitsell was the first son of John Albert Baitsell (1847-1929) and Amanda Clammer (1859-1936); he had a sister, Bessie (died in 1887 three weeks after her birth), and two brothers, John Merrill (1889-1905), and Carl Merrill (born 1891). He and his wife Dorothy Morton Horning (1885-1967) had a son, John Morton, and a daughter.

External links

• Baitsell, George Alfred at WorldCat
• Baitsell, George Alfred at HathiTrust
• Baitsell, George Alfred at Smithsonian Institution
• Portraits at hpsrepository.asu.edu: 1925, undated