David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.
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Born into a farm family of Gainesville, New York, he entered the newly-established Cornell University as an undergraduate in 1866, and received a master's degree in 1872; he was an instructor in botany at Cornell beginning in 1870.
He then moved to Indianapolis and acquired an MD from Indiana Medical College (1875), after lecturing in 1874 on The following are named after him The genera Jordania Starks, 1895, Davidijordania Popov, 1931, and Jordanella Goode & Bean, 1879 are named after him. Species named after him include:
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