Eugenie Clark

Born: May 4, 1922; New York City, USA
Fields of study: Ichthyology, marine biology, oceanography
A native New Yorker, Clark received the Ph.D. from New York University in 1950, having done graduate study at both the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Woods Hole Marine Biological Station prior to completing her doctorate. She served as an oceanographic chemist on an expedition to the Philippines in 1946. She recounted some of her oceanographic research in Lady with a Spear (1953), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Continuing to pursue her work with sharks, she contributed to P. W. Gilbert’s Sharks and Survival (1963) and published The Lady and the Sharks (1969). She has made nearly twenty trips to the Red Sea to pursue her research.