Laurence M. Klauber (1883 in San Diego, California 3 Mathematics
1968), was an American herpetologist, and was considered to be the foremost authority on rattlesnakes. He was Klauber is thought to have proposed Ulams spiral, an imalso a businessman, inventor, and may have been the rst portant diagram in which prime numbers tend to form to make an important discovery in mathematics. diagonal lines, more than thirty years before Ulam, the mathematician credited with its invention.[1]
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Businessman and inventor
[1] Pegg, Jr., Ed (July 17, 2006). Prime generating polynomials. Math Games. Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
Before becoming a herpetologist, Klauber worked for
many years the San Diego Gas & Electric Company. He worked his way up in the company from an electric sign salesman, to become president, then chairman and CEO of the whole company. He also held 7 U.S. patents for his electrical inventions.
San Diego Natural History Museum: Laurence M.
Klauber Shaw, Charles E. (1969). Laurence Monroe Klauber, 1883-1968. Copeia 1969 (2): 417419. JSTOR 1442107.
Herpetology
In 1923 the newly opened San Diego Zoo asked Klauber
to identify several species of snake they acquired. Even though reptiles were not much more than a hobby to him at the time, he took the job and eventually became Curator of Reptiles at the zoo. In that position, he dedicated the following 35 years of his life to the study of reptiles, and rattlesnakes in particular. The end result of that incredible amount of time and amassed data was his magnum opus, a two volume set of books entitled Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories and Inuence on Mankind, which he published in 1956. It is still considered to be the most complete and authoritative resource ever written on rattlesnakes. In his research and eld work, he is credited with identifying 53 new taxa of reptiles and amphibians (such as Arizona elegans candida, Chionactis palarostris, Pituophis catenifer pumilis, and Charina bottae umbratica) and has been recognized by his fellow herpetologists by having had 14 new taxa named after him (such as Crotalus lepidus klauberi, Ensatina eschscholtzii klauberi, Hypsiglena torquata klauberi, and Sphaerodactylus klauberi). He donated approximately 36,000 specimens to the San Diego Natural History Museum, and his personal library and notes were donated there upon his death. 1
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