Dr. Leonard P. Schultz (1901-1986)
- Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 1932
- M.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., 1926
- A.B., Albion College, Albion, Michigan, U.S.A., 1924
In 1928 up until 1936, Dr. Schultz taught at the College of Fisheries at University of Washington. In 1936, he was appointed as an assistant curator at the Division of Fishes of the United States National Museum. During the same year he joined Smithsonian Institution, where he remained until retirement in 1968. While in retirement, he continued to work as a Research Associate of the Division of Fishes. He was Zoologist Emeritus for the Smithsonian until his death in 1986.
Excerpt from Smithsonian Obituary:
"Perhaps most significantly, he was one of the scientists sent to work with the U.S. Navy on Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests conducted at the Bikini Atoll in 1946. Schultz and his colleagues were responsible for making collections of the flora and fauna of the Marshall Islands region before and after the tests. He returned to the area in 1947 as part of the Bikini Resurvey to make further collections. The fishes that they collected at that time constitute one of the more significant additions to the national collections during the twentieth century."