Claude E. ZoBell was born in 1904, one of a pioneer] 

 I family of eight living in upper Snake River Valley, Idaho. 

 After receiving his credentials as a teacher, he was prin- 

 cipal of an elementary school in Rigby, Idaho, for two 

 years. He received the B.S. degree from the Utah State 

 Agricultural College in 1927 a7id took the M.S. degree in I 

 1929. As Thompson Scholar he obtained his Ph.D. degree 

 \at the University of California in 1931. He served as re- \ 

 search associate at Hooper Foundation for Medical Re- 

 j search for a few months prior to taking charge of the re- 

 isearch program in marine microbiology at the Scripps la- 

 \stitution of Oceanography. He studied the metabolism of 

 llakesfor a year as a special investigator at the University of \ 

 \ Wisconsin in 1938-39. During the summer of 1939 he 

 theld a post-doctorate fellowship at Woods Hole Oceano- 

 \ graphic Institution. Since 19^2 he has been Associate 

 \ Professor of Marine Microbiology and Assistant to the 

 \ Director at Scripps Institution and Director of Research 

 \ Project 43 A of the American Petroleum Institute. His 

 scientific publications number more than a hundred, in- 

 cluding ten papers on the metabolism of the Brucella, about 

 thirty on bacterial physiology, and nearly fifty on the 

 broader aspects of the bacteriology of the ocean and lakes, i 

 Many of the latter papers are listed in the bibliography of I 

 this volume. Some of his more important contributions f 

 have been the relation of bacteria to solid surfaces, the role 

 of microorganisms in the fouling of submerged surfaces, I 

 description of over sixty new species of marine bacteria, and \ 

 the importance of bacteria in the formation and transforma- 

 \tion of petroleum hydrocarboris. He is an active memberl 

 \ of the following professional societies: A.A.A.S., Amer.\ 

 Biol. Soc, Amer. Assoc. Univ. Prof, Amer. Micro. Soc, 

 \Ecol. Soc. Amer. (Vice-president 1942), Limnological] 

 Soc. Amer., Oceanographic Soc. of the Pacific, Phi Kappa 

 \Phi, San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. {President 1943), Sigma 

 \Xi, Soc. Ayner. Bad. {President S. Calif. Section 1944-\ 

 45), Soc. Exper. Biol. <& Med., and West. Soc. Natural- 

 lists. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Bull. 

 Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., Univ. of Calif. Publ. in Micro- 

 biology, Jour. Ind. Biol., and Scripps Inst. Records of \ 

 Observations. He has served as a board member of the San 

 Diego Biological Research Institute, Sa7i Diego Clinical 

 Lab. Association, the La Jolla Visiting Nurse Association, 

 the San Diego Scientific Library Association, and the 

 California Alumni Association {President S. Calif. Sec- 

 \ tion 1942-43). He was an honorary member of the Byrd 

 Antarctic Expedition II, sometime Distinguished Lec- 

 turer for the Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., and Sigma Xi 

 lecturer at several different institutions. 



