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Erik Jarvik (146 words) |
 | Anders Erik Wilhelm Jarvik (30 November 1907 - January 11, 1998) was a Swedish palaeozoologist who worked on ichthyostega, one of the first fish to develop limbs. |
| Jarvik was born at a farm in Utby in Westrogothia, and matriculated in 1927 at Uppsala University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1942 with the dissertation On the structure of the snout of Crossopterygians and lower Gnathostomes in general. |
| He participated in the Greenland expedition of Professor Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh in 1932 and was appointed assistant in the Department of Palaeozoology of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in 1937; he eventually succeeded Erik Stensiö as professor and head of the department in 1960, retiring in 1972. |
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