Donald Rusk Currey

Male, Deceased Person

1934 – 2004

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Who was Donald Rusk Currey?

Donald Rusk Currey, Ph.D. was an American professor of geography. While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in 1964.

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Born
1934
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Kansas
Died
Jun 6, 2004

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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