Raymond B. Huey
Raymond Brunson Huey (born September 14, 1944) is an American biologist who studies how animals adapt to their environments. He specializes in evolutionary physiology and has taught at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University under E. E. Williams.
Huey’s education and career include attending Deep Springs College, earning an AB with honors in Zoology from UC Berkeley in 1966, and getting an MA in Zoology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1966, where he worked with Eric R. Pianka. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1975 and later served as the chair of the UW biology department. A retirement celebration was held on October 4, 2013, in Seattle.
His awards and honors include the 1991 Distinguished Herpetologist Award from the Herpetologists League, a 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship in Organismic Biology & Ecology, election as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2017, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
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