Bleakney, J. Sherman

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Bleakney, J. Sherman

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      • John Sherman Bleakley

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      1928-2019

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      John Sherman Bleakley was born in 1928 to Ruby Isadore Mitchell and Guy Garfield Bleakley in Corning, New York. He spent his early childhood in Boston where his father was a Baptist minister, but his family moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia before Bleakley began high school. He was educated at Acadia University where he hearned a B.Sc. (1949) and a M.Sc. (1951) and from McGill University with a Ph.D. (1956.) In 1957, Bleakley returned to Acadia University to work as a biology professor.

      Bleakley’s main area of research was on sea turtles. But, the discovery of a sea slug on the Minas Basin mudflats peaked his research interest, and he morphed into a marine invertebrate zoologist specializing in nudibranchs, i.e. sea slugs. This research took the family for a year to the U.K. and Europe in the 1960s, where Sherman worked in marine labs in England, France and Scandinavia.

      Bleakley’s sea slug collection were eventually donated to the ROM, and his research to the ROM Archives.

      Bleakley passed away in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 2019 at the age of 91.

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      http://viaf.org/viaf/272498614

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      2/17/2023 E. Thomas (Creation)
      5/29/2023 E. Thomas (VIAF added)

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