Gordon Enoch Gates

Gordon Enoch Gates (11 January 1897 – 11 June 1987) was an American zoologist.

Gates was born in Warner, New Hampshire, in 1897. He graduated from Colby College in 1919.^[1] From 1921 to 1941, he served as the head of Biology Department at Judson College in Burma. Then, from 1941 to 1946 he became a professor of biology at Rangoon College. he was a fellow at Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1946 to 1947, followed by being a Professor of Biology at Colby College from 1948 to 1950. He then became a guggenheim fellow from 1951 to 1952. His main focus was the morphology, physiology, taxonomy, and zoogeography of earthworms, a collection of which he donated to the National Museum of Natural History. He retired from his position in 1952.^[2]

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