Milton Fingerman—50 Years of Crustacean Endocrinology1

This symposium was organized to honor the career of Professor Milton Fingerman. Every discipline has its leaders, individuals who through insight and persistence move their field forward. Milt Fingerman is such an individual, one who has had a lasting impact on the field of crustacean endocrinology. In addition, Milt's tireless efforts have benefited the greater scientific enterprise, including the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology and the Crustacean Society. Born in Boston, Milt attended Boston College as an undergraduate, and then went to Northwestern University for his Ph.D. His professional interest in crustaceans began during this period, when he joined the laboratory of Frank Brown and spent summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. After a two-year stint with the U.S. Army at Fort Detrick Md., Milt joined the faculty at Tulane University in 1954. Milt retired from its Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2000, after having served as chair of the department for 13 yr. Milt also served as the Managing Editor of the American Zoologist for 15 yr, and has been an editorial board member of 8 journals and associate editor of two journals. Milt's career has been distinguished by an enormous productivity. At the time of the symposium, he had published more than 325 papers or book chapters, two books, and over 120 abstracts. His contributions to the field of crustacean endocrinology have been broad, and have covered nearly all areas of crustacean biology and physiology—color changes (Fingerman, 1966), reproduction (Fingerman, 1997), molting (Fingerman et al. , 1996), eye pigment movements (Fingerman et al. , 1959), regeneration (Fingerman et al. …