Albert Eide Parr

Albert Eide Parr (15 August 1900 – 16 July 1991) was an American marine biologist, zoologist and oceanographer.

He became well acquainted with Jørgen Brunchorst, director at the Bergen Museum and developed an early interest in marine biology.

This segued into the founding of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

From 1938 to 1942, Parr was director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and was associated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a researcher and board member.

[3][7] In 1925, he was married to Ella Hage Hanssen (1900–1991), daughter of Peder Hansen, who was a member of the Parliament of Norway.