Carl Gans (7 September 1923 – 30 November 2009) was a German-born American zoologist and herpetologist.
[1] While a teenager in 1939, he was able to escape Nazi Germany by fleeing to the United States, where he completed his education.
[1] He attended George Washington High School in New York City.
From 1958 to 1971 he taught biology at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
[5] Gans was editor of the Biology of the Reptilia a 23-volume work published from 1969 to 2009.