George Eber MacGinitie (5 April 1889 – 6 September 1989) was an American marine biologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
He went to graduate AB at Fresno State College where his older brother, the paleobotanist Harry Dunlap MacGinitie (1896-1987) also went to.
In 1926 he moved to Stanford University for his master's and began to study the shores of Monterey Bay and his thesis on Ecological aspects of Elkhorn Slough was produced in 1927.
[1] He married Nettie Lorene Murray, another marine biologist on 19 February 1927 at Fresno and they conducted research together.
[2] In 1949 the couple published Natural History of Marine Animals.