Ralph Morris Buchsbaum (January 2, 1907 – February 11, 2002) was an American zoologist, invertebrate biologist, and ecologist.
His book Animals Without Backbones, first published in 1938, was the first textbook in biology to be reviewed by Time and featured in Life.
Buchsbaum married Mildred Shaffer (University of Chicago SB 1932, SM 1933).
Ralph and Mildred Buchsbaum were the first to create chimeras between the green alga Chlorella and chick fibroblast cells (Science 80: 408-409, 1934).
He worked closely with Harold Urey to find a way to use the ratio of oxygen isotopes to determine temperatures in previous eras (Bull.
[8][9] Ralph Buchsbaum wrote or co-wrote at least fourteen books.,[9] including these: Edited: Buchsbaum made twenty-nine educational films for the Encyclopædia Britannica Education Corporation and supplied photographs and photomicrographs for them.