Thomas Park (November 17, 1908 – March 30, 1992) was an American zoologist, recognized for transforming the field of ecology into a science with quantification and controlled experiments.
He was a professor at the University of Chicago and served in 1960 as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[1] Park was born in Danville, Illinois, and was raised there, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and in Chicago.
He attended the University of Chicago, earning a bachelor's degree in 1930 and a doctorate in zoology in 1932.
He studied on a Rockefeller fellowship at Oxford University in 1948 and served briefly as a scientific attache in the United States Embassy in London in 1949.