ABSTRACT
Professor Wilbur was born in New York, and following his doctoral degree at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the Zoology Department of Duke University in 1946. He became a James B. Duke Professor in 1961. His major interest in research was the physiology of mineralization, primarily in molluscs. Professor Wilbur was an eminent cell physiologist. In addition to many scientific papers, Professor Wilbur is best remembered for coediting the classical volume The Physiology of Mollusca and being Editor-inChief of the series The Mollusca, published by then Academic Press. One of Professor Wilbur’s
long-time collaborators was Professor Norimitsu Watabe of the University of South Carolina. Together they published many articles that made a significant advancement to the field of biomineralization.
