Walter Narchi
Walter Narchi (September 2, 1929, in São Paulo – June 23, 2004, in São Paulo) was a Brazilian marine biologist. He mainly researched the anatomy of bivalvia and from 1960 to 2004 wrote over 60 papers, some with original descriptions of new species of this class. Life and accomplishments Scientific career Walter Narchi studied natural history at the University of São Paulo from 1951 to 1954. From 1955 to 1960 he studied foraminifera and in 1960 he graduated with the thesis Sobre Lagenidae e Nodosariidae recentes do Brasil (Foraminifera) (On extant Lagenidae and Nodosariidae of Brazil). His doctorate was supervised by the German scientist of Jewish ancestry Ernst Marcus (1893–1968), who emigrated to Brazil in 1936 with his wife Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus. In 1967, Narchi was invited as a visiting scientist by the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. From January to December 1967, he conducted research at the Pacific Marine Station, Dillon Beach, Marin County, California, where he was assisted by Director Edmund H. Smith. Back in Brazil, Narchi accepted Paulo Sawaya's invitation in 1968 to found and oversee the zoology department of the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de Rio Claro, today Universidade Estadual Paulista,