Murray Newman

Murray A. Newman (1924 – March 18, 2016) was an American-born Canadian public aquarium director, curator and zoologist. He served as the founding director of the Vancouver Aquarium for 37 years, from 1955 until his retirement in 1993. Newman oversaw the opening of the Vancouver Aquarium in June 1956. He was hired as a museum zoologist as the University of California, Los Angeles after he completed his master's degree at Berkeley. He met his wife, Katherine, while teaching at UCLA. Katherine had enrolled as the only woman in a fish biology course, despite being warned that the professor disliked teaching women. She met Murray Newman, who was working as an assistant to the biology professor, during the course.