Norman Everett Kemp
Norman Everett Kemp, a former faculty member in the Department of Zoology, died Jan. 8. He was 86.
Mr. Kemp was born June 20, 1916, in Otisfield, Maine, to John and Marian Foster Kemp. He graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, in 1933 and from Bates College in 1937. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1941.
In 1942 he married Ruth Robinson. She survives him, as does his brother, J. Stanley Kemp, and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Kemp entered the Army Medical Corps in 1941 and served until 1945. Mr. Kemp was discharged from the Reserves with the rank of major. He did a postdoctoral year at Yale University, then taught for a year at Wayne State University before joining the faculty of the U-M Department of Zoology, where he served from 1947-86.
He was an experimental embryologist and an early electron microscopist who worked primarily on amphibians and fish. He was a recognized expert on calcification and shark development. Mr. Kemp spent sabbaticals in Hawaii and Plymouth, England. He worked at the Eniwetok Biological Laboratory and was active at the laboratories at Woods Hole and Mt. Desert Island.
Mr. Kemp served for many years as the secretary of the Michigan Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
At his request, no memorial service will be held.
