Adrianus Kalmijn, a pioneer in studying sharks’ “sixth sense,” died on December 7, 2021. He was 88 years old and passed away from acute myeloid leukemia in a hospital in La Jolla, California, his son Jelger Kalmijn tells The San Diego Union-Tribune.
According to an obituary by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, his wife Vera Kalmijn describes his research and life philosophy as adhering to Faraday’s principle to “remove error and discover truth.”
Kalmijn was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands on November 7, 1933. His father was a math teacher and his mother was a children’s book author, according to the Union-Tribune. After high school, he served in the military for about three years and then went on to study at Utrecht University, eventually joining the university’s faculty.
In 1971, he published what would become one of his most recognized research contributions, a study on the ...
