Raymond Lindeman

Raymond Laurel Lindeman
Born	1915 near Redwood Falls, Minnesota
Died	June 29, 1942 New Haven, CT
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Limnology, paleolimnology, trophic ecology
Institutions	Yale University
Alma mater	University of Minnesota
Doctoral advisor	Samuel Eddy
Known for	Pioneering the concept of trophic dynamics in ecology

Raymond Laurel Lindeman (1915 – June 29, 1942) was an ecologist whose graduate research is often credited with being a seminal study in field of ecosystem ecology. He completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota with his thesis work being concerned with the history and ecological dynamics of Cedar Bog Lake, located in what is known today as the University of Minnesota's Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in central Minnesota. While a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University with noted limnologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Lindeman submitted a chapter of his thesis for publication in the journal Ecology that outlined the Ten percent law. His manuscript was initially rejected for its generalisations but was published after Hutchinson and others were able to convince the editor of the paper's merits. This publication appeared in 1942, shortly after Lindeman's death caused by a rare form of hepatitis.

An annual award in Lindeman's honor is given by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography to the outstanding paper written that year by a young aquatic scientist. Raymond L. Lindeman is also honored today with a lecture series in his name in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, as well as an informative plaque on the same University's Wall of Discovery.

Papers published by Raymond L. Lindeman during his brief lifetime.

Biographical and historical studies on Raymond L. Lindeman.

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