Gerhardt Laves (15/7/1906–14/3/1993) portrait

Gerhardt Laves, as a University of Chicago postgraduate student, spent 1929-1931 in fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages.
His extensive collection of good quality material, almost all unpublished, has been preserved and in recent years has had considerable use.

NB: The family pronounce the surname [ˈlavəs]