Fred Iltis
Czech-American professor of entomology
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- PhD Entomology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fred Iltis was an American entomologist. His research focused on the biosystematics and life cycle of mosquitoes. Life and work Iltis was born on April 20, 1923 Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was born Wilfred Gregor Iltis to Anni and Hugo Iltis, a botanist and geneticist who was a life sciences teacher at the German-language gymnasium of Brno. His father was also the first biographer of Gregor Mendel and a vocal opponent of Nazi "racial science". In the fall of 1938, the Iltis family was granted visas to enter the United States thanks to the intercession of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, along with affidavits of endorsement from Albert Einstein and Franz Boas. In January 1939, when Hitler's military was preparing the invasion of Czechoslovakia, fifteen-year-old Wilfred escaped with his mother and his younger brother Hugh on a harrowing train ride that traversed Nazi Germany to France. During a midnight stop at the Stuttgart station, Gestapo officers combed the train, removing ten passengers; the Iltises survived because the boys pretended to be asleep while their mother bluffed that she was the wife of a French diplomat. In Cherbourg, they were joined by Hugo Iltis and boarded the passenger ship RMS Aquitania for the Atlantic crossing. They settled in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where Hugo Iltis was soon appointed to a professorship in biology at Mary Washington College.
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