George Bornemissza
Hungarian–Australian entomologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Francis Bornemissza was a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist. He studied science at the University of Budapest before obtaining his Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in 1950. At the end of that year, he emigrated to Australia. There he first worked in the Department of Zoology at the University of Western Australia for 3 years, before pursuing a career with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation . Bornemissza was known for his work on the Australian Dung Beetle Project while working at CSIRO's Division of Entomology. He wrote scientific papers and books based on his research and contributed a collection of mounted beetle specimens to the Australian National Insect Collection and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. In 2001 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to Australian entomology.
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- Australian dung beetle project, 1965-1975 (1976) (80)
- Effects of Clearfell Harvesting on Lucanid Beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) in Wet and Dry Sclerophyll Forests in Tasmania (1999) (35)
- [Prof Józsa Ladányi 80 years old]. (1978) (1)
- [Péan and his accomplishments]. (1980) (0)
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