Paul W. Oman
American entomologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Wilson Oman was an American entomologist and a specialist on leafhopper taxonomy. Paul Oman was born in Kansas in 1908 and was educated at Garnett high school, the University of Kansas and the George Washington University . His MA thesis was titled A generic revision of American Bythoscopinae and South American Jassinae and his PhD work from George Washington University was on The Nearctic Leafhoppers , a generic classification and checklist which was reviewed by Z.P. Metcalf who called it was "one of the most outstanding recent contributions to the stufy of one of the most difficult families of the Homoptera." In 1930, Oman joined the United States Department of Agriculture as a Junior Entomologist with the Taxonomic unit of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. Specializing in the study of insects as vectors of plant diseases, Oman worked for the U.S.D.A. Entomology Research Division before taking a position at Oregon State University in 1967 to work as a Professor for the Entomology Dept. In 1973, Oman was appointed chairman of the department and two years later, he became Professor Emeritus.
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