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#16951

Myron Gordon

1899 - 1959 (60 years)

Myron Gordon was an American biologist and geneticist and became an expert on platy fish Xiphophorus while using them for his pioneering cancer research, starting in the late 1920s. Early papers were published while still a graduate student at Cornell University, but he is best known for his research at New York University and the New York Zoological Society .

#16952

Douglas Vernon Hubble

1900 - 1981 (81 years)

Sir Douglas Vernon Hubble was a paediatric endocrinologist, general practitioner, and professor of paediatrics and dean of medicine at the University of Birmingham. Hubble was principally notable for research into paediatric endocrinology and publishing a number of papers on the subject, which gave him a national reputation.

#16953

Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland

1892 - 1969 (77 years)

Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland was an American zoologist and protistologist, famous for giving the first, strong empirical proof for the existence of a symbiotic relationship between internal microorganisms and their metazoan host.

#16954

Philip Sheppard

1921 - 1976 (55 years)

Professor Philip MacDonald Sheppard, F.R.S. was a British geneticist and lepidopterist. He made advances in ecological and population genetics in lepidopterans, pulmonate land snails and humans. In medical genetics, he worked with Sir Cyril Clarke on Rh disease.

#16955

Hans Thacher Clarke

1887 - 1972 (85 years)

Hans Thacher Clarke was a prominent biochemist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in England where he received his university training, but also studied in Germany and Ireland. He spent the remainder of his life in the United States.

#16956

Beatrice M. Sweeney

1914 - 1989 (75 years)

Eleanor Beatrice Marcy "Beazy" Sweeney was an American plant physiologist and a pioneering investigator into circadian rhythms. At the time of her death she was professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she had worked since 1961.

#16957

Tracy I. Storer

Tracy I. Storer

1889 - 1973 (84 years)

Tracy Irwin Storer was an American zoologist known for his contributions to the wildlife of California and the ecology of the Sierra Nevada. He was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Davis for over 30 years. He served as president of several biological societies, including the Cooper Ornithological Club , Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Society of Mammalogists, and the Wildlife Society, and was a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences which in 1968 awarded him the Fellow's Medal, the academy's highest honor.

#16958

Willi Hennig

1913 - 1976 (63 years)

Emil Hans Willi Hennig was a German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans .

#16959

Donovan Stewart Correll

1908 - 1983 (75 years)

Donovan "Don" Stewart Correll was an American botanist, plant collector, and plant taxonomist, specializing in orchids. Biography Correll grew up in North Carolina. For two years, before entering college, he took voice lessons and sang solos in church and on radio. He also spent a year doing various jobs in Florida. At Duke University, he graduated with A.B. in 1934, A.M. in 1936, and Ph.D. in 1939. Some of his doctoral work was done at Harvard University, where he worked under the orchidologist Oakes Ames, who introduced him to economic botany. At Harvard, Correll was financially assisted by the Anna C.

#16960

Adriance S. Foster

1901 - 1973 (72 years)

Adriance Sherwood Foster was an American botanist known for his studies of plant anatomy. The first plant anatomist at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a two-time recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as president of the Botanical Society of America and the International Society of Plant Morphologists. His textbooks Practical Plant Anatomy and Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants were widely adopted and influential. Foster was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, August 6, 1901, and earned a B.S. at Cornell in 1923, followed by a master's and doctorate at Harvard under Irving W.

#16961

Raymond B. Cowles

1896 - 1975 (79 years)

Raymond Bridgman Cowles was a herpetologist and professor at University of California, Los Angeles. Born in the British Colony of Natal to American missionary parents, he emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. He attended Pomona College as an undergrad and earned his PhD at Cornell University under Albert Hazen Wright. He is known for his research on desert ecology and reptile thermoregulation, as well as his popular books on environmental conservation. Cowles died of a heart attack in 1975 at the age of 79. An obituary called him one of America's first ecologists and conservatio...

#16962

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

1925 - 1983 (58 years)

Margaret Belle Dayhoff was an American physical chemist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics. Dayhoff was a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and a noted research biochemist at the National Biomedical Research Foundation, where she pioneered the application of mathematics and computational methods to the field of biochemistry. She dedicated her career to applying the evolving computational technologies to support advances in biology and medicine, most notably the creation of protein and nucleic acid databases and tools to interrogate the databases. She originated one of the first substitution matrices, point accepted mutations .

#16963

Martin Grotjahn

1904 - 1990 (86 years)

Martin Grotjahn was a German-born American psychoanalyst who was known for his contributions to the field of psychoanalysis. He was the son of doctor Alfred Grotjahn and was born in Berlin, Germany.

#16964

Henry Shoemaker Conard

1874 - 1971 (97 years)

Henry Shoemaker Conard was a leading authority on bryophytes and water lilies, as well as an early advocate of environmental preservation. From 1906 to 1955, Professor Conard worked at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. In 1954, he became the first to receive the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America, an award that has continued annually ever since.

#16965

Albert Kluyver

1888 - 1956 (68 years)

Albert Jan Kluyver ForMemRS was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist. Career In 1926, Kluyver and Hendrick Jean Louis Donker published the now classic paper, "Die Einheit in der Biochemie" . The paper helped establish Kluyver's vision that, at a biochemical level, all organisms are unified. Kluyver famously expressed the idea with the aphorism: "From elephant to butyric acid bacterium – it is all the same". The paper, and other work from Kluyver's lab, helped support both the concept of biochemical unity as well as the idea of "comparative biochemistry", which Kluyver envisioned as biochemically equivalent to comparative anatomy.

#16966

Frederick Adolph Wolf

1885 - 1975 (90 years)

Frederick Adolph Wolf was an American plant pathologist and mycologist. F.A. Wolf was known for his contributions to the understanding of fungal and bacterial diseases of tobacco, which he explored both domestically and globally. His most renowned contributions were his two-volume work “The Fungi” which served as a reference and textbook for fungal morphological and evolutionary studies for several years and his “Tobacco Disease and Decays” book.

#16967

Everett Stanley Luttrell

1916 - 1988 (72 years)

Everett Stanley Luttrell was an American mycologist and plant pathologist at the University of Georgia's Georgia Experiment Station and main campus.He served as the DW Brooks Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia from in 1978 to 1986. Luttrell was particularly known for his work on the classification of perithecial ascomycetes and Helminthosporium.

#16968

J. F. Gates Clarke

1905 - 1990 (85 years)

John Frederick Gates Clarke was a Canadian-American entomologist and an authority on moths. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. External links

#16969

James Gray

1891 - 1975 (84 years)

Sir James Gray, was a British zoologist who helped establish the field of cytology. Gray was also known for his work in animal locomotion and the development of experimental zoology. He is known for Gray's Paradox concerning dolphin locomotion.

#16970

August Thienemann

August Thienemann

1882 - 1960 (78 years)

August Friedrich Thienemann was a German limnologist, zoologist and ecologist. He studied zoology at the University of Greifswald. He was an associate Professor of Hydrobiology at the University of Kiel, and director of the former Hydrobiologische Anstalt der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft at Plön.

#16971

Herschel L. Roman

1914 - 1989 (75 years)

Herschel Lewis Roman was a geneticist famous for popularizing the use of yeast in genetic research. Biography Roman was born in Szumsk in eastern Poland on September 29, 1914. His father had moved to the United States, intending to bring Herschel and his mother, but they were not able to travel until 1921 because of World War I. After that, he spent his early years in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, then in St. Louis, where they had sent Herschel in advance to provide him with an urban high school education. He enrolled at the University of Missouri in 1932 and, majoring in chemistry and minoring in physics, graduated in 1936.

#16972

Horace Waring

1910 - 1980 (70 years)

Horace Waring was an English/Australian zoologist, winner of the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1962. Waring was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, and was educated at the University of Liverpool . He was appointed the head of the department of zoology at the University of Birmingham in 1946. On 1 May 1948, Waring was appointed professor of zoology at the University of Western Australia.

#16973

Léon Croizat

1894 - 1982 (88 years)

Léon Camille Marius Croizat was a French-Italian scholar and botanist who developed an orthogenetic synthesis of evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he called panbiogeography. Life Croizat was born in Torino, Italy to Vittorio Croizat and Maria Chaley, who had emigrated to Turin from Chambéry, France. In spite of his great aptitude for the natural sciences, Leon studied and received a degree in law from the University of Turin.

#16974

George C. Wheeler

1897 - 1991 (94 years)

George Carlos Wheeler was an entomologist who specialized in the study of ants. Career life Early life Wheeler was born in 1897. He attended the Rice Institute in Texas, U.S.A., and worked under Julian Sorell Huxley and Hermann J. Muller. He received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1918, after which he attended the Bussey Institution of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied entomology and earned a Master of Science degree in 1920, and a D.Sc. in 1921.

#16975

Robert Bennett Bean

1874 - 1944 (70 years)

Robert Bennett Bean was an associate professor of anatomy and ethnologist adept to craniometry and the concept of "race", whose scientific work was discredited by his mentor but who nonetheless became a professor at the University of Virginia and remained so until his death.

#16976

Melville Hatch

1898 - 1988 (90 years)

Melville Harrison Hatch was an American entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles. His long career at the University of Washington was highlighted by the publication of the seminal, five-volume work Beetles of the Pacific Northwest. Hatch is responsible for the identification and naming of 13 species.

#16977

Truman G. Yuncker

Truman G. Yuncker

1891 - 1964 (73 years)

Truman George Yuncker was a taxonomic botanist best known for his work in the family Piperaceae. Yuncker first taught at Manual High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. After service in World War I, he received his doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1919. Soon after, he became a faculty member at DePauw University and became head of the botany and bacteriology department in 1921 and held that post until retirement in 1956. During his tenure he described 839 new species, 211 new varieties and 25 new formae in the Piperaceae. He wrote the treatment of that family in almost every regional flora published during his lifetime.

#16978

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks

1888 - 1981 (93 years)

Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks was a cellular biologist best known for her 1932 discovery that the staining compound methylene blue is an antidote to carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning. She held a PhD in zoology and spent her professional career working as a researcher at the United States Public Health Service and the University of California, Berkeley.

#16979

Marion Webster

1921 - 1985 (64 years)

Marion Elizabeth Webster-Bukovsky was a Canadian-American biochemist who was the first to isolate the Vi antigen of typhoid and to determine its structure. She published extensively on the kinin–kallikrein system while at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Webster was an advocate for women in science and served as president of the Association for Women in Science and Graduate Women in Science.

#16980

Edwin Butterworth Mains

Edwin Butterworth Mains

1890 - 1968 (78 years)

Edwin Butterworth Mains was an American mycologist. He was known for his taxonomic research on the rust fungi , the genus Cordyceps, and the earth tongues . Biography Edwin Butterworth Mains was born on 31 March 1890 in Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan. The son of Benjamin W. and Mary Ann Mains. Mains began his undergraduate education at Michigan State University in 1909, but transferred to the University of Michigan in 1911. He earned his Ph.D. in botany from the University of Michigan in 1916 under the tutelage of Calvin Henry Kauffman while investigating the parasite-host relationships of various rust fungi.

#16981

Marjorie Roloff Stetten

1916 - 1983 (67 years)

Marjorie Roloff Stetten was an American biochemist whose carbohydrate metabolism research led to the advancements in biomedical knowledge of enzymes and biosynthesis and the discovery of AICA ribonucleotide. During her career, she was an investigator at the National Institutes of Health and a research professor of experimental medicine at Rutgers Medical School.

#16982

Harold Kirby

1900 - 1952 (52 years)

Harold Kirby, Jr. was a Canadian-American zoologist and protistologist, who was the chair of U. C. Berkeley's department of zoology from 1948 to 1952. Kirby immigrated in 1903 with his family to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1933. He received in 1922 his B.S. from Emory University and then in 1923 his M.A. and in 1925 his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley. C. A. Kofoid was the advisor for his doctoral dissertation. From 1925 to 1928 Kirby was an instructor in biology at Yale University. At U. C. Berkeley's zoology department, he was from 1928 to 1931 an assistant professor, fr...

#16983

Vadim Dmitrij Vladykov

1898 - 1986 (88 years)

#16984

Arthur H. Steinhaus

1897 - 1970 (73 years)

Arthur H Steinhaus was an American physical fitness expert and sports physiologist. Biography Arthur H [no middle name] Steinhaus was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 4, 1897. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in zoology and physiology and his B.P.E. and M.P.E. from George Williams College in physical education .

#16985

Roman Kenk

1898 - 1988 (90 years)

Roman Kenk was a Slovenian, later American, zoologist. Life Roman Kenk received his PhD degree in zoology at the University of Graz, Austria, in 1921, and worked at the University of Ljubljana. From 1931 to 1932, and again in the summer of 1933, Kenk stayed at the University of Virginia, USA, where he met Ada Antonio Blanco, who had come from Puerto Rico. They married in 1933 and returned to Ljubljana, where they stayed for 5 years and then moved to Puerto Rico. Four years later, in 1942, Kenk became a naturalized American citizen.

#16986

Mary Dora Rogick

Mary Dora Rogick

1906 - 1964 (58 years)

Mary Dora Rogick was an American zoologist. In 1935 she joined the College of New Rochelle in New York, where she spent her career as a professor and researcher. She was a specialist in the taxonomy and ecology of bryozoa, a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals.

#16987

Hans Grüneberg

1907 - 1982 (75 years)

Hans Grüneberg , whose name was also written as Hans Grueneberg and Hans Gruneberg, was a British geneticist. Grüneberg was born in Wuppertal–Elberfeld in Germany. He obtained an MD from the University of Bonn, a PhD in biology from the University of Berlin and a DSc from the University of London. He arrived in London in 1933, at the invitation of J.B.S. Haldane and Sir Henry Dale.

#16988

Trygve Braarud

1903 - 1985 (82 years)

Trygve Braarud was a Norwegian botanist. He specialized in marine biology, and was affiliated with the University of Oslo for most of his career. Career He was born in Verdal, and had ten older siblings as well as a twin sister. He received some of his early schooling at a private teaching institution founded by his father. He finished his secondary education at Trondheim Cathedral School in 1921, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.real. degree in 1927. In his early career he published the work The 'Øst' Expedition to the Denmark Strait 1929 in two volumes. The first volume, Hydrography, was published together with J.

#16989

Arthur Johnson Eames

1881 - 1969 (88 years)

Arthur Johnson Eames was an American botanist who spent over 50 years as faculty member and emeritus professor of botany at Cornell University, known for his work on flower anatomy and plant morphology. He served as president of the Botanical Society of America in 1938, was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1950.

#16990

Ann P. Wood

Ann Patricia Wood is a retired British biochemist and bacteriologist who specialized in the ecology, taxonomy and physiology of sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophic bacteria and how methylotrophic bacteria play a role in the degradation of odour causing compounds in the human mouth, vagina and skin. The bacterial genus Annwoodia was named to honor her contributions to microbial research in 2017.

#16991

F.G. Walton Smith

1909 - 1989 (80 years)

Dr. F.G. Walton Smith was an oceanographer who founded the first marine laboratory at the University of Miami, which ultimately grew into the university's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

#16992

Herman Johannes Lam

Herman Johannes Lam

1892 - 1977 (85 years)

Herman Johannes Lam was a Dutch botanist. Lam studied at Utrecht University, where he was awarded a Doctor of Biology in 1919. Lam was the appointed the director of the Rijksherbarium in 1933. He retired from academic work in 1962. He was member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1960.

#16993

Samuel Gelfan

1903 - 1975 (72 years)

Samuel Gelfan was an American professor of neurophysiology. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1932–1933. Education and career Gelfan graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with A.B. in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1927. There he was a teaching fellow in biology from 1925 to 1927. He was from 1928 to 1930 a Donnelly Research Fellow at the University of Chicago and from 1930 to 1932 an assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Alberta. For the academic year 1932–1933 he investigated muscle fibre physiology with Edgar D. Adrian at the Univer...

#16994

Albert Hazen Wright

1879 - 1970 (91 years)

Albert Hazen Wright was an American herpetologist and professor at Cornell University. He was also an honorary member of the International Ornithological Congress. He did a great deal of study of the Okefenokee Swamp. In 1955 he won the Eminent Ecologist Award.

#16995

Constantine John Alexopoulos

Constantine John Alexopoulos

1907 - 1986 (79 years)

Constantine John Alexopoulos was an American mycologist. He was the main author of the landmark book Introductory Mycology, commonly used in mycology and mycology-related courses in undergrad and grad schools around the globe. Introductory Mycology was translated into five languages.

#16996

Maurice Mehl

1887 - 1966 (79 years)

Maurice Goldsmith Mehl was an American paleontologist and professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Missouri. Life and career Mehl was born on December 25, 1887, to Frank and Rebecca Goldsmith Mehl. After graduation from Burlingame High School, he attended the University of Chicago, where he completed a B.S. in 1911 and a Ph.D. in 1914. While at Chicago, he met Lucy Jane Hull and they were married in 1912. At Chicago, Mehl studied vertebrate paleontology under the instruction of prominent paleontologist Samuel Wendell Williston. He taught at Chicago for a while as well as a...

#16997

Edward Alexander Newell Arber

Edward Alexander Newell Arber

1870 - 1918 (48 years)

Edward Alexander Newell Arber was an English botanist and paleontologist. He was a professor at the University of Cambridge specialising in palaeobotany. He married plant morphologist and philosopher Agnes Robertson in 1909. They had many interests in common, and his marriage was described as 'happy'. They had one child, a daughter. He died in 1918 following a period of ill health.

#16998

Rollins A. Emerson

1873 - 1947 (74 years)

Rollins Adams Emerson was an American geneticist who rediscovered the laws of inheritance established by Gregor Mendel. Early life Emerson was born on May 5, 1873, in tiny Pillar Point, New York, but at the age of seven his family moved to Kearney County, Nebraska, where he attended public school and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He enrolled in the College of Agriculture there, having developed an interest in the local flora and landscaping while quite young.

#16999

Norman Lowther Edson

Norman Lowther Edson

1904 - 1970 (66 years)

Norman Lowther Edson , FRSNZ, FNZIC, was the first Professor of Biochemistry in the University of New Zealand based at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand where he founded a department of biochemistry. Edson made contributions to the understanding of, ketone body metabolism in mammals and birds, metabolic pathways of Mycobacteria and specificity rules for polyol dehydrogenases.

#17000

Ernest Cruickshank

1888 - 1964 (76 years)

Ernest William Henderson Cruickshank FRSE LLD was a Scottish physician and physiologist. He was the author of several textbooks on nutrition. His book Food and Nutrition was an influential best-seller. It looks at the evolution of human diets, protein needs within the body and problems of world malnutrition.

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