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#17151

Émile van Ermengem

Émile van Ermengem

1851 - 1932 (81 years)

Émile Pierre-Marie van Ermengem was a Belgian bacteriologist who, in 1895, isolated Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism, from a piece of ham that had poisoned thirty-four people.

#17152

Sergei Salazkin

1862 - 1932 (70 years)

Sergei Sergeievich Salazkin was a biochemist and academic; in 1917 he served in the Russian Provisional Government. Life S.S. Salazkin was born on February 26 , 1862, in Doschatoe in the Russian Empire. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of St. Petersburg and medicine at the University of Kiev, graduating in 1891. From 1898 to 1911 he was a professor at the Women's Medical Institute in St. Petersburg.

#17153

Hendrik Albertus Brouwer

1886 - 1973 (87 years)

Hendrik Albertus Brouwer was a Dutch geologist who specialized in petrology and explored South Africa and the Dutch colonies in Indonesia. Brouwer was born in Medemblik, the son of Egbertus L. Brouwer and Hendrika Poutsma. After schooling in Haarlem he went to the Technical University in Delft to study mine engineering and obtained a diploma in 1908. He received a doctoral degree for a dissertation on South African nepheline syenites in 1910. He became a professor of geology at the Delft Technical University in 1918 and during his career he travelled to Brazil, North America, South Africa and parts of southeast Asia to conduct studies on rocks.

#17154

Karl Gegenbaur

1826 - 1903 (77 years)

#17155

Jaques-Louis Reverdin

1842 - 1929 (87 years)

Jaques-Louis Reverdin was a Swiss surgeon who was a native of Cologny. He studied at the University of Paris, becoming an interne of hospitals in 1865. In 1869 he became an assistant to Jean Casimir Félix Guyon in the surgical department at the Hôpital Necker in Paris. Afterwards he moved to Geneva, where he eventually became chief surgeon at the Hôpital Cantonal de Geneve, and a professor at the University of Geneva.

#17156

Thomas Alan Stephenson

1898 - 1961 (63 years)

Thomas Alan Stephenson FRS was a British naturalist, and marine biologist, specialising in sea anemones. Early life Thomas Alan Stephenson, who went by his middle name, was born on 19 January 1898 in Burnham-on-Sea in Surrey, England. He was the eldest of three born to Thomas Stephenson, a Wesleyan minister and amateur botanist, and Margaret Stephenson ; a brother and sister would follow.

#17157

Richard Hugo Kaho

Richard Hugo Kaho

1885 - 1964 (79 years)

Richard Hugo Kaho was an Estonian plant physiologist and politician. He was a member of VI Riigikogu . From 1938 until 1940, he was the rector of the University of Tartu.

#17158

Philip A. Munz

1892 - 1974 (82 years)

Philip Alexander Munz was an American botanist, plant taxonomist and educator who worked at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and was a professor of botany at Pomona College, serving as dean there for three years.

#17159

Lewis Knudson

1884 - 1958 (74 years)

Lewis Knudson was an American botanist who dedicated most of his professional life to the study of the biology, reproduction and propagation of orchids. He obtained his Bachelor of Science and Arts degree at the University of Missouri in 1908 and came to Cornell University as an assistant in plant physiology. Here he earned his doctorate, was appointed assistant professor of plant physiology in 1911 and was made acting head of that department in 1912. In 1916, his department became incorporated into the department of botany and he became a professor of botany. In 1941 he was named the head of this department.

#17160

Mary Locke Petermann

1908 - 1975 (67 years)

Mary Locke Petermann was an American cellular biochemist known for her key role in the discovery and characterization of animal ribosomes, the molecular complexes that carry out protein synthesis. She was the first woman to become a full professor at Cornell University's medical school.

#17161

Martin Glaessner

1906 - 1989 (83 years)

Martin Fritz Glaessner AM was a geologist and palaeontologist. Born and educated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for geoscientific institutes in Austria, Russia, Australia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea and Australia. Glaessner also did early work on the classification of the pre-Cambrian lifeforms now known as the Ediacaran biota, which he proposed were the early antecedents of modern lifeforms.

#17162

Carl John Drake

Carl John Drake

1885 - 1965 (80 years)

Carl John Drake was an American entomologist and zoologist. He specialized in the systematics of the Hemiptera apart from applied entomology in the control of crop pests. Biography Drake was born in 1885, in Eaglesville, Ohio, where he grew up on a farm. He studied in Seneca County, Heidelberg Academy, Tiffin, before going to Baldwin-Wallace College where he obtained a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Pedantics in 1912. He was introduced to entomology by Herbert Osborn. He then went to Ohio State University receiving an MA in 1914 and a doctorate in 1921. After he graduated from University, he taught zoology in Ohio State University, starting from 1913 till 1915.

#17163

Richard Swann Lull

Richard Swann Lull

1867 - 1957 (90 years)

Richard Swann Lull was an American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a non-Darwinian view of evolution, whereby mutation could unlock presumed "genetic drives" that, over time, would lead populations to increasingly extreme phenotypes .

#17164

Gerald Webber Prescott

1899 - 1988 (89 years)

Gerald Webber Prescott was an American botanist, phycologist, and professor. Career After serving in World War I, Prescott studied botany at the University of Oregon, earning his B.S. in 1923. He pursued an M.A. from the University of Iowa, which he received in 1926. He continued his studies at Iowa and earned his Ph.D. in 1928.

#17165

Waldo Lee McAtee

1883 - 1962 (79 years)

Waldo Lee McAtee was an American ecologist and ornithologist. He wrote extensively about the feeding habits of birds and mammals and described over 460 new species of insects. Early life and education Waldo Lee McAtee was born on January 21, 1883, in Jalapa, Indiana. McAtee was a student at Indiana University from 1900 to 1906, majoring in Biology and Zoology. He earned his A.B. in 1904 and his A.M. in 1906. McAtee was a very active student at IU. He served as curator for the I.U. Zoological Museum, where his duties included classifying specimens. When professors were absent, McAtee was often called upon to teach science classes such as Embryology.

#17166

Dorothy Maud Wrinch

Dorothy Maud Wrinch

1894 - 1976 (82 years)

Dorothy Maud Wrinch was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins.

#17167

Merton F. Utter

1917 - 1980 (63 years)

Merton Franklin Utter was an American microbiologist and biochemist. Early life and education In his first year the family moved to New Market, Iowa, for his father's job in a bank. His mother worked as an organist in churches, which stimulated Utter's lifelong love of music. His education began in New Market. The family later moved to Coin, Iowa where In 1934 he graduated from high school. He attended Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he graduated in 1938. Merton went to graduate school until 1942 at Iowa State College, where his advisor was Chester Hamlin Werkman. In 1939 he married...

#17168

Aristid Lindenmayer

1925 - 1989 (64 years)

Aristid Lindenmayer was a Hungarian biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal language today called L-systems or Lindenmayer systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants.

#17169

Forrest Shreve

1878 - 1950 (72 years)

Forrest Shreve was an internationally known American botanist. His professional career was devoted to the study of the distribution of vegetation as determined by soil and climate conditions. His contributions to the plant biology world set the groundwork for modern studies and his books are regarded as classics by botanists worldwide.

#17170

Ernest Basil Verney

1894 - 1967 (73 years)

Ernest Basil Verney FRS was a British pharmacologist. He was born in Cardiff, Wales and attended Tonbridge School and Cambridge University, where he was awarded MA and MB. He was Sheilds Reader in Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and delivered their Goulstonian Lecture on Polyuria in 1929.

#17171

Ernst Pringsheim Jr.

1881 - 1970 (89 years)

Ernst Pringsheim Jr. or Ernst Georg Pringsheim was a German Natural scientist and plant physiology. He taught as a professor for biochemistry and botany, in the University of Berlin, University of Prague, and Cambridge University.

#17172

Albert Chibnall

Albert Chibnall

1894 - 1988 (94 years)

Albert Charles Chibnall FRS was a British biochemist known for his work on the nitrogen metabolism of plants. Life and career Albert Charles Chibnall was born on 28 January 1894 in Hammersmith, the second son of George William Chibnall, bakery owner, and Kate Butler. The first and third sons were both killed in action in WWI. The oldest child was Isabella Rachel ; there were also two girls who died in infancy.

#17173

Alexis Hartmann

1898 - 1964 (66 years)

Alexis Frank Hartmann Sr. was an American pediatrician and clinical biochemist. He is best known for adding sodium lactate to Ringer's solution, creating what is now known as Ringer's lactate solution or Hartmann's solution for intravenous infusions.

#17174

Tom Harris

1903 - 1983 (80 years)

Professor Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS was an English paleobotanist. Education and career He was educated at Bootham School, York, Wyggeston School, Leicester, and University College, Nottingham, before continuing to complete his doctorate at Christ's College, Cambridge.

#17175

Elizabeth McCoy

1903 - 1978 (75 years)

Elizabeth McCoy was an American microbiologist and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Early life Elizabeth McCoy was born in Madison, Wisconsin, February 1, 1903. McCoy’s fascination with microbiology began early on the family farm where she lived with her family. Her parents, Esther Williamson and Cassius James McCoy, both attended college. Her mother was a professor and then an active practicing nurse for six years. McCoy's mother taught her about household hygiene and techniques to best preserve food. Her father was a professor but for health reasons had to retire.

#17176

Joseph Charles Bequaert

Joseph Charles Bequaert

1886 - 1982 (96 years)

Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Career Bequaert obtained a doctorate in botany at the University of Ghent in 1908. He was an entomologist, and from 1910 to 1912 he was part of la commission Belge sur la maladie du sommeil . From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a botanist in the Belgian Congo and also collected mollusks.

#17177

Madeleine van Oppen

Madeleine van Oppen is a Dutch ecological geneticist researching at the University of Melbourne. She has been an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow since 2018. She obtained her MsC in 1990 and completed her PhD cum laude on the molecular biogeography of seaweeds at the University of Groningen in 1995.

#17178

James L. Peters

1889 - 1952 (63 years)

James Lee Peters was an American ornithologist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Dr. Austin Peters and Francis Howie Lee on August 13, 1889. His early education was at the Roxbury Latin School, followed by his acceptance to Harvard University, where he graduated in 1912.

#17179

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.

#17180

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.

#17181

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky

1900 - 1975 (75 years)

Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky was a prominent Russian and American geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis. Born in the Russian Empire, Dobzhansky emigrated to the United States in 1927, aged 27.

#17182

Selman Waksman

1888 - 1973 (85 years)

Selman Abraham Waksman was a Jewish Ukrainian inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University for four decades, he discovered several antibiotics , and he introduced procedures that have led to the development of many others. The proceeds earned from the licensing of his patents funded a foundation for microbiological research, which established the Waksman Institute of Microbiology located at the Rutgers University Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey .

#17183

C. H. Waddington

C. H. Waddington

1905 - 1975 (70 years)

Conrad Hal Waddington was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary developmental biology.

#17184

Nathan O. Kaplan

1917 - 1986 (69 years)

Nathan Oram Kaplan was an American biochemist who studied enzymology and chemotherapy. Biography After completing a B.A. in chemistry at UCLA in 1939, Kaplan studied carbohydrate metabolism in the liver under David M. Greenberg at the University of California, Berkeley medical school. He earned his Ph.D. in 1943. From 1942 to 1944, Kaplan participated in the Manhattan Project, and then spent a year as an instructor at Wayne State University. From 1945 to 1949, Kaplan worked with Fritz Lipmann, G. David Novelli, and Beverly Guirard to study coenzyme A. Kaplan went to the University of Illi...

#17185

René Dubos

1901 - 1982 (81 years)

René Jules Dubos was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited for having made famous the environmental maxim: "Think globally, act locally." Aside from a period from 1942 to 1944 when he was George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology and professor of tropical medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, his scientific career was spent entirely at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, later renamed The...

#17186

Herbert McLean Evans

Herbert McLean Evans

1882 - 1971 (89 years)

Herbert McLean Evans was an American anatomist and embryologist best known for co-discovering Vitamin E. Education He was born in Modesto, California. In 1908, he obtained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University.

#17187

Ernst Caspari

1909 - 1984 (75 years)

Ernst Wolfgang Caspari was a German-American geneticist known for his research on behavioral and developmental genetics. Early life and education Caspari was born on October 24, 1909, in Berlin, Germany. He was one of four children of Wilhelm Caspari, a physiologist, and his wife Gertrud. Despite being from a Jewish family, Wilhelm and Gertrud were Protestants, as were their children: Ernst, Fred, Irene, and Max. Ernst attended the Kaiser-Friedrich-Schule in Berlin, followed by the Goethe-Gymnasium zu Frankfurt. He decided he wanted to become a geneticist after reading a copy of Richard Golds...

#17188

J. D. Bernal

1901 - 1971 (70 years)

John Desmond Bernal was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular books on science and society. He was a communist activist and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain .

#17189

Nicolas Rashevsky

1899 - 1972 (73 years)

Nicolas Rashevsky was an American theoretical physicist who was one of the pioneers of mathematical biology, and is also considered the father of mathematical biophysics and theoretical biology. Academic career He studied theoretical physics at the St. Vladimir Imperial University of Kiev. He left Ukraine after the October Revolution, emigrating first to Turkey, then to Poland, France, and finally to the US in 1924.

#17190

Graham Selby Wilson

1895 - 1987 (92 years)

Sir Graham Selby Wilson FRS FRCP DPH was a noted bacteriologist. Biography He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but his family moved south in his early years. He was educated at Epsom College, King's College London and Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. In the latter he came under the influence of William Whiteman Carlton Topley who was his inspiring colleague from 1919 until 1941.

#17191

Stanford Moore

1913 - 1982 (69 years)

Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.

#17192

Lorande Loss Woodruff

1879 - 1947 (68 years)

Lorande Loss Woodruff was an American biologist, notable for his exhaustive studies of unicelluar eukaryotes, especially ciliates; and for his long tenure as a trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

#17193

Charles Best

1899 - 1978 (79 years)

Charles Herbert Best , was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin. Personal life Born in West Pembroke, Maine, on February 27, 1899, to Luella Fisher and Herbert Huestis Best, a Canadian-born physician from Nova Scotia. His father, Herbert Best, was a doctor in a small Maine town with a limited economy based mostly on sardine-packing. His mother, Lulu Newcomb, later Lulu Best, who sang soprano, accompanying herself on organ and piano, was in demand as a performer at funerals and weddings. Best grew up in Pembroke before going to Toronto, Ontario, to st...

#17194

Kenneth Mather

1911 - 1990 (79 years)

Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS was a British geneticist and botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964. He was the second vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, serving from 1965 to 1971. He was instrumental in persuading the University Grants Committee to establish a new Medical School at the university.

#17195

Carl J. Wiggers

1883 - 1963 (80 years)

Carl J. Wiggers was a doctor and medical researcher famous for his heart and blood-pressure research. He developed the Wiggers diagram, which is commonly used in teaching of cardiovascular research.

#17196

William Ogilvy Kermack

1898 - 1970 (72 years)

William Ogilvy Kermack FRS FRSE FRIC was a Scottish biochemist. He made mathematical studies of epidemic spread and established links between environmental factors and specified diseases. He is noteworthy for being blind for the majority of his academic career. Together with Anderson Gray McKendrick he created the Kermack-McKendrick theory of infectious diseases.

#17197

Macfarlane Burnet

Macfarlane Burnet

1899 - 1985 (86 years)

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and he developed the theory of clonal selection.

#17198

Juda Hirsch Quastel

1899 - 1987 (88 years)

Juda Hirsch Quastel, was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer. Biography Quastel, also known as "Harry" or "Q," was born at Ecclesall Road in Sheffield the son of Jonas Quastel, a confectioner, and his wife, Flora Itcovitz. His parents had come to Britain in 1897 from Tarnopol in Galicia and were married in Britain. He was named after his grandfather, Juda Quastel, a chemist in Tarnapol.

#17199

John Farquhar Fulton

John Farquhar Fulton

1899 - 1960 (61 years)

John Farquhar Fulton was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. His main contributions were in primate neurophysiology and history of science.

#17200

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 .

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