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#17801

Clarence Emmeren Kobuski

1900 - 1963 (63 years)

Clarence Emmeren Kobuski was an American botanist and biologist. He was the curator of the Arnold Arboretum and the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University from 1954 until his death in 1963. He never married nor had any children.

#17802

Nancy Sullivan

Nancy Jean Sullivan is an American cell biologist researching filovirus immunology and vaccine development. She is a senior investigator and chief of the biodefense research section at the Vaccine Research Center. Her team discovered the monoclonal antibody, mAb114.

#17803

Liliana Lubińska

Liliana Lubińska

1904 - 1990 (86 years)

Liliana Lubińska was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport. She and her husband Jerzy Konorski founded the Department of Neurophysiology at the Nencki Institution in 1946

#17804

Herbert Hice Whetzel

Herbert Hice Whetzel

1877 - 1944 (67 years)

Herbert Hice Whetzel was an American plant pathologist and mycologist. As a professor of plant pathology, he led the first department of plant pathology at an American university and founded the Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium .

#17805

Harriet Robinson

Harriet Latham Robinson is an American vaccine researcher who is founder and Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus at GeoVax. She is the former Chief of Microbiology and Immunology at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Microbiology at Emory University. Her research considered HIV vaccine development. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#17806

Harold E. Moore

1917 - 1980 (63 years)

Harold Emery Moore, Jr. was an American botanist especially known for his work on the systematics of the palm family. He served as Director of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University, and was appointed Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Botany in 1978. He was an important contributor to Hortus Third and was editor of Principes , the journal of the International Palm Society. He also edited Gentes Herbarum and provided the foundation for the first edition of Genera Palmarum, a seminal work on palm taxonomy which was later completed by Natalie Uhl and John Dransfield.

#17807

Marie Stopes

1880 - 1958 (78 years)

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant paleontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse.

#17808

Douglas Kelley

1912 - 1958 (46 years)

Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials. He worked to ascertain defendants' competency before they stood trial.

#17809

Raffaele Ciferri

1897 - 1964 (67 years)

Raffaele Ciferri was an Italian botanist, agriculturalist and mycologist. He studied agricultural sciences at the University of Bologna. From 1925 to 1932, he was based in the Dominican Republic, where he helped establish an experimental agricultural station in Santiago de los Caballeros for studies of cassava. While in Latin America, he also conducted research of diseases affecting cacao in Ecuador. In 1934–35 he was stationed in Italian Somaliland, performing organizational work involving agrarian services.

#17810

Friedrich von Huene

Friedrich von Huene

1875 - 1969 (94 years)

Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe. He also made key contributions about various Permo-Carboniferous limbed vertebrates.

#17811

Alan Mozley

1904 - 1971 (67 years)

Walter Alan Mozley FRSE was an English zoologist who was known for his knowledge of freshwater snails, water insects and mollusca, and their impact on tropical disease. Life He was born on 20 June 1904 in Chingford in Essex.

#17812

Arthur M. Chickering

1887 - 1974 (87 years)

Arthur Merton Chickering was a U.S. arachnologist. Biography He was born on March 23, 1887, in North Danville, Vermont. He studied in Yale University under Alexander Petrunkevitch until 1913. In 1916 he earned a Master of Science degree in cytology and in 1927 a Ph.D. for cytological studies on the spermatogenesis of insects. He taught at Beloit College from 1913 to 1918 and at Albion College from 1918 to 1957. From 1953 to 1971 he was Research Associate in Arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.

#17813

Richard Woltereck

1877 - 1944 (67 years)

Richard Woltereck was a German zoologist best known for developing the concept of reaction norm . He also conducted some of the first research that provided evidence for the process of cytoplasmic inheritance. He proposed the concept in a 1909 paper that he presented to the German Zoological Society, based on his own research on the Daphnia water flea. According to historian Raphael Falk, the concept of the reaction norm was later revived by Richard Lewontin.

#17814

Rolf Dahlgren

1932 - 1987 (55 years)

Rolf Martin Theodor Dahlgren was a Swedish-Danish botanist and professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1973 to his death. Life Dahlgren was born in Örebro on 7 July 1932 to apothecary Rudolf Dahlgren and wife Greta née Dahlstrand. He took his MSc degree in Biology in and PhD degree in Botany in at Lund University. He was killed in a car crash in Scania, Sweden on 14 February 1987.

#17815

Ruth Bleier

1923 - 1988 (65 years)

Ruth Harriet Bleier was an American neurophysiologist who is also one of the first feminist scholars to explore how gender biases have shaped biology. Her career consisted of combining her academic interests with her commitment to social justice for women and the lower-class.

#17816

Jacob Goodale Lipman

Jacob Goodale Lipman

1874 - 1939 (65 years)

Jacob Goodale Lipman was a professor of agricultural chemistry and researcher in the fields of soil chemistry and bacteriology. Lipman was born in Friedrichstadt on November 18, 1874. Attending school in Moscow, he later attended the gymnasium in Orenburg. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1888, quickly settling on a farm in Woodbine, New Jersey, where he learned about agriculture. His brother Charles Bernard Lipman would later become a professor of plant physiology. In 1894, he enrolled into Rutgers College to study agricultural science and its founding principles, coming under the influence of E.

#17817

Anthony Bartholomay

1919 - 1975 (56 years)

Anthony Francis Bartholomay was a mathematician who introduced molecular set theory, a topic on which he wrote books. Life Bartholomay was born on August 11, 1919. He would receive degrees from Hamilton College, Syracuse University, and Harvard University. Bartholomay would work at Harvard Medical School, Medical School of Ohio, Brown University, Keuka College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Rutgers University. He died on March 21, 1975, at 55 years old. A resident of the Somerset section of Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, he died at a New Brunswick, New Jersey hospital...

#17818

Ivan Schmalhausen

1884 - 1963 (79 years)

Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen was a Ukrainian, Russian and later Soviet zoologist and evolutionary biologist of German descent. He developed the theory of stabilizing selection, and took part in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

#17819

Ferguson Rodger

1907 - 1978 (71 years)

Thomas Ferguson Rodger CBE FRCP Glas FRCP Ed FRCPsych was a Scottish physician who was Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow from 1948 to 1973, and Emeritus Professor thereafter. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and rose to become a consultant psychiatrist with the rank of Brigadier.

#17820

Leopold von Ubisch

1886 - 1965 (79 years)

Leopold von Ubisch was a German paleontologist who in 1954 surgically removed the nucleus from sea urchin eggs, to confirm an 1899 experiment by Theodor Boveri. He was an early supporter of the theory of continental drift.

#17821

Fritz von Wettstein

1895 - 1945 (50 years)

Friedrich Wettstein, Ritter von Westersheim was an Austrian botanist. Academic career Fritz Wettstein was the son of Richard Wettstein. From 1925 he was professor at Göttingen, in 1931 in Munich and in 1934 director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem.

#17822

Roger Arliner Young

Roger Arliner Young

1889 - 1964 (75 years)

Roger Arliner Young was an American scientist of zoology, biology, and marine biology. She was the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology. Early years Born in Clifton Forge, Virginia in 1899, Young soon moved with her family to Burgettstown, Pennsylvania where she graduated from Burgettstown High School. Her father labored as a coal miner, and her mother initially worked as a housekeeper before disability left her unable to work. The family was poor and most of the time resources were expended in the care of her disabled mother.

#17823

Nansie S. Sharpless

1932 - 1987 (55 years)

Nansie S. Sharpless was an American biochemist. She was an associate professor of psychiatry and neurology and Chief of the Clinical Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Deaf from the age of fourteen, Sharpless encouraged deaf people to consider careers in scientific research. She also served as the president of the Foundation for Science and the Handicapped.

#17824

Oskar Kuhn

1908 - 1990 (82 years)

Oskar Kuhn was a German palaeontologist. Life and career Kuhn was educated in Dinkelsbühl and Bamberg and then studied natural science, specialising in geology and paleontology, at the University of Munich, from which he received his D. Phil. in 1932.

#17825

Walter H. Burkholder

1891 - 1983 (92 years)

Walter Hagemeyer Burkholder was an American plant pathologist who helped establish the role of bacteria as plant pathogens. He was awarded a Ph.D. by Cornell University in 1917 and subsequently appointed as professor of plant pathology.

#17826

Irene Baker

1918 - 1989 (71 years)

Irene Baker was an American botanist who collaborated with her husband Herbert G. Baker to research pollination biology, the composition of nectar and study its ecological, evolutionary and taxonomic qualities.

#17827

Kono Yasui

1880 - 1971 (91 years)

Kono Yasui was a Japanese biologist and cytologist. In 1927, she became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science. She received a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon and was awarded as an Order of the Precious Crown Third Class for her academic accomplishments and leadership in women’s education in Japan.

#17828

William Macnae

1914 - 1975 (61 years)

William Macnae, 1914-1975, was a South African zoologist and malacologist. He was a Scottish born-and-educated marine ecologist and moved to South Africa in 1948. Career Macnae wrote the Crustacea section of the report entitled "Natural History of Canna and Sanday, Inner Hebrides: a report upon the Glasgow University Canna Expeditions, 1936 and 1937" published by the University of Glasgow in 1939 detailing the two visits by members of Glasgow University to Canna, Scotland, in June and July 1936 and 1937. In this report is the only British record of Chydorus gibbus , belonging to the sub-order ...

#17829

Carl H. Lindroth

1905 - 1979 (74 years)

Carl Hildebrand Lindroth was a Swedish entomologist and a professor at Lund University. He was a specialist in carabidology , with a special interest in biogeography. He was a strong proponent of the glacial refugium hypothesis and made use of the framework to explain the distribution patterns of Scandinavian beetles.

#17830

William Bowen Sarles

1906 - 1987 (81 years)

William Bowen Sarles was an American microbiologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1967. Biography He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1925 with a B.S., in 1927 with an M.S., and in 1931 with a Ph.D. in agricultural bacteriology. His Ph.D. thesis The production of volatile acids by the fermentation of cellulose at high temperatures was supervised by Edwin Broun Fred. From 1927 to 1929 Sarles was an instructor in bacteriology at Kansas State University. From 1930 to 1932 he held an instructorship in bacteriology at Iowa State University....

#17831

Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet

1883 - 1971 (88 years)

Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet, ForMemRS, was a French biologist. Early life Fauré-Fremiet was born on 29 December 1883 to the composer Gabriel Fauré and Marie Fremiet, the daughter of the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet. As a child he had poor health and was privately tutored at home. He was appointed an assistant lecturer in the Museum d'histoire naturelle in 1910, and then lecturer in Comparative embryology at the Collège de France in 1911, working under Louis-Félix Henneguy.

#17832

Floyd Alonzo McClure

1897 - 1970 (73 years)

Floyd Alonzo McClure was an American botanist and plant collector. He was one of the world's leading experts on bamboo and worked in China for 24 years. Biography McClure was educated at Otterbein College from 1914 to 1916. He transferred to Ohio State University, where he graduated with A.B. in 1918 and B.S. in agriculture in 1919. At Canton Christian College in Guangzhou, China, he was an instructor in horticulture from 1919 to 1923, an assistant professor of botany from 1923 to 1927, and curator of the herbarium from 1923 to 1927.

#17833

Helen Spurway

1917 - 1978 (61 years)

Helen Spurway was a British biologist and the second wife of J. B. S. Haldane. She emigrated to India in 1957 along with him and conducted research in field biology with Krishna Dronamraju, Suresh Jayakar, and others. Sometimes known as Helen Spurway-Haldane.

#17834

Deborah Rabinowitz

1947 - 1987 (40 years)

Deborah Rabinowitz was an ecologist who coined the seven meanings of rarity in the field of plant ecology,. She was a professor in the Section of Ecology and Systematics at Cornell University. Early life and education Rabinowitz was born and raised in Willimantic, Connecticut, to Louis and Margaret Rabinowitz. She attended public schools and later received her undergraduate degree in biology from New College of Florida in Sarasota. In 1975, she received her Ph.D. in theoretical population biology from the University of Chicago.

#17835

Miriam Augusta Palmer

1878 - 1977 (99 years)

Miriam Augusta Palmer was an American professor of entomology and zoology, scientific artist and sculptor. Biography Miriam Augusta Palmer was born on August 28, 1878, in Mont Clare, United States of America. She graduated from the University of Kansas. After completing her master's degree in 1904, she joined as a scientific illustrator at the experiment station of the Colorado Agricultural College, now known as Colorado State University, and continued until 1928.

#17836

Ken-Ichi Kojima

1930 - 1971 (41 years)

Ken-Ichi Kojima was a Japanese-American population geneticist. Career Ken-ichi Kojima graduated from Kyoto University with a B.S. degree in 1953; he went on to attend graduate school there, where he studied plant genetics under the supervision of Hitoshi Kihara. In 1955, Kojima, then a Fulbright Fellow, moved to North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, to begin studying for his Ph.D. in statistics and genetics. During this time, he was one of several major contributors to NCSU's Rockefeller Foundation-funded Quantitative Genetics Program. He received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1958, where he was a graduate student of Ralph E.

#17837

Cyrus R. Crosby

1879 - 1937 (58 years)

Cyrus Richard Crosby was an entomologist and arachnologist who taught at Cornell University. Along with Sherman C. Bishop he gave the scientific name to the Spruce-fir moss spider. Crosbycus, a genus of harvestmen in the family Ceratolasmatidae is also named for him.

#17838

Josselyn Van Tyne

1902 - 1957 (55 years)

Josselyn Van Tyne was an American ornithologist and museum curator of birds. A son of the historian Claude H. Van Tyne, Josselyn Van Tyne received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1925 and his Ph.D. in 1928 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He became Assistant Curator of Birds at the U. of Michigan's Museum of Zoology and in 1931 Curator of Birds, a position he held until his death; his successor as the Museum's Curator of Birds was Harrison B. Tordoff. In 1930 Van Tyne became an instructor in the U. of Michigan's Department of Zoology, then assistant professor, associate profe...

#17839

Naohide Yatsu

1877 - 1947 (70 years)

Naohide Yatsu was a Japanese biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. Yatsu received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a pioneer in embryonic induction and laid the foundations for zoology research in Japan.

#17840

Mary Jane Guthrie

1895 - 1975 (80 years)

Mary Jane Guthrie was an American zoologist and cytologist known for her studies of cytoplasm in reproductive and endocrine cells. Early life and education Guthrie was born in New Bloomfield, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's degree in 1916 and a master's degree in 1918, then earned her Ph.D. in zoology at Bryn Mawr College in 1922. While working towards her Ph.D., Guthrie served as a zoology instructor and demonstrator.

#17841

Erwin Baur

1875 - 1933 (58 years)

Erwin Baur was a German geneticist and botanist. Baur worked primarily on plant genetics. He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research . Baur is considered to be the father of plant virology. He discovered the inheritance of plastids.

#17842

Sarah Bedichek Pipkin

1913 - 1977 (64 years)

Sarah Craven Bedichek Pipkin was an American geneticist. Education Pipkin earned her B.A. in Zoology and Ph.D in Genetics from the University of Texas, where she studied with J. T. Patterson and H. J. Muller. She was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship to King's College, London and studied under J. B. S. Haldane.

#17843

Ernest Lyman Scott

1877 - 1966 (89 years)

Ernest Lyman Scott was an American physiologist and diabetes researcher who spent much of his career on the faculty at Columbia University. Scott's early work contributed to the modern understanding of the biology of insulin and its use in diabetes management, though the exact role and significance of his research in this context has been a subject of controversy. Later, Scott developed a standard blood test for diabetes. After retiring from Columbia in 1942, Scott went on to become a noted horticulturist.

#17844

Vera Danchakoff

Vera Danchakoff

1879 - 1950 (71 years)

Vera Mikhaĭlovna Danchakoff was an anatomist, cell biologist and embryologist from the Russian Empire. In 1908 she was the first woman in Russian Empire to be appointed as a professor and she became a pioneer in stem cell research. She emigrated to the United States in 1915 where she was a leading exponent of the idea that all types of blood cell develop from a single type of cell. She has sometimes been called "the mother of stem cells". She later returned to Europe to continue with her research.

#17845

Ernst Friedberger

Ernst Friedberger

1875 - 1932 (57 years)

Ernst Friedberger was a German immunologist and hygienist born in Giessen. He was of Jewish ancestry. In 1899 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Giessen, and in 1901 became an assistant at the University of Königsberg, where in 1903 he was habilitated as a lecturer in hygiene. In 1908 he attained the directorship of experimental therapy at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Berlin. From 1915 to 1926 he was professor of hygiene at the University of Greifswald, and afterwards director of the Preußischen Forschungsinstituts für Hygiene und Immunitätslehre in ...

#17846

Oskar Augustus Johannsen

1870 - 1961 (91 years)

Oskar Augustus Johannsen , was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Johannsen earned degrees from the University of Illinois and Cornell University. He taught civil engineering at Cornell from 1899 to 1909, entomology at the University of Maine from 1909 to 1912, and entomology at Cornell from 1912 to 1938.

#17847

O'Neil Ray Collins

1931 - 1989 (58 years)

O'Neil Ray Collins was an American botanist, mycologist, and specialist in slime-mold genetics. Early life Collins was born in Plaisance, Louisiana in 1931, and graduated from the local high school in 1948. After serving the United States Army in Europe, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in botany in January 1957 from Southern University. His interest in mycology was cultivated by Lafayette Frederick, a professor at Southern. Collins later attended the University of Iowa and studied under Constantine J. Alexopoulos, receiving his master's in 1959 and doctorate in 1961. His thesis invo...

#17848

Philip Hunter Timberlake

1883 - 1981 (98 years)

Philip Hunter Timberlake was one of the most prolific American entomologists of the 20th century. He was born on June 5, 1883, in Bethel, Maine, and died in 1981 in Riverside, California, where he had served as an Associate Entomologist in the Department of Entomology of the University of California, Riverside.

#17849

Wayne Eyer Manning

1899 - 2004 (105 years)

Wayne Eyer Manning was an American horticulturist and botanist. Biography In 1920, Manning obtained his Bachelor of Sciences from Oberlin College. In 1926 he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. His dissertation research was based on the study of the floral anatomy of Juglandaceae.

#17850

Hally Jolivette Sax

1884 - 1979 (95 years)

Hally Delilia Mary Jolivette Sax , was an American botanist known for her work on the chromosomal structure of plant species and how it is affected by radiation and other mutagens. Biography Hally Jolivette received her A.B. in 1906 and her A.M. in 1909 — both from the University of Wisconsin — and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1912. She taught at the University of Wisconsin , Stanford , and Washington State College . While at the latter institution, she met and in 1915 married the botanist Karl Sax, one of her cytology students. They later had three sons.

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