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#18051

Florence Annie Mockeridge

1889 - 1958 (69 years)

Florence Annie Mockeridge was a British botanist and university professor. Mockeridge was a lecturer at King's College, London, 1917-1922, and lecturer at University College Swansea 1922-1954. She was also a Linnean Society Fellow. Her research output included significant work on growth promoting substances.

#18052

Edith A. Roberts

1881 - 1977 (96 years)

Edith Adelaide Roberts was an American botanist studying plant physiology and a pioneer in plant ecology. She created the first ecological laboratory in the United States, promoted natural landscaping along with Elsa Rehmann, and proved that plants were the main source of vitamin A.

#18053

Gustav Ricker

1870 - 1948 (78 years)

Gustav Wilhelm August Josef Ricker was a German physician and pathologist born in Hadamar, Hesse-Nassau. He studied philosophy and medicine at several universities, earning his doctorate in 1893 at the University of Berlin. In 1897 he received his habilitation under Albert Thierfelder at the University of Rostock, and from 1906 until 1933 was head of pathology at the city hospitals in Magdeburg. Afterwards he worked as a private scholar in Berlin and Dresden.

#18054

Günther Niethammer

1908 - 1974 (66 years)

Günther Theodor Niethammer was a German ornithologist who served during the Second World War with the Nazi Waffen-SS at various places including the Auschwitz concentration camp where he conducted studies on birds.

#18055

Angela Roberts

Angela Charlotte Roberts is a British neurobiologist who is a professor of physiology at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers the neural circuits that underpin cognition and emotion. She leads the Cambridge Marmoset Research Centre. She was awarded the 2020 Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience.

#18056

Perry Greeley Holden

Perry Greeley Holden

1865 - 1959 (94 years)

Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States. Biography Holden was born in Dodge Center, Minnesota, to Dennison Franklin Holden and Mary Helen Wilson. He graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1889 and taught at M. A. C. from 1889 to 1893. On November 11, 1892, he married Carrie Amalia Burnett . They had four children; one of them died as an infant. He studied at the Michigan State University where he was awarded an M.S. in 1895.

#18057

Josephine Langworthy Rathbone

Josephine Langworthy Rathbone

1899 - 1989 (90 years)

Josephine Langworthy Rathbone was an American physiologist whose research and work involved physical education and relaxation. She taught at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1930 to 1958, and was a founding member of the American College of Sports Medicine .

#18058

Vagn Walfrid Ekman

Vagn Walfrid Ekman

1874 - 1954 (80 years)

Vagn Walfrid Ekman was a Swedish oceanographer. Born in Stockholm to Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, himself an oceanographer, he became committed to oceanography while studying physics at the University of Uppsala and, in particular, on hearing Vilhelm Bjerknes lecture on fluid dynamics.

#18059

Olaf Hagerup

1889 - 1961 (72 years)

Olaf Hagerup was a Danish botanist. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1911 under the professors Eugenius Warming, Christen C. Raunkiær, L. Kolderup Rosenvinge og W. Johannsen. He took his Ph.D. from the same university in 1930. From 1934 to 1960, he was superintendent at the Botanical Museum of the University of Copenhagen.

#18060

Marius Jeuken

1916 - 1983 (67 years)

Marius Jeuken was professor of theoretical biology at the Institute of Theoretical Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, from 1968 until his death. Jeuken was also a member of the Society of Jesus; he joined the Dutch Jesuits in 1934 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1946 in Maastricht.

#18061

Ronald Hamlyn-Harris

1874 - 1953 (79 years)

Dr Ronald Hamlyn-Harris was an English-born entomologist who spent most of his working life in Australia. Following seven years teaching science at Toowoomba Grammar School in Queensland he became Director of the Queensland Museum, later occupying several positions culminating in lecturing at the University of Queensland.

#18062

Arthur Mills Lea

1868 - 1932 (64 years)

Arthur Mills Lea was an Australian entomologist. Lea was born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, the second son of Thomas Lea, from Bristol, England, and his wife Cornelia, née Dumbrell, of Sydney. As a child, Lea was interested in insects and studied them in his spare time. He worked for a chartered accountant firm in Sydney for a while, then became an assistant entomologist for the minister of Agriculture at Sydney in 1891. In 1895 he became government entomologist in Western Australia. Then in 1899 he was appointed government entomologist in Tasmania, where he succeeded in controlling the c...

#18063

Friedrich Mauz

1900 - 1979 (79 years)

Friedrich Robert Mauz was a German psychiatrist who was involved with the Nazi T-4 Euthanasia Program. From 1939 until 1945, Mauz was the Professor of Psychiatry at Albertina University in Königsberg. In 1953, he became the Professor of Psychiatry at Münster.

#18064

Eizi Matuda

1894 - 1978 (84 years)

Eiji Matsuda was a Mexican botanist of Japanese origin. In scholarly works, his name is generally romanised as "Eizi Matuda" following the "Kunrei" system. Biography Matuda and his wife, Miduho Kaneko de Matuda, were naturalized Mexican citizens and had five Mexico-born children.

#18065

Charles Edward Moss

Charles Edward Moss

1870 - 1930 (60 years)

Charles Edward Moss , was an English-born South African botanist, the youngest son of a nonconformist minister, and is noted for being the editor of the first two parts of The Cambridge British Flora published in 1914 and 1920. The Cambridge British Flora, under the editorship of Moss, was intended to be a ten-volume survey of the flora of Britain, with contributions by specialists in particular genera. The two volumes that saw publication were of a very high standard, but the project was subsequently abandoned.

#18066

Collingwood Ingram

1880 - 1981 (101 years)

Collingwood "Cherry" Ingram , was a British ornithologist, plant collector and gardener, who was an authority on Japanese flowering cherries. Personal life Collingwood Ingram was a son of Sir William Ingram and Mary Eliza Collingwood , daughter of Australian politician Edward Stirling. His maternal grandfather was born in Jamaica to a Scottish planter and an unnamed woman of colour. He concealed his racial identity and later settled in South Australia, where he was elected to parliament; his sons Lancelot and Edward Charles Stirling were also members of parliament.

#18067

Nils Svedelius

1873 - 1960 (87 years)

Prof Nils Eberhard Svedelius ForMemRS HFRSE was a Swedish botanist. He was an expert on marine algae. Biography He was born in Stockholm on 5 August 1873 the second son of Carl Svedelius LLD , a senior judge in the Supreme Court of Justice, and his wife, Ebba Katarina Skytte, from the family of Skytte of Satra. In 1914 he married Lisa Thegerstrom . He died on 2 August 1960.

#18068

Maurice Cole Tanquary

Maurice Cole Tanquary

1881 - 1944 (63 years)

Maurice Cole Tanquary was a professor of entomology, a member of the Crocker Land Expedition and is considered to be a pioneer in modern beekeeping. Early life Tanquary was the son of Thomas J. and Florence A. Tanquaary. He was born and raised in Lawrenceville, Illinois, grew up on a farm and attended local public schools. He furthered his education at Vincennes University, where he played an active role in the Tau Phi Delta society, contributing to its initial constitution and by-laws. In 1903, he graduated from Vincennes University and subsequently taught at Lawrence County's public schools for four years.

#18069

Arthur White Greeley

Arthur White Greeley

1875 - 1904 (29 years)

Arthur White Greeley was an American physiologist and ichthyologist. Greeley was born in Oswego, New York, the eldest of two sons of Frank Norton Greeley, a Congregational clergyman, and Anna Cheney Greeley. His brother William would go on to become chief forester of the U.S. Forest Service. He graduated from Stanford University in 1898, and spent one year as a graduate student in zoology, during which he went to Alaska with the fur-seal expedition and to Brazil with the Banner-Agassiz expedition, where he made most of the biological collections. The following year he was an instructor at San Diego Normal School , leaving there to enter the University of Chicago as fellow in physiology.

#18070

Thomas Borgmeier

1892 - 1975 (83 years)

Thomas Borgmeier was a German-Brazilian priest and entomologist and became a specialist on the ants of Brazil and on the flies in the family Phoridae. He was also the founder of the journals Revista de Entomologia edited it from 1931 to 1951 and the Studia Entomologica from 1958.

#18071

Hermann Dürck

1869 - 1941 (72 years)

Hermann Ludwig Friedrich Franz Dürck was a German pathologist and histologist. He studied under Otto Bollinger at the University of Munich and with Hans Chiari at Prague, obtaining his doctorate in Munich in 1892. In 1897 he received his habilitation in pathological anatomy and bacteriology, attaining the title of associate professor in 1902. In 1909 he relocated to the institute of pathology in Jena as a full professor, followed by a directorship at the pathological institute at Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich . In 1919 he became an honorary professor at the University of Munich.

#18072

C.B. Williams

1889 - 1981 (92 years)

Carrington Bonsor Williams FRS better known as C. B. Williams or just "C.B." to friends was an English entomologist and ecologist. He contributed to studies on insect migration, statistical approaches to ecology and biogeography.

#18073

Knud Jessen

1884 - 1971 (87 years)

Knud Jessen was a Danish botanist and quaternary geologist. Biography Jessen was born at Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was a student at the University of Copenhagen and was awarded cand.mag. in natural history and geography with botany as a major in 1911.

#18074

Iwao Taki

1901 - 1984 (83 years)

Iwao Taki was a Japanese malacologist. He described many taxa of Mollusca with Isao Taki , Tadashige Habe and Tokubei Kuroda. Life Iwao Taki was born on 19 June 1901 in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. On the suggestion of his brother, Isao Taki, he entered in 1920. He graduated and worked at as a teacher in 1924. The next year, he entered Department of zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto Imperial University. In 1928, he graduated and worked in Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. He returned to Kyoto in August, and he founded The Malacological Society of Japan , and was involved in publishing the journal "Venus".

#18075

David Lester

1916 - 1990 (74 years)

David Lester was an American biochemist who did extensive studies of alcoholism and was a professor at Rutgers University. Life and career He was scientific director of the Center of Alcohol Studies after it moved to Rutgers in 1962. From 1940 to 1980, he was an editorial board member of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol , based at the Center for Alcohol Studies.

#18076

Jovan Hadži

1884 - 1972 (88 years)

Jovan Hadži was a Slovenian zoologist of Serbian origin. Biography Hadži was born in a Serbian family in Temišvar in what was then Austria-Hungary. He began his career in Zagreb. In 1920, he moved to Ljubljana where he became the head of zoological institute at the then established University of Ljubljana. Between 1951 and 1972, Hadži was the head of the Biological institute at Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1938, he became a full member of SASA.

#18077

Calvin Henry Kauffman

Calvin Henry Kauffman

1869 - 1931 (62 years)

Calvin Henry Kauffman was an American botanist and mycologist. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he was affiliated with the University of Michigan from 1904 until his death, and was known for his studies of the family Agaricaceae.

#18078

Nikolai Cholodny

Nikolai Cholodny

1882 - 1953 (71 years)

Mykola Hryhorovych Kholodny was an influential microbiologist who worked at the University of Kyiv, Ukraine in the USSR during the 1930s. He is known for the Cholodny–Went model, which he developed independently with Frits Warmolt Went of the California Institute of Technology. Despite being associated with the same theory, the two men never actually met.

#18079

Alfred Ernst

1875 - 1968 (93 years)

Alfred Ernst was a Swiss botanist. He attended classes at the teachers' seminar in Küsnacht, followed by studies of biological sciences in Paris. From 1897 to 1899 he worked as a teacher in Naples. Afterwards, he received his doctorate in sciences from the University of Zürich, where in 1905, he became an associate professor. From 1909 to 1945 he was a professor of general botany at Zürich, being chosen university rector in 1928.

#18080

Hans Heinze

1895 - 1983 (88 years)

Hans Heinze, sometimes referred to as Euthanasie-Heinze , was a Nazi German psychiatrist and eugenicist. Life Heinze was born in Elsterberg, the 13th of 14 children, and was educated at Grimma. After service as a medical orderly during World War I Heinze studied medicine and trained as a psychiatrist at Leipzig, where he worked from 1924 in child psychiatry. He was later appointed director of the child psychiatry department of the University Clinic in Berlin, and also, in 1934, director of the Landesheilanstalt in Potsdam, holding the two posts simultaneously. On 2 October 1939 he was appointe...

#18081

Corneille Heymans

Corneille Heymans

1892 - 1968 (76 years)

Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920. Heymans won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and the oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain.

#18082

Perry Daniel Strausbaugh

Perry Daniel Strausbaugh

1886 - 1965 (79 years)

Perry Daniel Strausbaugh was an American botanist and expert in the flora of West Virginia. Early life Strausbaugh was born near Republic, Ohio on March 21, 1886. When he was 16, he received his teacher's certificate and began teaching grade school in Danville, Ohio. He first became interested in botany in 1904 while taking college preparatory classes at North Manchester College. In 1906, he received a Bachelor of English from Canton College and Bible Institute. He went on to get a S.B. degree from the College of Wooster in 1913, where he was also working as an instructor. He continued to te...

#18083

Julius Schaxel

1887 - 1943 (56 years)

Julius Christoph Ehregott Schaxel was a German developmental biologist and zoologist who was a native of Augsburg. He initially studied biology, philosophy and psychology at Jena under Ernst Haeckel , then continued his education in Munich with Richard Hertwig . In 1909 he obtained his PhD at the University of Jena under Ludwig Plate , where from 1918 until 1933, he worked as an associate professor of zoology. During the rise of Nazism, partly because of his Marxist views and partly owing to his wife's Jewish heritage, he was dismissed from his position at Jena, and in 1933 emigrated to Switz...

#18084

Helen Blackler

1902 - 1981 (79 years)

Margaret Constance Helen Blackler was a British phycologist, botanical collector and museum curator. Career Blackler was Assistant Keeper of Botany at Liverpool Museum between 1933 and 1945. She also had some temporary teaching posts at colleges and the universities of Liverpool and Sheffield. In 1947 she moved to an academic post at University of St Andrews. She was a lecturer in botany until 1961 and then promoted to senior lecturer until her retirement in 1968. She continued active laboratory research at the university's Gatty Marine Laboratory until the day before her death.

#18085

Thomas Robertson Sim

Thomas Robertson Sim

1858 - 1938 (80 years)

Thomas Robertson Sim was a botanist, bryologist, botanical artist and Conservator of Forests in Natal, best known for his monumental work The Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope which appeared in 1907. He was the eldest of five children of John Sim , a noted bryologist and Isabella Thomson Robertson .

#18086

Nathaniel Lyon Gardner

1864 - 1937 (73 years)

Nathaniel Lyon Gardner , was an American phycologist and mycologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the curator of the University Herbarium. He is known for his work on seaweeds of the Pacific Coast, as well as on freshwater algae and fungi, and among his publications is the important reference work Algae of Northwestern America.

#18087

Ethel Zoe Bailey

1889 - 1983 (94 years)

Ethel Zoe Bailey was a U.S. botanist and the first curator of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University from 1935 to 1957. She created the Ethel Z. Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection and in 1912 was the first woman in Ithaca, New York to earn a driver's license.

#18088

Antoni Kępiński

Antoni Kępiński

1918 - 1972 (54 years)

Antoni Ignacy Tadeusz Kępiński was a Polish psychiatrist and philosopher. In his youth he was influenced by Carl Jung's approach. He is known as the originator of concepts of information metabolism and axiological psychiatry.

#18089

Muriel Wheldale Onslow

Muriel Wheldale Onslow

1880 - 1932 (52 years)

Muriel Wheldale Onslow was a British biochemist, born in Birmingham, England. She studied the inheritance of flower colour in the common snapdragon Antirrhinum and the biochemistry of anthocyanin pigment molecules. She attended the King Edward VI High School in Birmingham and then matriculated at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1900. At Cambridge she majored in botany. Onslow later worked within Bateson's genetic group and then Frederick Gowland Hopkins biochemical group in Cambridge, providing her with expertise in biochemical genetics for investigating the inheritance and biosynthesis of petal colour in Antirrhinum.

#18090

Otto Porsch

1875 - 1959 (84 years)

Otto Porsch was an Austrian biologist. After his Ph.D he worked with Gottlieb Haberlandt in Graz and did his habilitation with Richard Wettstein in Vienna. He became first director of the botanical garden in Czernowitz and later professor at the University of Czernowitz . Porsch became director of the botanical institute in Vienna in 1920. He retired in 1945 and died in 1959.

#18091

Rose Bracher

1894 - 1941 (47 years)

Rose Bracher was a British botanist and academic. She researched the ecology of the mud flats of the River Avon at Bristol and in particular the genus Euglena. Bracher was born in Salisbury and obtained a B.Sc. in 1917, followed by an M.Sc. in 1918 and a Ph.D. in 1927, all from the University of Bristol. She worked as a demonstrator at the London School of Medicine for Women , was a lecturer at the East London College , and took up a post of lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1924 which she held until her death in 1941. Obituaries for Bracher were published in Nature and the Proceedings...

#18092

Edith Philip Smith

Edith Philip Smith

1897 - 1976 (79 years)

Edith Philip Smith FLS FRSE was a botanist and teacher who became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Head of the Botany Department at Queen's College, Dundee . Career She was one of the first female graduates to receive a degree at the University of Oxford when the first women's graduation ceremony was held there in 1920. She studied at Somerville College, and in June 1920 passed exams in the School of Natural Science with first-class honours, leading to a BA. She then spent a year at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, and undertook research in the plant physiology laboratory at Harvard.

#18093

Eddie Roux

1903 - 1966 (63 years)

Eddie Roux was a Transvaal Colony-born botanist, academic, writer, member of the South African Communist Party and anti-apartheid activist. Early life He was born Edward Roux to Afrikaner father Phillip R. Roux, a pharmacist and botanist, who was involved in the Labour Party and English mother, Edith May Wilson. He grew up in Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg. Roux's political view were further inspired by the events of the 1917 Russian Revolution. After matriculating at Jeppe High School, he enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand and studied botany and zoology. At university, he joined ...

#18094

Robert Hippolyte Chodat

1865 - 1934 (69 years)

Robert Hippolyte Chodat was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was a professor and director of the botanical institute at the University of Geneva. He studied medicine and botany at Geneva, where he was later a lecturer of pharmacy. In 1889 he attained the title of associate professor, two years later becoming a full professor of medical and pharmaceutical botany. From 1900 onward, he taught classes in general and systematic botany. In 1908 he was appointed rector at the University of Geneva.

#18095

Robert Elias Fries

Robert Elias Fries

1876 - 1966 (90 years)

Robert Elias Fries , the youngest son of Theodor Magnus Fries and grandson of Elias Magnus Fries and an expert on mushrooms. A Swedish botanist who was a member of the British Mycological Society and involved with The Botanical Museum , Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Natural History Museum , the National Botanic Garden of Belgium , Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ,the Swedish Museum of Natural History Department of Phanerogamic Botany and the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution .

#18096

Yrjö Reenpää

1894 - 1976 (82 years)

Yrjö Reenpää was a Finnish physiologist and philosopher and professor of physiology in University of Helsinki. He developed general sensory physiology on the bases of Kantian epistemology, psycho-physics and phenomenology.

#18097

Emmeline Moore

1877 - 1968 (91 years)

Emmeline Moore was an American biologist known for her various articles on fish diseases, as well as pioneering work in conservation and combating water pollution. She earned a PhD in biology from Cornell University in 1916. Moore supervised and edited fourteen watershed reports conducted in New York between 1926 and 1939 and these were the most comprehensive scientific surveys of any states' water resources. She died at a nursing home in Guilderland, New York at the age of 91 following an extended illness.

#18098

Louisa E. Rhine

Louisa E. Rhine

1891 - 1983 (92 years)

Louisa Ella Rhine was an American doctor of botany and is known for her work in parapsychology. At the time of her death, she was recognized as the foremost researcher of spontaneous psychic experiences, and has been referred to as the "first lady of parapsychology."

#18099

Wataru Ishijima

1906 - 1980 (74 years)

Wataru Ishijima was a paleontologist and geologist. Ishijima was one of the most prolific researchers of fossil calcareous algae. After graduating from the Imperial Fisheries Institute in 1927, Ishijima joined the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Science, Tohoku Imperial University from 1927–1931. He then worked at the Institute of Geology, Taihoku Imperial University during 1942–1945 and then at the Rikkyo University from 1945–1980. His doctoral dissertation was submitted to Tohoku University and was privately published by Yūhodō . He described a total of 139 taxa of foss...

#18100

Othmar Kühn

1892 - 1969 (77 years)

Othmar Kühn was an Austrian geologist and paleontologist at the University of Vienna who was a member of the Nazi Party, serving in the Wehrmacht as a military geologist during World War II. He worked mainly on Cretaceous stratigraphy and began a catalogue of the fossils of Austria, Fossilium catalogus Austriae.

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