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#18351

Edward Loranus Rice

1871 - 1960 (89 years)

Edward Loranus Rice was a biologist and educator who served as the acting president of Ohio Wesleyan University. He was best known for his 1924 debate with William Jennings Bryan on the topic of biological evolution and serving as a scientific consultant to Clarence Darrow before the 1925 Scopes trial.

#18352

Max Standfuss

1854 - 1917 (63 years)

Maximilian Rudolph Standfuss was a German-Swiss entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera. He studied theology at the University of Halle and natural sciences at the University of Breslau, where in 1879 he received his PhD in zoology. For many years, he was curator, and later director, of the collections at the entomological museum of Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zürich. In 1892 he obtained his habilitation and he subsequently worked as a lecturer at the Polytechnic and at the University of Zürich. In 1915 he received the title of professor. In 1908–10 he served as president of the Naturfor...

#18353

Oscar Fraas

1824 - 1897 (73 years)

Oscar Friedrich von Fraas was a German clergyman, paleontologist and geologist. He was the father of geologist Eberhard Fraas . Biography He studied theology at the University of Tübingen . He was also deeply interested in natural sciences, and while a student at Tübingen was influenced by geologist Friedrich August von Quenstedt. In 1847 he travelled to Paris, where he attended lectures given by Alcide d'Orbigny and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont. From 1850 to 1854, he served as a pastor in Laufen an der Eyach, and in the meantime obtained in his doctorate from the University of Würzburg . I...

#18354

Gleb Krotkov

1901 - 1968 (67 years)

Gleb Paul Krotkov, was a Russian-Canadian academic and plant physiologist. Born in Moscow, Russian Empire, he joined the White Russian Navy. After the defeat of the White forces in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, he managed to escape to Prague.

#18355

Charles Wynford Parsons

1901 - 1950 (49 years)

Charles Wyndford Parsons FRSE was a 20th-century British zoologist. Life He was born in Swansea on 22 July 1901. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School then studied Zoology at Cambridge University graduating MA in 1924. He then began lecturing in Zoology at Glasgow University.

#18356

Anton Schneider

1831 - 1890 (59 years)

Friedrich Anton Schneider was a German zoologist who was among the first to examine and describe mitotic nuclear division with observations on what would later be called chromosomes. He served as a professor at the University of Giessen and at the University of Wroclaw.

#18357

Thomas Cameron

1894 - 1980 (86 years)

Thomas Wright Moir Cameron was a Canadian veterinarian and parasitologist. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in veterinary science, a Master of Arts degree in parasitology, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in parasitology, and a Doctor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh. During World War I, he served with the Highland Light Infantry and as a captain in the Royal Flying Corps.

#18358

Samuel Liljeblad

1761 - 1815 (54 years)

Samuel Liljeblad was a Swedish botanist and economist. At school in Vimmerby and at Linköping's Gymnasium, Liljeblad studied natural history. He became an avid plant collector encouraged by, among others, a physician in Linköping, Johan Otto Hagström , who was one of the Apostles of Linnaeus. Liljeblad matriculated in 1782 at Uppsala University, majored in economics, and graduated there with a master's degree in 1788.

#18359

Ivan Novopokrovskiy

1880 - 1951 (71 years)

Ivan Vasilyevich Novopokrovskiy was a botanist and a specialist in the field of botanical geography and systematics of higher plants. Biography Ivan Vasilyevich Novopokrovskiy was born on 7 December 1880 in Mikhaylov . In 1904 he graduated from the Natural Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University. In 1920—1931 he was a Professor in Novocherkassk Institute of Agriculture and Melioration. Until 1934 he was a professor at Krasnodar Agricultural Institute.

#18360

Camille Delezenne

1868 - 1932 (64 years)

Camille Delezenne was a French physician and biologist born in Genech, a town in the department of Nord. He studied medicine in Lille, obtaining his hospital internship in 1890. In 1892 he supported his doctorate with a dissertation on parapneumonic pleurisy. Afterwards he undertook experiments on blood circulation at the Wertheimer laboratory in Lille. During this time period, he also served as mayor of Genech .

#18361

Bernhardt Jungmann

1671 - 1747 (76 years)

Bernhardt Jungmann was a German botanist who was a professor in Germany and visited America. Biography Jungmann was born in Ronneburg. He studied at the University of Leipzig, and was professor of botany and chemistry in the University of Göttingen in 1702, and the University of Kiel in 1709. In 1712 he went to Leiden, and was sent by the Dutch government on a scientific mission to America. He visited successively Canada, New England, Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico 1715–1724, and lived several years in Saint Eustache and Saint Lucia, returning in 1727 to Leiden.

#18362

Otto Appenzeller

#18363

Marcel Dubuisson

1903 - 1974 (71 years)

Marcel Georges Valère Céline Dubuisson was a Belgian zoologist and professor at the University of Liège. Dubuisson was born in Olsene, which is part of Zulte, in 1903. He married Adèle Brouha, the sister of medical researcher and University of Liège alumni Lucien Brouha. He was rector of the University of Liège from 1953 to 1971. He died in Liège in 1974 and was buried at the Cimetière de Robermont.

#18364

Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes

Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes

1881 - 1960 (79 years)

Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes was a German archaeologist and botanist specialist of Aizoaceae . Life and work Schwantes was born in Bleckede and died in Hamburg. The Duvensee paddle is the preserved part of a Mesolithic spade paddle, which was found during archaeological excavations of a Mesolithic dwelling area at Duvensee near Klinkrade Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1926 by Schwantes.

#18365

Charles R. Baxter

#18366

Portia Holman

1903 - 1983 (80 years)

Portia Grenfell Holman was an Australian child psychiatrist who practiced in London. Early life and education Holman was born in 1903 in Sydney; she was the only child of William Holman, who would become the Premier of New South Wales, and Ada Augusta Holman, a writer. She gained a Bachelor of Arts at The Women's College of the University of Sydney, and in 1923 she enrolled at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in economics in 1926. She then went on to study at the University of Paris and the London School of Economics, before taking up a role in lecturing and research at the University of St Andrews from 1927 to 1933.

#18367

John B. Zabriskie

#18368

Louis Beethoven Prout

1864 - 1943 (79 years)

Louis Beethoven Prout was an English entomologist and musicologist. Prout specialised in the insect order of Lepidoptera, especially the Geometridae, or geometer moths, on which he was a foremost authority. His notebooks and publications formed the basis of the Geometridae card indexes in the Natural History Museum, the then British Museum . He was the secretary of the North London Natural History Society and worked in association with the Natural History Museum at Tring.

#18369

Bernard Glueck Sr.

1884 - 1972 (88 years)

Bernard Charles Glueck Sr. was a Polish-American forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He established the first prison psychiatric clinic and was an expert witness in the Leopold and Loeb trial. He also served as president of the American Psychopathological Association in 1945.

#18370

Sophus Torup

1861 - 1937 (76 years)

Sophus Carl Frederik Torup was a Danish physiologist who settled in Norway. He was born in Nykøbing in Falster, Denmark, to Jacob Møller Torup and Gregerssine Juliane Marie Simonsen. He was appointed professor in physiology at the University of Oslo from 1889 to 1931. Among his research interests were hematology and nutrition. He made contributed as advicor to polar expeditions, and the Torupa Island, adjacent to Karl-Alexander Island in Franz Josef Land, is named after Torup. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1900, and was Commander of the Order of Dannebrog.

#18371

Camille Dareste

1822 - 1899 (77 years)

Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille Dareste de la Chavanne was a French zoologist and specialist in experimental embryology. He obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1847 and his doctorate in science in 1851. He worked at the University of Lille, where he was chair to the faculty of natural history from 1864 to 1872. In 1872 he was appointed professor of ichthyology and herpetology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He was named director of the laboratory of teratology, and from 1875, associated with the École des Hautes-études. He was awarded the grand prize in physiology by the Académie de...

#18372

Christopher James Alexander

1887 - 1917 (30 years)

Christopher James Alexander was an English ornithologist. He was the son of Joseph Gundry Alexander and the brother of ornithologists Wilfred Backhouse Alexander and Horace Gundry Alexander. Early life Alexander was born on 24 March 1887 in Croydon, England, and was educated at Bootham School, York and the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye. He gained a BSc in Agriculture in 1908 from the college and remained there as staff for the next year. In 1909, after devoting some time to mycological work in England, Alexander left for Rome to take up a post as redacteur at the International Insti...

#18373

Mary Welleck Garretson

Mary Welleck Garretson

1896 - 1971 (75 years)

Mary Welleck Garretson was an American geologist. Garretson had a passion for teaching earlier in her career, obtaining her first job at the Young Men's Christian Association . From 1921 to 1923, she instructed an introductory geology course, which happened to be the first geology course conducted through this institution. Garretson was subsequently employed as a consultant within the fields of paleontology and stratigraphy.

#18374

Kitty Ponse

1897 - 1982 (85 years)

Kitty Ponse was a Swiss zoologist and endocrinologist. She was a professor at the University of Geneva and received the Swiss Otto Naegeli Prize in 1961. Life and career Ponse was born in Sumatra, then part of the Dutch East Indies, to Dutch parents in 1897. At the age of eight she and her family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where she later studied science at the University of Geneva. She completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Geneva in 1922 that focused on embryological development. While the focus of her earlier research and publications was pure zoology, including tail regenerat...

#18375

Alfred Eisenack

1891 - 1982 (91 years)

Alfred Eisenack was a German paleontologist. He was a pioneer of micropaleontology and palynology. His botanical and mycological author abbreviation is "Eisenack". Eisenack took his photographs using a Leitz monocular microscope, to which he attached a box camera fashioned from a biscuit tin and furnished with glass negatives. He first described chitinozoans and many species of acritarchs, dinoflagellate cysts and graptolites. In 1973 he became an honorary member of the Paleontological Society.

#18376

Henry Morselli

1852 - 1929 (77 years)

Enrico "Henry" Agostino Morselli was an Italian physician and psychical researcher. Morselli was professor at the University of Turin. He is best known for the publication of his influential book, Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics claiming that suicide was primarily the result of the struggle for life and nature's evolutionary process.

#18377

Friedrich Vierhapper

1844 - 1903 (59 years)

Friedrich Vierhapper was an Austrian amateur botanist. He was the father of botanist Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper , botanical abbreviation- "Vierh.". He obtained his education in Salzburg and Vienna, later working as an instructor at a high school in Weidenau and at the gymnasium in Ried im Innkreis .

#18378

Helen Jean Brown

1903 - 1982 (79 years)

Dr. Helen Jean Bromley was an American botanist and phycologist noted for her study of the algal family Vaucheriaceae. She earned her PhD from Ohio State University, in 1929. She published using her maiden name, and served as both an instructor of botany and registrar at the University of Connecticut. She was married to entomologist Stanley Willard Bromley.

#18379

Helena Krzemieniewska

1878 - 1966 (88 years)

Helena Krzemieniewska was a Polish botanist and microbiologist, noted for studying myxobacteria and myxophyta in soil. Works

#18380

Brian Hocking

1914 - 1974 (60 years)

Brian Hocking was a Canadian entomologist known for his work in medical entomology on blood-sucking flies, particularly black-flies and mosquitoes. He was also a specialist on insect host detection and flight. He was also the author of several popular books dealing with biology and entomology.

#18381

David van Royen

1727 - 1799 (72 years)

David van Royen was a Dutch physician and botanist who worked at the Leiden Botanical Gardens where he succeeded his uncle Adriaan van Royen as director. Van Royen was born in an upper-class family in Leiden where his father David van Royen was a well-known jurist and administrator. He studied medicine and became a physician in 1752. He published a book, Oratio de hortis publicis præstantissimis scientiae botanicae adminiculis in 1754. and became a professor of botany and director of the Hortus botanicus at Leiden in the same year. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1752. He greatly add...

#18382

Robert Gaupp

1870 - 1953 (83 years)

Robert Eugen Gaupp was a German psychiatrist and neurologist who was a native of Neuenbürg, Württemberg. Gaupp was an assistant to Carl Wernicke and Karl Bonhoeffer at Breslau, and afterwards worked with Emil Kraepelin at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich. From 1908 to 1936 he was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Tübingen. One of his assistants was Ernst Kretschmer. Following World War II, he was departmental head of health and welfare for the city of Stuttgart .

#18383

Theodore Dalrymple

#18384

Władysław Rydzewski

1911 - 1980 (69 years)

Władysław Rydzewski was a Polish professor of zoology who specialized in ornithology and founded the journal The Ring in 1954. Władysław Rydzewski Museum of Natural History in Wroclaw was named in his honour.

#18385

Paul Schulze

1887 - 1949 (62 years)

Paul Schulze was "the most important German tick taxonomist of the early 20th century." Between 1929 and 1937, he described 19 genera, 17 subgenera, 150 species and 150 subspecies of ixodid ticks. He was essentially an amateur taxonomist, working alone for most of his career, not consulting the major tick collections or collaborating with other tick taxonomists.

#18386

Otto Schneider-Orelli

1880 - 1965 (85 years)

Otto Schneider-Orelli was a Swiss entomologist. He studied natural sciences at the universities of Neuchâtel and Bern . Following graduation, he worked as an assistant under Hermann Müller-Thurgau at the research institute for arboriculture, horticulture and viticulture in Wädenswil, where from 1913, he worked as an entomologist. From 1928 to 1950 he served as an associate professor of entomology at ETH Zurich and as director of the Institute of Entomology.

#18387

Regina Kapeller-Adler

1900 - 1991 (91 years)

Regina Kapeller-Adler, born Regina Kapeller, was an Austrian biochemist who, in 1934, devised an innovative test for early pregnancy based on the detection of histidine in urine. As a Jew, she was forced to leave Austria following the country's annexation into Nazi Germany in the Anschluss and went to work with the noted geneticist Francis Crew at the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.

#18388

Julius Mac Leod

Julius Mac Leod

1857 - 1919 (62 years)

Julius Mac Leod , was a Belgian biologist and professor at the University of Ghent. His father was of Scottish descent. Mac Leod was born in Ostend. He was also director of the botanical garden. Julius Mac Leod was an active member of the Flemish movement and a proponent of the usage of Flemish at the University of Ghent. He died in Ghent during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918–1919.

#18389

Otto von Wettstein

1892 - 1967 (75 years)

Otto von Wettstein, name also given as Otto Wettstein-Westersheimb, was an Austrian zoologist. He was the son of botanist Richard Wettstein and the brother of botanist Fritz von Wettstein. He is best remembered for his work in the field of herpetology; of his 205 published scientific papers, 60 of these involved herpetological topics.

#18390

Kathleen Sampson

1892 - 1980 (88 years)

Kathleen Sampson was an English mycologist and plant pathologist, with a focus in herbage crops and cereal diseases. She was a leading authority on smut fungi growing in the British Isles. Early life Sampson was born on 23 November 1892 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She received her Bachelor of Science from Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1914. During her study Sampson was awarded the London University Gilchrist Scholarship for Women in 1913, and the Driver Scholarship for Botany in 1914 as well as being awarded the Driver essay prize in 1914. She graduated with her Masters in ...

#18391

Ferdinand Karsch

1853 - 1936 (83 years)

Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist. He also wrote on human and animal sexual diversity with his mother's maiden name included as Ferdinand Karsch-Haack from around 1905.

#18392

Victor Protopopov

1880 - 1957 (77 years)

Victor Pavlovich Protopopov was a famous Ukrainian Soviet psychiatrist and, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Being a pupil of Vladimir Bekhterev, Protopopov founded his own pathophysiological school of thought in the Soviet psychiatry. Victor Pavlovich Protopopov authored more than 110 articles.

#18393

Henry Cotton

1876 - 1933 (57 years)

Henry Andrews Cotton was an American psychiatrist and the medical director of the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton , in Trenton, New Jersey. During his tenure from 1907 to 1930, Cotton and his staff employed experimental surgery and bacteriology techniques on patients, which included the routine removal of some or all of patients' teeth as well as tonsils, spleens, colons, ovaries, and other organs. These pseudoscientific practices persisted even after statistical reviews disproved Cotton's claims of high cure rates and revealed high mortality rates as a result of these procedures.

#18394

Alfred Merz

1880 - 1925 (45 years)

Alfred Merz was an Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died of pneumonia in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf. Merz Peninsula is named after him.

#18395

John Wright

1811 - 1846 (35 years)

John Wright was an American physician and botanist. Wright was Amos Eaton's student and co-authored the last, eighth, edition of the Manual of Botany. He had one son, with Mary Cottrell, who died on September 18, 1841. In 1833, he graduated with a medical degree from Yale College. He went on to be a professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a lecturer for the Rensselaer County Medical Society. For two years he associated in practice with Thomas C. Brinsmade.

#18396

Margery Knight

1889 - 1973 (84 years)

Margery Knight was an algologist, artist and lecturer at the Port Erin Marine Biological Station, University of Liverpool. Career Knight was a lecturer in botany at University of Liverpool from 1912 until she retired in 1954. She was based at the University’s Port Erin Marine Biological Station on the Isle of Man.

#18397

Heinrich Philipp August Damerow

1798 - 1866 (68 years)

Heinrich Philipp August Damerow was a German psychiatrist born in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Prussia . He made significant contributions in the field of institutional psychiatry. In 1822 he earned his doctorate in Berlin, where he was a student of Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher and psychiatrist Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn. He continued his education in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and at the Siegburg asylum north of Bonn, where he met with Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi. In 1830 he became an associate professor, and in 1836 was appointed director of Provinzial-Irrenanstalt near Halle.

#18398

Günter Dietrich

1911 - 1972 (61 years)

Günter Dietrich was a German oceanographer. He was the first to describe the Agulhas Current in detail, he provided essential contributions to the understanding of bottom water exchange in the North Atlantic and he shaped marine research in Germany after World War II.

#18399

Chellapilla Venkata Rao

1910 - 1971 (61 years)

Chellapilla Venkata Rao was an Indian botanist. Education He was awarded his PhD from the University of Tasmania in 1957 with a thesis entitled Cytotaxonomic studies in the Proteaceae. Academic appointments He worked in the Department of Botany, Andhra University, Waltair, from 1948 to 1967. During this period he worked for three years on the Palmaceae as a senior post-doctoral fellow of the National Institute of Science of India. From 1955 to 1957, under the Colombo plan as a post-doctoral research scholar working with H.N. Barber at the University of Tasmania, he received a PhD . From 1967 ...

#18400

Johann Joseph Peyritsch

1835 - 1889 (54 years)

Johann Joseph Peyritsch was an Austrian physician and botanist born in Völkermarkt. In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from Vienna, and from 1866 to 1871 was associated with Vienna General Hospital. He later served as custos at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, and in 1878, succeeded Anton Kerner von Marilaun as professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck, a position he maintained until his death in 1889.

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