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#18501

Henry A. Schroeder

1906 - 1975 (69 years)

Henry Alfred Schroeder M.D., F.A.C.P was an American physiologist and writer. Schroeder was born in Short Hills, New Jersey and graduated from Yale College in 1929. He obtained his medical degree from the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933. During 1939-1942 he served as an assistant in medicine at Rockefeller Institute Hospital.

#18502

Abraham Munting

1626 - 1683 (57 years)

Abraham Munting was a Dutch botanist and botanical artist, the son of Henricus Munting . He studied under his father and at the universities of Franeker, Utrecht and Leiden, also spending two years in France where he obtained an M.D. degree in Angers. Returning to Groningen in 1651, he joined the staff at the Rijkshogeschool Groningen, which eventually became the University of Groningen. Here he taught for 24 years as professor of botany and chemistry. On his father's death he assumed management of the Hortus Botanicus Groninganus, a botanical garden, from 1658 to 1683. His botanist friends sent him seeds from the Dutch East- and West Indies, Africa and the Americas.

#18503

Aleksandr Bartenev

1882 - 1946 (64 years)

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev was a zoologist, professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences, and Rector of Rostov University in 1920—1921. He was active in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.

#18504

Samarendra Maulik

1881 - 1950 (69 years)

Samarendra Nath Maulik was an Indian entomologist who worked at the Natural History Museum, London and specialized in the systematics of the leaf beetles. He worked briefly at the University of Calcutta as a professor of Zoology. A structure on the hind femur, particularly of flea beetles, and used in their leaping motion has sometimes been called as "Maulik's organ".

#18505

Karlis Princis

1893 - 1978 (85 years)

Kārlis Aleksandrs Princis was a Latvian-born biologist who contributed to the study of the Blattodea while working at the Museum at Riga and later in Sweden. Princis was born in Venta, near Ventspils and was educated at the Riga Polytechnic. He served during World War I in the Russian army and returned to the university, receiving a master's degree in 1934 and joining the Zoological Institute in 1940. He became a director of the Museum of Natural History at Riga in 1942. In 1944 he took refuge in Sweden with assistance from N.A. Kemner at Lund University. He lived in Vastmanland in 1973 and d...

#18506

Richard Relhan

1754 - 1823 (69 years)

Richard Relhan was a botanist, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and author of a renowned book about the plants around Cambridge. Relhan, the son of Dr. Anthony Relhan, was born at Dublin in 1754. He was elected a King's Scholar at Westminster School in 1767, and was admitted a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, on 7 May 1773. He graduated B.A. in 1776 and M.A. in 1779, and, having taken holy orders, was chosen in 1781 fellow and conduct of King's College, Cambridge.

#18507

Friedrich Christian Gregor Wernekinck

1798 - 1835 (37 years)

Friedrich Christian Gregor Wernekinck was a German anatomist. His specialties were anatomy and mineralogy. Wernekinck was born in Münster in 1798. After attending the University of Münster and University of Göttingen, he received his doctorate at the University of Giessen, where he became a full professor of philosophy in 1826. He died in 1835.

#18508

Thomas Johnson

1600 - 1644 (44 years)

Thomas Johnson was an English botanist, and a royalist colonel in the English Civil War. He has been called the "father of British field botany". Life Johnson was born at Selby in Yorkshire between 1595 and 1600. He seems to have received a good education, and to have become an apothecary in London by 1626. Possibly before that he was living in Lincolnshire . In 1629 he was in business on Snow Hill, city of London, where he had a physic-garden, and had become a prominent member of the Apothecaries' Company.

#18509

Joseph de Joannis

1864 - 1932 (68 years)

Joseph de Joannis was a French clergyman and lepidopterist. De Joannis was the president of the Société entomologique de France from 1908 to 1916. His father Léon-Daniel de Joannis was an entomologist and an ichthyologist.

#18510

Johann Friedrich Laurer

1798 - 1873 (75 years)

Johann Friedrich Laurer was a German anatomist, pharmacologist and lichenologist. He initially trained as a pharmacist, of which, he worked as an assistant under Heinrich Christian Funck at the pharmacy in Gefrees. He made the acquaintance of David Heinrich Hoppe, who inspired him to learn botany, and by way of an invitation from bryologist Christian Friedrich Hornschuch, he became a student at the University of Greifswald.

#18511

David de Gorter

David de Gorter

1717 - 1783 (66 years)

David de Gorter was a Dutch physician and botanist. De Gorter was a professor at the University of Harderwijk and royal physician to Empress Elizabeth of Russia. He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and other academies and learned societies.

#18512

Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew

Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew

1912 - 1985 (73 years)

Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew was an American botanist dedicated to the study of plant systematics. Early life Bartholomew was born on June 14, 1912, in Wheeling, West Virginia. Influenced by her naturalist father, she became interested in the natural sciences at a young age. When she was 12 Bartholomew joined the Girl Scouts, and she subsequently earned all of the nature badges. After high school, Bartholomew attended West Virginia University. She became interested in botany during her freshman year after taking a class taught by Perry Daniel Strausbaugh.

#18513

Eben Gowrie Waterhouse

1881 - 1977 (96 years)

Eben Gowrie Waterhouse was an Australian who had three distinguished careers. Starting out as an innovative teacher of languages, he became one of Australia's most prominent Germanists when classical German culture still commanded worldwide respect. Between the Wars in Sydney he was a leading arbiter of taste in house-and-garden living, fostering a conception of garden design which still dominates much of the Sydney North Shore and parts of Melbourne. Finally, in his long retirement he brought about, as scholar and plant-breeder, an international revival of interest in the genus Camellia.

#18514

George Watt

1851 - 1930 (79 years)

Sir George Watt was a Scottish physician and botanist who worked in India as "Reporter" on economic botany and during the course of his career in India he compiled a major multivolume work, The Dictionary of Economic Products of India, the last volume of which was published in 1893. An abridged edition of his work was also published as the single volume Commercial Products of India in 1908. He is honoured in the binomials of several plants named after him.

#18515

Albrecht Zimmermann

1860 - 1931 (71 years)

Philipp Wilhelm Albrecht Zimmermann was a German botanist. He was a Professor of Botany at several different Universities . He was a botanist and collector of fungi and spermatophytes, who worked in Indonesia and Tanzania from 1902 to 1919. He moved to Indonesia in 1896 and studied applied botany. In 1902 he moved to Africa to join the Amani Research Institute that was established that year. He returned to Germany after World War I in 1920.

#18516

Alexander Nikolsky

Alexander Nikolsky

1858 - 1942 (84 years)

Alexander Mikhailovich Nikolsky was a Russian and Ukrainian zoologist born in Astrakhan. From 1877 to 1881, he studied at the University of St. Petersburg, earning his doctorate several years later in 1887. From 1881 to 1891, he took part in numerous expeditions to Siberia, the Caucasus, Persia, Japan, et al. In 1887 he became an associate professor in St. Petersburg, later becoming director of the herpetology department at the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences .

#18517

Johann Heinrich Dierbach

1788 - 1845 (57 years)

Johann Heinrich Dierbach was a German pharmacist and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, receiving his doctorate in 1816. During the following year, he became a lecturer at Heidelberg and in 1820 an associate professor. At the university, he taught classes on subjects with botanical and medico-pharmacological themes.

#18518

Alejandro Korn

1860 - 1936 (76 years)

Alejandro Korn was an Argentine psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiatry hospital in Melchor Romero . He was the first university official in Latin America to be elected thanks to the student's vote. He is considered to be the pioneer of Argentine philosophy. Along with Florentino Ameghino, Juan Vucetich, Almafuerte and Carlos Spegazzini, he is considered to be one of the five wise men of La Plata.

#18519

Alan John Flisher

#18520

Marian E. Hubbard

1868 - 1956 (88 years)

Marian Elizabeth Hubbard was an American zoologist and associate professor of zoology at Wellesley College, where she taught for over 40 years. Early life Marian Elizabeth Hubbard was born in McGregor, Iowa, to parents Rodolphus and Hanna Hubbard, In 1886 she graduated from McGregor school. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary until 1889 and graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. in 1894.

#18521

Marinus J. A. Werger

#18522

John Hugh Lyon Playfair

#18523

Ernst Schwalbe

1871 - 1920 (49 years)

Ernst Theodor Karl Schwalbe was a German pathologist, who specialized in teratological research. Schwalbe was born in Berlin. He studied medicine at the universities of Strassburg, Berlin and Heidelberg, and received his habilitation in 1900 with a thesis on blood coagulation. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant under Julius Arnold at Heidelberg, and in 1907/08 served as prosector and head of the pathology-bacteriology clinic at the city hospital in Karlsruhe. From 1908 to 1920 he was a full professor at the University of Rostock. He was killed in Rostock while serving as a volunteer during...

#18524

Ernst Julius Gurlt

Ernst Julius Gurlt

1825 - 1899 (74 years)

Ernst Julius Gurlt was a German surgeon born in Berlin. He was the son of veterinarian Ernst Friedrich Gurlt . He studied medicine in Berlin, where he later became an assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck. In 1853 he received his habilitation for surgery, becoming an associate professor in 1862 at the University of Berlin. He gained battle-related surgical experience during the First Schleswig War , Second Schleswig War , Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War .

#18525

Wolfgang W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker

#18526

S. A. Beach

1860 - 1923 (63 years)

Spencer Ambrose Beach , commonly known as S.A. Beach, was an American botanist. Beach served the head of the horticulture department at the University of Iowa and was a founding member of the American Society for Horticultural Science.

#18527

Timothy Field Allen

1837 - 1902 (65 years)

Timothy Field Allen was an American physician and botanist. Timothy Field Allen was born on in Westminster, Vermont. He graduated A. B. at Amherst College in 1858, and subsequently received the degree of A. M. from the same institution. He graduated M. D. in 1861 at the University of the City of New York and in the same year commenced practice at Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1862 he was an acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army, and in the following year established himself in New York City, which remained the field of his labors for nearly forty years. Becoming associated professionally with Dr.

#18528

Giuseppe Sterzi

1876 - 1919 (43 years)

Giuseppe Nazzareno Sterzi was an Italian anatomist, neuroanatomist and medical historian. Although his research activity encompassed no more than fifteen years, the themes treated by Sterzi are relevant to neuroanatomy and history of anatomy. Sterzi’s research on comparative neuroanatomy and embryology were acknowledged by numerous contemporaries and many of his discoveries were soon incorporated into anatomy textbooks. Sterzi was awarded several scientific prizes, among which were the ‘Premio Fossati’ of the Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e di Lettere, Milano in 1909 and the ‘Prix Lalle...

#18529

Judson Linsley Gressitt

1914 - 1982 (68 years)

Judson Linsley Gressitt was an American entomologist and naturalist who worked in Japan and China. He worked mainly on beetle diversity in Southeast Asia and in applied areas, particularly medical entomology, and was the founder of the journal Pacific Insects and the Wau Ecology Institute in Papua New Guinea. Apart from insects, he collected specimens in numerous taxa and several have been named after him.

#18530

Louis Lewin

1850 - 1929 (79 years)

Louis Lewin was a German pharmacologist. In 1887 he received his first sample of the Peyote cactus from Dallas, Texas-based physician John Raleigh Briggs , and later published the first methodical analysis of it, causing a variant to be named Anhalonium lewinii in his honor.

#18531

Runar Collander

1894 - 1973 (79 years)

Paul Runar Collander was a Finnish botanist. He was an adjunct professor of plant physiology at the University of Helsinki from 1935 to 1939, and professor of botany from 1939 to 1961. He gained international acclaim for his research on the effect of molecular size and solubility ratios on the ability of substances to penetrate the cell membrane. He presented the "lipoid filter theory" of permeability and further developed it. Collander also wrote several works on the history of botany.

#18532

Giovanni Bianchi

Giovanni Bianchi

1693 - 1775 (82 years)

Giovanni Bianchi , also known as Jano Planco, was an Italian physician, anatomist, archaeologist, zoologist and intellectual. He wrote numerous medical texts and De Conchis minus notis liber , a work on Foraminifera, and maintained a cabinet of curiosities.

#18533

Helmut Gams

1893 - 1976 (83 years)

Helmut Gams was a central European botanist. Born in Brno, he moved to Zürich as a child. He studied at the University of Zurich, being awarded a PhD in 1918. During his career, he worked at the University of Munich and the University of Innsbruck. His research saw him pursue fieldwork around Europe and Asia. He was a geobotanist who specialized in the associations of different species of mosses and lichens with each other and the environment. Gams coined the terms 'biocoenology' and 'phytocoenology' in his 1918 PhD thesis.

#18534

Giuseppe Nobili

1877 - 1908 (31 years)

Giuseppe Nobili was an Italian zoologist at the University of Turin, specialising in Crustacea, who was born at Omegna in Piedmont in 1877 and died at Omegna in 1908. His father was Dr. Gaudenzio Nobili and his mother, Adele Antonioli Nobili.

#18535

Won Hong-gu

1888 - 1970 (82 years)

Won Hong-gu or Won Hong Koo was an ornithologist, professor and a member of the Supreme People's Assembly in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea . He was the first to establish the names of local birds in the Korean language and to publish a major ornithological monograph for the region. He was also a specialist on small mammals. He was separated from his children during the liberation of Korea from Japanese rule and its separation. Unknown to him, due to the political barriers between South and North Korea, his son Won Pyong-oh also became an eminent ornithologist in South Korea. The ...

#18536

George Miksch Sutton

George Miksch Sutton

1898 - 1982 (84 years)

George Miksch Sutton was an American ornithologist and bird artist. He published numerous technical papers in ornithology as well as more popular works illustrated with his own art. His early artistic work was inspired and tutored by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. In 1931, he was the first ornithologist to find the eggs of the Harris's sparrow, one of the last North American birds to have its nest and eggs described. In 1935. he was part of the team of Arthur Augustus Allen during an expedition to the Singer Tract in Louisiana to make sketches of ivory-billed woodpecker. He did extensive field work in the Arctic , Oklahoma, Labrador, and Mexico.

#18537

Edward Henry Hare

#18538

Charles Branch Wilson

1861 - 1941 (80 years)

Charles Branch Wilson was an American scientist, a marine biologist. He is known for his extensive work on copepods, minute crustaceans. Early life and education Charles Branch Wilson was born in Exeter, Maine on October 20, 1861. He received his bachelor's and master's degree from Colby College of Waterville, Maine. He completed his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University in 1910.

#18539

Vladimir Barykin

1879 - 1939 (60 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Barykin was a Russian microbiologist and epidemiologist. Biography Vladimir Aleksandrovich Barykin was born on 22 November 1879 in Oryol Governorate. He graduated from the Kazan Imperial University in 1900.

#18540

Simon Syrenius

1540 - 1611 (71 years)

Simon Syrenius was a pre-Linnean Polish botanist and academic. A native of Oświęcim, he taught at the Jagiellonian University. Anna Vasa served as his patron, and with her help, Syrenius published a botanic atlas in five volumes consisting of 1,540 pages describing 765 plants.

#18541

L. Bryan Ray

#18542

Paul Roberts Cannon

1892 - 1986 (94 years)

Paul Roberts Cannon was an American physician and medical professor. He was a pioneer in the study of nutritional effects on immune response. Education Cannon completed his undergraduate education at Millikin University, graduating in 1915. His training was interrupted by World War I, during which he spent two years as a lieutenant with the US Army Sanitary Corps. After the war, he studied bacteriology at the University of Chicago, receiving his doctorate in 1921. He spent two years as a professor of pathology and bacteriology at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, before return...

#18543

Robert Arnot Staig

1878 - 1963 (85 years)

Robert Arnot Staig FRSE was a 20th-century Scottish entomologist and zoologist who served as Curator of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow University. Life He was born in 1878, possibly the son of William Staig, a shipmaster, living at 165 Ferry Road in Leith.

#18544

John Clayton

1694 - 1773 (79 years)

John Clayton was an Anglican minister in and for decades clerk for Gloucester County in the Colony of Virginia who is today best known as a plant collector and botanist. He may be confused with several distant family members, including Rev. John Clayton who served as minister at Jamestown and conducted various scientific experiments, before returning to England .

#18545

Noël Bernard

1874 - 1911 (37 years)

Noël Pierre Joseph León Bernard was a French botanist, known as the famous discoverer of the symbiotic germination of orchid seeds. He also discovered Phytoalexins which are antimicrobial and often antioxidative substances synthesized de novo by plants that accumulate rapidly at areas of pathogen infection.

#18546

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.

#18547

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...

#18548

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...

#18549

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.

#18550

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.

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