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#20351

Manfred Aschner

1901 - 1989 (88 years)

Manfred Aschner was an Israeli microbiologist and entomologist. Biography Aschner was born in Germany in 1901. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924 and joined in the efforts to eradicate malaria from the country.

#20352

John M. Dorsey

1900 - 1978 (78 years)

John Morris Dorsey was an author and professor of psychiatry at Wayne State University. Born in Clinton, Iowa, Dorsey earned his M.D. from the University of Iowa in 1925. From 1930 to 1935 he taught in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1935, Dorsey moved with his family to Vienna, Austria, to study under Sigmund Freud, a course of study which included psychoanalysis by Freud personally. In 1940 Dorsey accepted a position as psychiatrist and head of Mental Hygiene Services at Wayne University in Detroit. In 1946 he was appointed Chairman of Psychiatry.

#20353

William Lorenz

1882 - 1958 (76 years)

William F. Lorenz was a Major in the United States Army Medical Corps during World War I. He was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his combat actions in France, and had previously served a tour of duty during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Lorenz was also a prominent faculty member at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, Wisconsin, in the department of Neuropsychiatry. He remained in the U.S. Army National Guard after his service in Europe, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel .

#20354

Vladimir Gulevich

Vladimir Gulevich

1867 - 1933 (66 years)

Vladimir Sergeevich Gulevich was a Russian Empire and Soviet biochemist who first isolated carnitine from mammalian muscle. Biography Gulevich graduated in 1890 and received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1896 from the department of medicine of Moscow State University. From 1899 to 1900 he was a professor at the University of Kharkov. From 1900, he joined the Moscow State University where he was rector for a brief period of time in 1919. Vladimir Sergeevich Gulevich was elected member of Leopoldina in 1928. He was a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1929.

#20355

Paul Gelting

1905 - 1964 (59 years)

Paul Emil Elliot Gelting was a Danish ecologist, botanist and lichenologist. He was associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and particularly active in Greenland. Gelting participated in the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland 1931-34 led by Lauge Koch and the expedition 1938–39 to Northeast Greenland led by Eigil Knuth. From 1946 to 1954, he headed the Arctic Station Qeqertarsuaq, which had been founded by Morten Pedersen Porsild.

#20356

Mary Foster

1865 - 1960 (95 years)

Mary Louise Foster was an American biochemist, research chemist and educator. Education Mary Louise Foster was born on April 20, 1865, in Melrose, Massachusetts. Between the years of 1878–1883, she attended the Girls' Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts, and later went on to study Classics at Smith College from 1888 to 1891. After her graduation, Foster taught Chemistry and Physics at West Roxbury High School while enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston . In 1912, she received her master's degree from Smith, and two years later earned her PhD from the University of Chicago.

#20357

Léon Fairmaire

1820 - 1906 (86 years)

Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire was a French entomologist. As a specialist in Coleoptera, he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean . This is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera . He also worked on Hemiptera.

#20358

Harriet George Barclay

1901 - 1990 (89 years)

Harriet George Barclay was an American botanist, plant ecologist, nature conservationist, and artist. Biography Barclay was a professor at the University of Tulsa. She later became Chair of the Botany Department in 1953.

#20359

Henry Edwards

1827 - 1891 (64 years)

Henry Edwards , known as "Harry", was an English stage actor, writer and entomologist who gained fame in Australia, San Francisco and New York City for his theatre work. Edwards was drawn to the theatre early in life, and he appeared in amateur productions in London. After sailing to Australia, Edwards appeared professionally in Shakespearean plays and light comedies primarily in Melbourne and Sydney. Throughout his childhood in England and his acting career in Australia, he was greatly interested in collecting insects, and the National Museum of Victoria used the results of his Australian fie...

#20360

Francis Lewis

1875 - 1955 (80 years)

Prof Francis John Lewis FRSE FRSC FLS was an English botanist. He was Professor of Botany at Alberta University and later at the University of Cairo. Life He was born in London in 1875. He studied Science at Liverpool University and specialised in Botany. He started working as a Demonstrator during Botany lectures in 1900 and began lecturing in Phytogeography in 1905. He gained an MSc in 1908 and a doctorate in 1912.

#20361

John Mortimer

1656 - 1736 (80 years)

John Mortimer was an English merchant, and writer on agriculture, known for The whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of Managing and Improving of Land published in London in 1707. Biography John was born in 1656, the only son and heir of Mark Mortimer, grocer of London, by his wife Abigail Walmesley of Blackmore in Essex, who married 3rd October 1651 in the parish of St Anne and St Agnes, London. His father was born into a yeoman family of Bow, Devon, and had a brother Peter who also entered into a commercial profession. John Mortimer received a commercial education, and became a prosperous merchant on Tower Hill.

#20362

David Miller

1890 - 1973 (83 years)

David Miller was a notable New Zealand entomologist, university lecturer and scientific administrator. He was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 21 February 1890. Scientific contributions Miller's career in entomology started at the Biological Laboratory in Levin, New Zealand, where he investigated the insect fauna of New Zealand flax for the New Zealand Department of Agriculture. Later, he worked with the Department of Health to study mosquitos. Miller's research was also fundamental to timber preservation, especially in controlling insect pests.

#20363

Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus

1894 - 1951 (57 years)

Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus was a Java-born, Dutch university teacher, entomologist, lepidopterist and botanical collector. In 1921-1922 he participated in the Royal Dutch Geographical and Treub Society expedition to the western Maluku Islands. He gained his doctoral degree in 1930 at the University of Amsterdam and then returned to the island of Java. He mainly worked in Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and specialised in the families Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae. In 1934 he collected in Sumatra. In 1938-1939 he participated in the Third Archbold Expedition to Dutch New Guinea....

#20364

Igino Cocchi

1827 - 1913 (86 years)

Igino Cocchi was an Italian geologist and paleontologist who worked at the Museum of Natural History, Florence. Cicchi was born in Terrarossa, Val di Magra where and studied Latin and natural sciences, graduating from the University of Pisa. training under Giuseppe Meneghini, after which he travelled to England during which time he made contact with Charles Darwin. He founded the Alpine Club of Florence in 1867 and the first Italian geology journal Bollettino del Reale Comitato Geologico d’Italia.

#20365

Ernest Dunlop

1893 - 1969 (76 years)

Ernest McMurchie Dunlop FRSE MC was a Scottish bacteriologist who also served with distinction in the First World War, winning the Military Cross. Life He was born in Glasgow on 15 November 1893 the son of Thomas Dunlop, a chemist in the Pollokshields district, and his wife Grace McFadyean. He attended Hutchesons' Grammar School and in 1910, aged 16, went to Glasgow University to study Medicine. He received distinctions in Anatomy and Physiology and also qualified in Gynaecology. In 1916 he won the Brunton Memorial Prize for Distinction in Medicine.

#20366

Nikolai Krasilnikov

1896 - 1973 (77 years)

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Krasilnikov was a Soviet microbiologist, bacteriologist and soil scientist. Tribute Krasilnikovia cinnamomea is a bacterial genus named after him of the family Micromonosporaceae

#20367

Teodor Odhner

1879 - 1928 (49 years)

Nils Johan Teodor Odhner was a Swedish zoologist. Odhner was born in Lund, Sweden. He was the son of the historian and archivist Clas Theodor Odhner and the father of the agronomist Clas-Erik Odhner.

#20368

John Thomas Baldwin

1910 - 1974 (64 years)

John Thomas Baldwin Jr. was an American botanist. He specialized in cytogenetics of plants and in his early career studied the family Crassulaceae. In 1946 Baldwin was appointed professor at his alma mater, the College of William & Mary. He also worked for the US Department of Agriculture, accompanying their expeditions to Africa. During the 1947–48 US Economic Mission to Liberia Baldwin discovered that Strophanthus sarmentosus was a natural source of the steroid hormone cortisone and it was subsequently used for the manufacture of drugs. He planted an extensive collection of plants on the college campus, which later botanists claimed to be one of the most important in the country.

#20369

George Alexander Louis Lebour

1847 - 1918 (71 years)

George Alexander Louis Lebour, MA, DSc, FGS was an English geologist. Lebour was educated at the Royal School of Mines and was then a staff member of the Geological Survey from 1873 to 1876. At the Durham College of Science, he was a lecturer in geological surveying from 1876 to 1879 and then succeeded David Page as professor of geology upon the latter's death in 1879. Lebour held this professorial chair until his own death in 1918.

#20370

Hamilton Herbert Druce

1869 - 1922 (53 years)

Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce was an English entomologist who specialised in Lycaenidae and to a lesser extent Hesperiidae. He is not to be confused with his father, the English entomologist Herbert Druce who also worked on Lepidoptera.

#20371

Robert Sommer

1864 - 1937 (73 years)

Karl Robert Sommer was a german psychiatrist and genealogist born in Grottkau. He is remembered for his work in experimental psychology. He coined the term „Psychohygiene“ in 1901 and founded the „German Association for Psychohygiene“ and the „Society for Experimental Psychology“ . He is remembered for his work in experimental psychology. He also published on genealogy, philosophy, and forensics. He was also an active inventor and involved in local politics.

#20372

William P. Brooks

William P. Brooks

1851 - 1938 (87 years)

William Penn Brooks was an American agricultural scientist, who worked as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan during the colonization project for Hokkaidō. He was the eighth president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Brooks is remembered as one of six Founders of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity in 1873.

#20373

John A. Ryder

1852 - 1895 (43 years)

John Adam Ryder , was an American zoologist and embryologist. He worked for the United States Fish Commission from 1880 to 1886 and Professor of Comparative Embryology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1886 to 1895.

#20374

Johann Andreas Scherer

Johann Andreas Scherer

1755 - 1844 (89 years)

Johann Baptist Andreas Ritter von Scherer was an Austrian chemist and botanist. Scherer was born in Prague. He studied chemistry at the universities of Prague and Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1782. As a student his instructors included botanists Joseph Gottfried Mikan and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. In 1797 he became a professor of chemistry at the Theresianum in Vienna, followed by a professorship at the Polytechnic Institute in Prague . From 1807 to 1834 he was a professor of specialized natural history at the University of Vienna.

#20375

Ichiro Miyake

1881 - 1964 (83 years)

was a Japanese mycologist.

#20376

Henri Hitier

1864 - 1958 (94 years)

Henri Hitier was a French agronomist. Family Henri-Joseph-Robert Hitier was born in Revelles, Somme, on 16 June 1864. His parents were Joseph Hitier, Consul-General of France in China, and Augustine Vauchelet . His brother was Joseph Hitier . Joseph became an assistant professor of law at the University of Grenoble and later Professor of Rural Economics at the National Agronomic Institute. Both were also involved in running the family-owned form in Revelles and a pasturage in Bray-lès-Mareuil. Henri married Thérèse Delepouve. They had several children including Jeanne Hitier , who married A...

#20377

Fukushi Masaichi

1878 - 1956 (78 years)

Fukushi Masaichi was a Japanese physician, pathologist and Emeritus Professor of Nippon Medical School in Tokyo. He was the founder or nite of the world's only known collection of tattoos taken from the dead. Fukushi Masaichi and his son Fukushi Katsunari are known in Japan as "Irezumi Hakase".

#20378

Evelyn Butler Tilden

1891 - 1983 (92 years)

Evelyn Butler Tilden was an American microbiologist who researched carbohydrates and bacteria in saliva at National Institutes of Health and Northwestern University Dental School. She later served as head of laboratories at Brookfield Zoo.

#20379

Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr.

Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr.

1873 - 1912 (39 years)

Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr. was an American zoologist who made important contributions to cell biology–especially in chromosomes and their roles in sex determination–as well as the biology of birds and several groups invertebrates, naming many species of ribbon worms, rotifers, and spiders. He studied in Berlin before becoming a researcher and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he primarily worked until his death at the age of 39. In his short career he published 80 scientific papers and two books.

#20380

F. L. Washburn

1860 - 1927 (67 years)

Frederic Leonard Washburn was an American zoologist. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he earned a B.A. and M.A. from Harvard University. Between 1888 and 1902 he was professor at Oregon State Agricultural College and biologist for the State of Oregon. He was Minnesota State Entomologist, professor, and chief of the Division of Entomology at University of Minnesota from 1902 to 1918. He was the 1911 president of the American Association of Economic Entomologists was made a fellow of the Entomological Society of America in 1924. His books include Injurious Insects and Useful Birds, and Inse...

#20381

Władysław Kulczyński

Władysław Kulczyński

1854 - 1919 (65 years)

Władysław Kulczyński was a Polish zoologist who specialised in arachnology. Works

#20382

Alexander Kistiakowsky

Alexander Kistiakowsky

1904 - 1983 (79 years)

Alexander Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky was a Ukrainian ornithologist and a specialist on bird lice. He was a brother of George Kistiakowsky. His contributions to ornithology included ideas on navigation by migrating birds, the mechanics of bird flight, and the publication of several regional avifaunas.

#20383

William of Saliceto

William of Saliceto

1210 - 1277 (67 years)

William of Salicet was an Italian surgeon and cleric in Saliceto. He broke tradition with Galen by claiming that pus formation was bad for wounds and for the patient. He was a professor at the University of Bologna. In 1275 he wrote Chirurgia which promoted the use of a surgical knife over cauterizing. He also was the author of Summa conservationis et curationis on hygiene and therapy. Lanfranc of Milan was a pupil who brought William's methods into France. William gave lectures on the importance of regular bathing for infants, and special care for the hygiene of pregnant women.

#20384

Albert Mousson

1805 - 1890 (85 years)

Albert Mousson, full name Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson, was a physicist and a malacologist from Switzerland. Taxa described Gastropods Taxa described by Albert Mousson include : 1847Cochlostoma apricum 1848Amphidromus palaceus Amphidromus porcellanus 1849Asperitas rareguttata Mousson, 1849Melampus granifer Sulcospira infracostata Sulcospira sulcospira Tylomelania perfecta 1854Albinaria virgo Assyriella bellardii Caucasotachea nordmanni Chondrus limbodentatus var. abbreviatus Mousson, 1854 Chondrus truquii Mousson, 1854 Euchondrus limbodentatus Helix nucula Mousson, 1854Helix nicosiana var. p...

#20385

Branislav Petronijević

Branislav Petronijević

1875 - 1954 (79 years)

Branislav "Brana" Petronijević was a Serbian philosopher and paleontologist. His major work is the two-volume Prinzipien der Metaphysik , in which he outlines his original metaphysical system – a synthesis of Baruch Spinoza's monism and Gottfried Leibniz's monadological pluralism into what he called "monopluralism". Influenced by George Berkeley and G.W.F. Hegel, Petronijević held that our immediate experience is the source of basic logical and metaphysical axioms – what he called "empirio-rationalist" epistemology.

#20386

Winifred B. Chase

1877 - 1949 (72 years)

Ethel Winifred Bennett Chase was an American botanist, a professor of botany and the dean of women at what is now Wayne State University. Chase was a member of a South Pacific botanical expedition led by Josephine E. Tilden in 1909–1910 and collected scientifically significant botanical specimens during that expedition. She was an active member of both Delta Delta Delta and the P.E.O Sisterhood and served in various administrative positions with both organisations.

#20387

Rudolf Raimann

1863 - 1896 (33 years)

Rudolf Raimann was an Austrian botanist. In 1889 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where his influences included botanist Julius Wiesner. He worked as a volunteer in the department of botany at the Imperial Natural History Museum, and for a period of time taught classes in natural history at the Handelsakademie in Vienna. The plant genus Raimannia of the family Onagraceae commemorates his name.

#20388

Otto Lowenstein

1889 - 1965 (76 years)

Otto Lowenstein was a German-American neuropsychiatrist who was a native of Osnabrück. He grew up in Preußisch Oldendorf, the son of Julius Lowenstein, a merchant, and Henriette Grunewald, into a Jewish family, and, when he was 19, began to study mathematics and philosophy at the University of Göttingen, before switching to medicine in another university.

#20389

John Gordon Harrower

1890 - 1936 (46 years)

John Gordon Harrower FRSE FRCSE was a Scottish anatomist. He was an expert on the human skull, and classified many separate Asiatic types. Harrower was born on 4 April 1890 in Glasgow the son of John Harrower in Langside in the south of the city. He won a scholarship to Allan Glen's School and was educated alongside contemporaries such as John Vernon Harrison. Initially training primarily in mathematics and electricity, in 1910 he obtained a senior post at Glasgow Tramways Power Station, which he retained until 1919.

#20390

Vittorio Calestani

1882 - 1949 (67 years)

Vittorio Emanuele Vincenzo Giuseppe Calestani was an Italian botanist at the University of Modena, whose work included a classification system for angiosperms. Selected publications Books Come si studiano le piante: manuale di botanica pratica Società Editrice "La Scuola", 733 pp.Origini della razza italiana: fondamenti della politica razzista Vol. 26 de Manuali di politica internazionale. Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, 298 pp.Natura in maschera: mimetismo e appariscenza negli animali e nelle piante Garzanti, 493 pp.

#20391

Jennie L. S. Simpson

Jennie L. S. Simpson

1894 - 1977 (83 years)

Jennie Laura Symons Simpson was a Canadian-American botanist and geneticist. Between 1929 and 1962, she was the professor of botany at Hunter College. Most of her research activities were focused on marine algae.

#20392

Emmett Goff

1852 - 1902 (50 years)

Emmett Stull Goff was a pioneering horticulturist, inventor, writer and educator best known for his early promotion of the cherry growing industry in Door County, Wisconsin. Early life and career Emmett Stull Goff was born on September 3, 1852, on a farm just south of Elmira, New York one of a family that eventually numbered five brothers and three sisters. Goff attended the common schools of New York and the Elmira Free Academy, from which he graduated in 1870. For the next five years, he worked on the family farm. By 1875, despite not having any formal experience as a teacher, he began a ...

#20393

Kathryn Ferguson Fink

1917 - 1989 (72 years)

Kathryn Ferguson Fink was an American biochemist known for her work in nuclear medicine, particularly in the use of radiolabeling to study metabolism. Fink spent most of her career at the University of California, Los Angeles, often collaborating with her fellow biochemist husband Robert Morgan Fink, and was the first Ph.D. to become a Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. She died of cancer in 1989.

#20394

Cora Jipson Beckwith

1875 - 1955 (80 years)

Cora Jipson Beckwith was an American zoologist who was a researcher and professor at Vassar College in New York. Life Beckwith was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to William Griswold Beckwith and Maria A. Jipson.

#20395

John Holloway

1881 - 1945 (64 years)

John Ernest Holloway, FRS was a New Zealand Anglican priest, botanist and university lecturer. Biography He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 12 February 1881 and educated at Nelson College and Auckland University College, where he was awarded DSc in 1917.

#20396

Ronald Hargreaves

1908 - 1962 (54 years)

George Ronald Hargreaves OBE, FRCP, MRCS was a civilian and military psychiatrist. Early life Hargreaves was born in Yorkshire[dubious] to James Arthur Hargreaves, and was the eldest of four children . He was educated at Mill Hill School and then studied medicine at University College London, where he was involved in the students' dramatic society. Hargreaves then attended University College Hospital Medical School, where he had the opportunity to become house physician and house surgeon. Hargreaves was unable to take up this appointment because the death of his father[dubious] required him t...

#20397

William-Henri Schopfer

1900 - 1962 (62 years)

William-Henri Schopfer was a Swiss plant physiologist who worked at the University of Bern. He examined the role of vitamins in plants. Schopfer was born in Yverdon to foreman Henry-Louis and Adele-Elisabeth née Hofer. He studied biology in Geneva under Robert Chodat and then worked with Hans Kniep in Berlin, obtaining a doctorate from Geneva in 1928. He then taught at high school before joining the University of Bern. His work was on vitamins and their role in plants. He showed that Phycomyces cannot survive without vitamin B1.

#20398

Florence Peebles

Florence Peebles

1874 - 1956 (82 years)

Florence Peebles was an American embryologist known for her research in animal regeneration and tissue formation. Born in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, to parents Elizabeth Southgate and Thomas Chalmers Peebles, she was educated in Baltimore, attending the Girls' Latin School and earning a B.A. from the Woman's College of Baltimore in 1895. She then attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, earning a PhD in 1900. She taught biology for thirty-three years, including at Bryn Mawr College, Goucher College, Tulane University, and California Christian College

#20399

Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer

1854 - 1916 (62 years)

Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer was a Dutch zoologist. Biography GCJ Vosmaer was born in 1854 in Oud-Beijerland, where his father, the poet and critic Carel Vosmaer was then a clerk at the subdistrict court. He studied in The Hague and subsequently at the University of Leiden, where he obtained his doctorate in 1880 with a thesis on sponges . In 1882 he became Anton Dohrn's assistant at his zoological station in Naples. In 1889 he returned to the Netherlands and became assistant to Professor Ambrosius Hubrecht in Utrecht. Later he became a private teacher and lecturer in Utrecht and in 1904 he...

#20400

Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank

Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank

1748 - 1816 (68 years)

The Hon Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank FRSE FSA was a Scottish advocate, academic jurist, judge and agriculturalist. Life The only son of Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank, Kirknewton, Midlothian, and his wife Isabella Allan, daughter of the Rev. Walter Allan, minister of Colinton in the same shire, was born on 26 January 1748. He was educated privately by Alexander Adam, and at the High School of Edinburgh. He entered the University of Edinburgh, where he attended the law classes. He was apprenticed to Thomas Tod, writer to the signet.

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