Marston Bates
Marston Bates | |
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| Born | July 23, 1906 |
| Died | April 3, 1974 (aged 67) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Florida Harvard University |
| Known for | Mosquitoes Yellow fever |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology Epidemiology |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
Marston Bates (July 23, 1906 – April 3, 1974) was an American zoologist. Bates' studies on mosquitoes contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America.
Born in Michigan, Bates received a BS in Biology from the University of Florida in 1927. He received an AM in Botany in 1933 and a PhD in Zoology in 1934, both from Harvard University.[1] He lived for many years in Villavicencio between the mountains and the llanos in central Colombia.[2] From 1952 until 1971 he was a professor at the University of Michigan.[1] He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America in 1940[3] and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.[4] He was the author of many popular science books. He was married to Nancy Bell Fairchild, daughter of the botanist David Fairchild and granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell.
In 1960, he published the ecological science book The Forest and the Sea, an introduction to how ecosystems work. He compares a rain forest and a tropical sea, their similarities and differences, and through it demonstrates how to understand biological systems.
Books[]
- The Nature of Natural History (1950) Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 309 pp.
- Where Winter Never Comes: A Study of Man and Nature in the Tropics (1952) Charles Scribner's Sons; New York
- The Natural History of Mosquitoes (1954) MacMillan; New York
- The Prevalence of People (1955) Charles Scribner's Sons; New York
- The Forest and the Sea (1960) Random House (1988) Lyons
- The Land and Wildlife of South America (1964) part of the Life Nature Library series
- Gluttons and Libertines: Human Problems of Being Natural (1968) Random House
- A Jungle in the House: Essays in Natural and Unnatural History (1970) Walker and Company[5]
References[]
- Notes
- ^ Jump up to: a b Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology (Second ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-0-306-48380-6. OCLC 470810348.
- ^ Bates 1947.
- ^ "List of ESA Fellows". Entomological Society of America. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
- ^ Reviewed at: Worth, C. B. (1971). "Marston Bates". Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 47 (1): 109–112. PMC 1749844.
- Bibliography
- Bates, Nancy Bell. East of the Andes and West of Nowhere. (1947). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Harmond, Richard. "Bates, Marston". (February 2000). American National Biography Online.
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