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Marston Bates
Alternative spellings: M. Bejts
B:1906 D: 1974 Biblio: US-amerikanischer Biologe und Zoologe; war Prof. für Zoologie an der Univ. von Michigan; Verf. von Sachbüchern Place of Activity: Michigan
Marston Bates (July 23, 1906 – April 3, 1974) was an American zoologist and environmental author. 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. From 1928-1931, he worked as an entomologist for the United Fruit Company in Central America. He received a PhD in Zoology in 1934 from Harvard University. He worked for the Rockefeller Foundation from 1935-1952, studying mosquito ecology, malaria, yellow fever, and human population. He lived for many years in Villavicencio between the mountains and the llanos in central Colombia. He served as special assistant to the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1950-1952. From 1952 until 1971 he was a professor at the University of Michigan. During that time, he also served as member of the National Research Council's expedition to the Ifalik Atoll in the South Pacific (1953), director of research at the University of Puerto Rico (1956-1957), and member of the Committee on Biological and Medical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (1952-1958). He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America in 1940 and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958. 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. (Source: DBPedia)
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