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Post by nomad on May 27, 2018 7:01:10 GMT
What's your choice from your own country? Since we all live somewhere, a thread we can all join in.
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steve
Junior Aurelian
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Country: Australia
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Post by steve on May 28, 2018 5:30:01 GMT
For me, Australian entomologists G.A.Waterhouse. Dr I.F.B Common and E.D ( Ted) Edwards.
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Post by africaone on May 28, 2018 6:10:29 GMT
In Belgium the most influential these last decades is Jacques Hecq. Otherwise we have a long entomological history with Lameere (Prionid), Fontaine (probably the biggest collector we had, his collection being the best reference for our fauna and last specimens of species that disappear in the country), Berger (known for Colias and "Papillons du Zaire"), Lambilllon (who gave his name to Lambillionea revue) + many other impressive collector
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Post by wollastoni on May 28, 2018 7:31:55 GMT
Good topic. For France : - for academic work, I would say Charles Oberthur for his publications both on tropical and French insects. - for field work, I would say Eugène Le Moult for its expeditions in French Guyana. There would be many others but these are my heroes.
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Post by africaone on May 28, 2018 13:39:21 GMT
Good topic. For France : - for academic work, I would say Charles Oberthur for his publications both on tropical and French insects. - for field work, I would say Eugène Le Moult for its expeditions in French Guyana. There would be many others but these are my heroes. Oberthur was more than his publications. The collection he made is probably one of the biggest ever done in France and in the world. Don't forget Dejean, Thomson (despite being American), JH Fabre (who had an impact largely more than entomology), and so many more Le Moult was the first big dealer in France, he touched the worlwide fauna and published his own revue. I suppose Michel (Mygos) can provide many more info about French entomology
England and Germany provided probably the biggest lots of Famous entomologist.
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Post by nomad on May 28, 2018 14:43:09 GMT
I suppose Michel (Mygos) can provide many more info about French entomology I wonder who Michel will choose.
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Post by nomad on May 28, 2018 16:05:56 GMT
My favourites are well known, I guess the most influential UK worldwide entomologist was Walter Rothschild, Alfred Stewart Meek, the Pratt father and sons, as a butterfly explorers and my favourite British worker was James Charles Dale, although born into wealth, he devoted his entire life to the study of all insects orders. My favourite illustrator was his friend and contemporary, John Curtis, another excellent field worker. Then there is my favourite women, Margaret Fountaine and Evelyn Cheesman. There are just so many to choose from.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 28, 2018 16:07:53 GMT
Here in Thailand one of the influential entomologists of the last 40 years was Jarujin Nabhitabhata, who sadly lost his life in 2008 due to a reaction to a local anaesthetic. I first met him in 1980, and the last time I saw him was when I took a box of spare specimens to give him at the National Museum in Pathum Thani, just north of Bangkok, in 2006. www.researchgate.net/publication/265058993_Obituary-_Jarujin_Nabhitabhata_1950-2008Adam.
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Post by africaone on May 28, 2018 20:39:31 GMT
Here in Thailand one of the influential entomologists of the last 40 years was Jarujin Nabhitabhata, who sadly lost his life in 2008 due to a reaction to a local anaesthetic. I first met him in 1980, and the last time I saw him was when I took a box of spare specimens to give him at the National Museum in Pathum Thani, just north of Bangkok, in 2006. www.researchgate.net/publication/265058993_Obituary-_Jarujin_Nabhitabhata_1950-2008Adam. and Brother Pinratana seemed also quite influencal for Thailand ?
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 29, 2018 8:45:41 GMT
and Brother Pinratana seemed also quite influencal for Thailand ? Indeed Brother Amnuay Pinratana was a very important amateur entomologist, whereas Dr. Jarujin was a professional entomologist and zoologist. I thought it worth mentioning Jarujin because almost everyone here will not have heard of him. In Thailand people generally use first names - for instance you cannot look for a phone number using only a family name in the phone book, people are listed in first name order. Of course, for scientific citation family names should be used. Bro. Amnuay, who was a Catholic lay priest and headmaster of St. Gabriel's College, Bangkok, was not only a Lepidopterist but collaborated with foreign experts to produce books on Lucanidae, Cicindelidae, Odonata and Cicadas of Thailand. Adam.
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Post by satyrinae on May 29, 2018 10:00:44 GMT
My dad. He used and still does breed Bombyx mori for fun. I took his hobby and exaggerated just a little bit on it :-)
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 29, 2018 11:17:07 GMT
I guess there aren't many entomologists as well known as you in Malta, Jonathan.
Adam.
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Post by hewi on May 29, 2018 13:00:31 GMT
Germany (in the past):
Jacob Hübner, Adalbert Seitz, Otto Staudinger, Hans Ferdinand Stichel, Hans Fruhstorfer, Felix Bryk, Wilhelm Niepelt, Otto Bang-Haas, Anton Hermann Fassl etc. .....
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Post by exoticimports on May 30, 2018 2:41:50 GMT
Influential not being equivalent to great I’m surprised nobody mentioned Bernie.
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Post by mygos on May 31, 2018 19:13:33 GMT
I suppose Michel (Mygos) can provide many more info about French entomology I wonder who Michel will choose. Difficult to answer ! As Olivier, I would say Charles Oberthur and Eugène Le Moult then Jean-Henri Fabre, Pierre-André Latreille, Paul Mabille, Henri Stempffer, Hyppolite Lucas, Jean-Baptiste Boisduval ... and the latest ones as Claude Lemaire, Jacques Plantrou, Jean-Louis Amiet, Claude Herbulot, Bernard Turlin ... A+, Michel
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