- E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist (Myrmecology, a branch of entomology), researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), and naturalist (conservationism). Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his scientific humanist ideas concerned with religious, moral, and ethical matters. - May Berenbaum
May Berenbaum graduated summa cum laude, with a B.S. degree and honors in biology, from Yale University in 1975; she attended graduate school at Cornell University and received a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology in 1980. Since 1980, she has been a member of the faculty of the department of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has served as head of the department since 1992. - Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed, M.D., (September 13 1851 - November 23 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which confirmed the theory (first set forth in 1881 by Cuban doctor/scientist Carlos Finlay) that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, rather than by direct contact. This insight opened entire new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904-14) by the United States. - Thomas Say
Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 - October 10, 1834) was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist and carcinologist. He was a taxonomist and is often considered to be the founder of descriptive entomology in the United States and one of the founding fathers of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). ESA maintains several series of publications and awards that are named after Say. Thomas Say was born in Philadelphia into a prominent Quaker family. - Jean Henri Fabre
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. Fabre was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras. In 1852, he taught at the lycée in Avignon. Fabre went on to accomplish many scholarly achievements. - Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 - August 25, 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. - Willi Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig was a German biologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, also known as "cladistics". With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans (ordinary flies and mosquitoes). - Maria Sibylla Merian
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian (born April 2, 1647 in Frankfurt - died January 13, 1717 in Amsterdam) was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them. Her detailed observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly make her a significant, albeit not well known, contributor to entomology. - John Scott
John Scott (September 21 1823 - August 30 1888) was an English entomologist. He was born, and died, in Morpeth. His collection of specimens is held at the Natural History Museum, London. - Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose English stylist for the novels he composed in the United States. He is also noted for having made significant contributions to lepidoptery and creating a number of chess problems. Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, … - William Kirby
William Kirby (September 19, 1759 - July 4, 1850) was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is considered the "father of entomology." - John Obadiah Westwood
John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 - 2 January 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests. He became a curator and later professor at Oxford University, having been nominated by this friend and patron the Reverend Frederick William Hope, whose donation was the basis of the Hope Collection at Oxford. - Henry Walter Bates
Henry Walter Bates FRS, FLS, FGS (February 8, 1825 - February 16, 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck. When Bates arrived home seven years later (in 1859) he had sent back over 14,000 specimens (mostly insects) of which 8,000 were new to science. Bates was born in Leicester and, like Wallace, … - William Morton Wheeler
William Morton Wheeler, Ph. D. (March 19, 1865 - April 19 1937) was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard Professor. Wheeler was trained as an insect embryologist, having studied under Baur, Dohrn and Whitman, but became the leading authority on behaviour of social insects, achieving particular renown for his studies of social behaviour of ants. - Paul Reiter
Paul Reiter is a professor of medical entomology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. He is a member of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Vector Biology and Control. He was an employee of the Center for Disease Control (Dengue Branch) for 22 years. - David Grimaldi
David Grimaldi (entomologist) (born September 22, 1957) is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect systematics and paleontology, and evolutionary biology. - Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Ukrainian - Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; sometimes anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky; January 25, 1900 - December 18, 1975) was a noted geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Dobzhansky was born in Ukraine (then part of Imperial Russia) and emigrated to the United States in 1927. - Charles Valentine Riley
Charles Valentine Riley (September 19, 1843, London - September 14, 1895) was an entomologist and artist. He was born in London on September 19, 1843 and moved to the United States at the age of 17. At the age of 21, Riley began working for the "Prairie Farmer", a leading agricultural journal as reporter, artist, and editor of the entomological department. In 1868, he was appointed to the office of entomologist of the State of Missouri. - Andrew Spielman
Andrew Spielman, Sc.D. was a prominent American public health entomologist and Professor of Tropical Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Spielman was a world-renowned expert in the vector-borne illnesses malaria, Lyme disease, babesiosis and in the ways in which they are transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks. He was a major figure in the modern history of public health entomology. - Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today. Latreille was born into a humble family of Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, and in 1778 entered the college Lemoine in Paris. He was ordained a priest in 1786 and then went back to Brive, where he spent all of his free time studying insects. In 1788 he returned to Paris and became active in the scientific community there, … - Horace Donisthorpe
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus "Lasius" after him as "Donisthorpea", and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants. He is often considered to be the greatest figure in British myrmecology. - Jan Swammerdam
Jan Swammerdam was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—are different forms of the same animal. As part of his anatomical research, he carried out experiments on muscle contraction. In 1668, he was the first to observe and describe red blood cells. He was one of the first people to use the microscope in dissections, … - Palisot de Beauvois
Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois 27 July 1752 Arras - 21 January 1820 Paris, was a French naturalist. Palisot collected insects in Oware, Benin, Saint Domingue, and the United States, during the period 1786 – 1797. Trained as a botanist, Palisot published a significant entomological paper entitled, "Insectes Recueillis en Afrique et en Amerique". - Asa Fitch
Dr. Asa Fitch was born February 24, 1809. His early studies were of both natural history and medicine, which he studied at the newly formed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1827. However, in 1838 he decided to start studying agriculture and entomology. In 1838 he began to collect and study insects for New York state. In 1854 he became the first professional Entomologist of New York State Agricultural Society (commissioned by the State of New York). - J. Gordon Edwards
J. Gordon Edwards (1919-2004) was an entomologist mountain climber, an author, and park ranger. Edwards was professor, and later emeritus professor of Biology, San Jose State University. He died on July 19 of a heart attack while hiking up Divide Mountain with his wife, Alice. He was 84. - John Henry Comstock
John Henry Comstock (1849-1931) was an eminent researcher in entomology and a leading educator. His work provided the basis for classification of butterflies, moths, and scale insects. - Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler is a German myrmecologist who is a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on "The Ants" (1991) with Edward O. Wilson. In 1990, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. He also collaborated with Wilson to write "Journey to the Ants" (1994). - Michael Majerus
Dr. Michael E. N. Majerus (born 1954) is a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, and the author of several books. The son of Fernand and Muriel Majerus, he took an early interest in lepidoptera and ecological genetics following the work of E.B. Ford, whose book "Moths" (in the New Naturalist series) he bought at age ten. Later he moved into studying ladybirds. He is married to Christina. His website defines his "keyword" subject areas as: Evolutionary genetics, … - Dru Drury
Dru Drury (February 4, 1725 - January 15, 1804) was a British entomologist, one of the foremost of his time. He was born in Wood Lane, London. His father was a silversmith, and Dru took over the business in 1748. He retired as a silversmith in 1789 to devote his time entirely to entomology. Drury had a keen interest in entomology already, and was the president of the Society of Entomologists of London from 1780 to 1782. He died in Turnham Green and was buried at St. - Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is currently the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of Kansas. He is a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). He is also well known as a researcher and author on the subject of human overpopulation notably for his 1968 book "The Population Bomb". - Michael S. Engel
Michael S. Engel (born 24 September 1971 in Creve Coeur, Missouri) is a paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 200 papers in scientific journals. He gained his training at the University of Kansas where he received a B.S. in Cellular Biology and a B.A. in Chemistry in 1993, and at Cornell University where in 1998 he obtained his Ph.D. in Entomology. - Francis Walker
Francis Walker (July 31, 1809 - October 5, 1874) was an English entomologist. Walker was employed by the British Museum between 1844 and 1873. He described a great number of new insects, but unfortunately he was, sometimes, a careless taxonomist, often describing the same species more than once under different specific names. In this respect, however, he was no worse than many continental entomologists. He was born in Southgate, England on 1 July 1809 and died at Wanstead, … - Georges Brossard
Georges Brossard, born in 1940 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada, is a famed entomologist and founder of the Montreal Insectarium (Insectarium de Montréal). - John Curtis
John Curtis (1791-1862) was an English entomologist and illustrator. He was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles. At the age of 16 he became an apprentice at a local lawyer's office but devoted his spare time to studying and drawing insects and, with insect collecting becoming a growing craze, he found he could make a living selling the specimens he found. - Justin O. Schmidt
Justin O. Schmidt is an American entomologist, co-author of "Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators" and creator of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. - Charles de Geer
Baron Charles de Geer (the family is usually known as De Geer with a capitalized "De"; Finspång in Risinge 30 January 1720 - Stockholm 7 March 1778) was a Swedish industrialist and entomologist. - Jules Émile Planchon
Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist. After receiving his Doctorate of Sciences degree at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent. In 1853 he became head of Department of Botanical Sciences at the Montpellier University, where he remained for the remainder of his career. - William Swainson
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (October 8, 1789 - December 6, 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist. Swainson was born in Dover Place, St. Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of John Timothy Swainson, an original fellow of the Linnean Society. He was cousin of the amateur botanist Isaac Swainson. His father's family originated in Lancashire, and both grandfather and father held high posts in Her Majesty's Customs, … - Agostino Bassi
Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi, (born September 25, 1773, near Lodi, Lombardy; died February 8, 1856, in Lodi) was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microrganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, … - Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger was a German author of novels and accounts of his war experiences. Many regard him as one of Germany's greatest modern writers and a hero of the conservative revolutionary movement following World War I. Others dismiss him as a militarist and reactionary.
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