Elwood Curtin Zimmerman

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Elwood Curtin Zimmerman (born December 8, 1912 in Spokane , Washington , † June 18, 2004 in Tura Beach , New South Wales ) was an American entomologist . His main field of research was the insect fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, Australia as well as Fiji and Samoa .

biography

In 1934 Zimmerman took part in an expedition to French Polynesia . After studying biology, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1936 . Between 1936 and 1937 and between 1940 and 1941 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . Between 1936 and 1945 he was an entomologist at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu , for which he undertook collective expeditions to the Fiji Islands and Samoa in 1938 and 1940. From 1946 to 1950 he was an entomologist curator at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. In 1948 the first five volumes of Insects of Hawaii appeared , which is one of the most extensive standard works on the Hawaiian insect fauna. He won the Best Hawaiian Writer of the Year award for the work.

From 1951 to 1961 he was a research fellow at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. In 1956 he received his Ph. D. From the University of London . Between 1957 and 1958 he published volumes six to eight of Incects of Hawaii . From 1961 to 1973 he worked again as an entomologist for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. In 1973 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Entomology at CSIRO in Australia . In 1980 he received his Doctor of Science degree from the University of London. In 1983 he was awarded the Karl Jordan Medal . Between 1991 and 1994 his six-volume work Australian Weevils was published , in which he described several species of Australian beetles for the first time that were previously unknown to science.

Zimmerman wrote over 200 scientific articles, including the first descriptions of genera such as Apagobelus , Dryotribodes , Arhinobelus, and Carodes .

Dedication names

Species such as Aeletes zimmermani , Zorotypus zimmermani , Apsilochorema zimmermani and Cerapachys zimmermani are named after Zimmerman .

literature

  • Murray S. Upton & Rolf Oberprieler: Elwood Curtin Zimmerman, World Authority on Weevils , XII-08-1912 to VI-18-2004, Curculio, 49: pp. 20-22.

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personal data
SURNAME Zimmerman, Elwood Curtin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Spokane
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2004
Place of death Tura Beach , New South Wales