Gershom Levy
Gershom Levy (* 1937 in Tel Aviv ; † March 21, 2009 ) was an Israeli biologist and arachnologist .
Life
Living in Jerusalem since 1943, he obtained a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Biology in 1964 and a Ph.D. in 1969. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
In 1970, after starting his work on the Scorpions of Israel, Levy received a travel grant to study the Scorpion collections in the Natural History Museums of Paris and London and to visit Professor Max Vachon , a leading scorpion taxonomist, in Paris . He was particularly taken with the spider collection at the Hebrew University, to which he added many specimens from Israel and neighboring areas.
Levy published numerous publications on spiders and scorpions, after him the spider species Galeodes levyi , Phlegra levyi , Enoplognatha gershomi , Aelurillus gershomi , Agelescape levyi Guseinov as well as Gamasomorpha gershomi Saaristo and the scorpion Androctonus amoreuxi levyi .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Yael Lubin, Efrat Gavish-Regev: In Memoriam Gershom Levy (1937–2009). In: Israel Journal of Entomology Vol. 38, 2008, p. 138. ( Online ; PDF; 406 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levy, Gershom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2009 |