Horace Wesley Stunkard

Horace Wesley Stunkard (born August 23, 1889 in Monmouth , Iowa, † September 10, 1989 in Falmouth , Massachusetts) was an American zoologist and parasitologist who first described numerous parasitic animal species and groups and explained their life cycles.

Stunkard was in 1916 at the University of Illinois as a biologist graduated and still taught in the same year at New York University . Shortly after the United States entered World War I in 1917 , Stunkard joined the United States Army Signal Corps and was one of the first squadron of flight cadets sent to France. There he served in the French Seventh Army.

After the war he went back to New York University. In 1925 Stunkard became chairman of the Department of Biology at NYU and remained in that position until 1954. In 1939 he was president of the American Society of Parasitologists , he also became president of the New York Academy of Science in 1937, 1942 and 1943 and of the American Microscopical Society in 1936 . His publication activities included more than 300 scientific articles in which he described numerous species such as Oculotrema hippopotami and animal groups, especially flatworms , or explained the parasites of the domestic sheep and the silver fox and their relationships, which led to a sharp decline in pet mortality. In 1974 he was awarded the first Rudolf Leuckart Medal on the occasion of the 3rd International Congress for Parasitology in Munich, together with five other internationally important researchers in parasitology .

literature

• Heinz Mehlhorn : In Memoriam Horace W. Stunkard. In: Parasitology Research . Volume 76, 1990, p. 372.

Web links

• Image by Horace W. Stunkard on embryo.asu.edu