Justin O. Schmidt

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Justin Orvel Schmidt (* 1947 ) is an American entomologist at Southwestern Biological Institute of the University of Arizona .

Justin Schmidt grew up in the north-east of the USA in the Appalachian region . He studied at Pennsylvania State University where he received his bachelor's degree and then studied for a master's degree at the University of British Columbia . He then moved to the University of Georgia where he received his Ph.D. received. He did a postdoc at the University of New Brunswick . He then went to the US Department of Agriculture's Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Arizona before moving to the Southwestern Biological Institute at the University of Arizona.

Schmidt has about 200 scientific publications. The Schmidt Sting Pain Index is best known for which he received the Ig Nobel Prize in 2015 .

Justin O. Schmidt is married and has two children.

Works

  • Justin O. Schmidt Murray S. Blum William L. Overal, Hemolytic activities of stinging insect venoms , 1983
  • Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild , Johns Hopkins University Press 2016, ISBN 9781421419282

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Guardian, Experience: I have been stung by 150 species of insect , May 11, 2018
  2. ^ A b c Business Radio, Justin Schmidt Entomologist; Author of "Sting of the Wild" , accessed February 22, 2019
  3. ^ University of Georgia, Schmidt, PhD (Entomology) '77, wins 2015 Ig Nobel Prize , accessed February 22, 2019
  4. ^ A b New York Times, Feature - The Connoisseur of Pain , August 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Justin O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Justin Orvel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947