Nathan Cobb
Nathan Augustus Cobb (born June 30, 1859 in Spencer , Massachusetts , † June 4, 1932 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American zoologist , plant pathologist and nematologist.
Life
Cobb grew up in simple rural circumstances. He passed a teacher entrance exam and studied chemistry at the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science . He was then until 1887 science lecturer at Williston Seminary in Easthampton .
Cobb went to Ernst Haeckel at the University of Jena in 1887 and received his doctorate there in 1888 with a thesis on nematodes of the beluga whale . He then went on a trip to Australia , but was initially unable to find work in the scientific community there and had to keep afloat with odd jobs. Finally, in 1890, he accepted a position as a plant pathologist in the New South Wales Department of Agriculture .
In 1905 Cobb moved to the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association in Honolulu as a plant pathologist and two years later to the headquarters of the US Department of Agriculture in Washington , where he founded the nematodology laboratory that still exists today. Even after his retirement in 1924, he continued his work.
Cobb is considered to be one of the founders of nematology who has described more than 1,000 species. He was an extremely productive and versatile researcher in the field of plant diseases and marine nematodes.
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| SURNAME | Cobb, Nathan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cobb, Nathan Augustus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American zoologist, plant pathologist, and nematologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spencer , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1932 |
| Place of death | Baltimore , Maryland |