Robert A. Cooley
Robert Allen Cooley (born June 27, 1873 in Deerfield , Massachusetts ; died November 16, 1968 in Hamilton , Montana ) was an American entomologist , arachnologist, and parasitologist .
Youth and Studies
Robert Cooley grew up in Deerfield, Massachusetts and attended public schools. He then studied at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1895. He then worked as a postgraduate at his faculty, researched two genera of coccidia , and published a monograph on it in 1899.
Research and Teaching
In 1899, Cooley went to Montana State College in Bozeman as professor and head of the faculty of zoology and entomology . Shortly after his arrival in Montana, Cooley began to deal intensively with Rocky Mountain spotted fever and the only known vector at the time , the black tick Dermacentor andersoni . The disease claimed numerous lives in Montana, and the biology of its vectors has remained largely unexplored. Other areas of research included fruit pests and grasshoppers , which caused considerable damage to the agriculture of the State of Montana. From 1903, Cooley held the office of state entomologist of Montana , created on his initiative, in addition to his university activities.
Cooley was instrumental in researching the life cycle of Dermacentor andersoni and other vectors of zoonoses . His work led to the establishment of a research laboratory that later became the Rocky Mountain Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service . Cooley left Bozeman in 1931 to join the Rocky Mountain Laboratory as a senior entomologist.
There he significantly expanded his research on ticks . At first he devoted himself to attempts to control ticks with the help of parasites, namely the wasp Ixodiphagus hookeri . He later delved into the taxonomy of New World ticks and wrote several revisions to facilitate the identification of ticks in field research. When Cooley retired in 1946, the Rocky Mountain Laboratory was a major research facility. As part of his job, he built an extensive collection of ticks at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory. The United States National Tick Collection later emerged from this collection as the largest collection of ticks in the world today.
Awards and dedication names (selection)
Robert Cooley received an honorary doctorate from Montana State University in 1936 for his achievements in research and teaching and for his work for the benefit of the people of the state of Montana. Several animal species were named after Cooley, mainly parasites :
- Argas cooleyi Bedford , 1929 , a type of tick
- Ixodes cooleyi Aragão & Fonseca , 1951 , a type of tick
- Haemaphysalis cooleyi MacIvor , 1941 , a type of leather tick
- Acalypta cooleyi Drake , 1917 , a type of net bug
- Cooleyaspis ( Newstead , 1920) , a genus of coccidia
Publications (selection)
- Robert A. Cooley: The coccid genera Chionaspis and Hemichionaspis . Special bulletin. Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass. 1899, digitized .
- Robert A. Cooley and Glen M. Kohls: The Argasidae of North America, Central America and Cuba . The American midland naturalist. Monograph no. 1. The University Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 1944, digitized .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Glen M. Kohls: Robert Allen Cooley. 1873-1968 . In: Journal of Economic Entomology 1969, Volume 62, No. 4, p. 972, doi : 10.1093 / jee / 62.4.972 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooley, Robert A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cooley, Robert Allen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American entomologist and parasitologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deerfield , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1968 |
| Place of death | Hamilton , Montana |