Marston Bates Explained

Marston Bates
Birth Date:July 23, 1906
Birth Place:Michigan
Nationality:American
Field:Zoology
Epidemiology
Work Institutions:University of Michigan
Alma Mater:University of Florida
Harvard University
Known For:Mosquitoes
Yellow fever

Marston Bates (July 23, 1906 – April 3, 1974) was an American zoologist and environmental author. Bates' studies on mosquitoes contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America.

Biography

Born in Michigan, Bates received a BS in biology from the University of Florida in 1927. From 1928 to 1931, he worked as an entomologist for the United Fruit Company in Central America.[1] He received a PhD in zoology in 1934 from Harvard University.[2] He worked for the Rockefeller Foundation from 1935 to 1952, studying mosquito ecology, malaria, yellow fever, and human population.[1] [3] He lived for many years in Villavicencio between the mountains and the llanos in central Colombia.[4] He served as special assistant to the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1950–1952.[1] From 1952 until 1971 he was a professor at the University of Michigan.[2] During that time, he also served as member of the National Research Council's expedition to the Ifalik Atoll in the South Pacific (1953), director of research at the University of Puerto Rico (1956-1957), and member of the Committee on Biological and Medical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (1952-1958).[1] He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America in 1940[5] and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.[6] He was the author of many popular science books. He was married to Nancy Bell Fairchild, daughter of the botanist David Fairchild and granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell.

In 1960, he published the ecological science book The Forest and the Sea,[7] an introduction to how ecosystems work.He compares a rain forest and a tropical sea, their similarities and differences, and through it demonstrates how to understand biological systems.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: BHL: Marston Bates Papers . 2022-11-14 . quod.lib.umich.edu.
  2. Book: Bates, Marston (1906-1974), naturalist and educator . 2022-11-14 . American National Biography . 2000 . 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1302195 . 978-0-19-860669-7 . en. Harmond . Richard .
  3. Web site: Raby . Megan . 2019 . "From Mosquitoes to People": Marston Bates and the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division . 2022-11-14 . rockarch.issuelab.org.
  4. Bates 1947.
  5. Web site: List of ESA Fellows. Entomological Society of America. September 7, 2019.
  6. Web site: Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. May 21, 2011.
  7. 10.2307/4439481. 4439481 . Reviewed work: The Forest and the Sea by Marston Bates . The American Biology Teacher . 1961 . 23 . 1 . 49 .
  8. 10.1086/397396. Review of The Natural History of Mosquitoes by Marston Bates . 1950 . Matheson . Robert . Robert Matheson (entomologist) . The Quarterly Review of Biology . 25 . 70–71 .
  9. Yale J. Biol. Med.. May 1950. 22. 5. Review of The Nature of Natural History by Marston Bates. 464–465 . 2598956 .
  10. Lee, Douglas H. K.. 10.1086/399295. Review of Where Winter Never Comes. A Study of Man and Nature in the Tropics by Marston Bates . The Quarterly Review of Biology . 1952 . 27 . 4 . 441 .
  11. 10.1017/S0030605300005597. joint review of The Land and Wildlife of South America by Marston Bates, and Tropical Asia by S. Dillon Ripley. Time-Life International . 1966 . Boyle . C. L. . Oryx . 8 . 6 . 382–383 . 86302767 . free . p. 383
  12. Reviewed at: 1749844. 47. 1. 109–112. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Marston Bates. 1971. Worth, C. B..

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