Charles Duncan Michener
Charles Duncan Michener | |
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Born | |
Died | November 1, 2015 | (aged 97)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Entomology, melittology |
Institutions | University of Kansas |
Thesis | Comparative External Morphology, Phylogeny, and a Classification of the Bees (1942) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Oliver Essig |
Doctoral students | Edward M. Barrows, Paul R. Ehrlich |
Charles Duncan Michener (September 22, 1918 – November 1, 2015) was an American
Biography
Much of his career was devoted to the systematics and natural history of bees. His first peer-reviewed publication was in 1934, at the age of 16. He received his BS in 1939 and his PhD in entomology in 1941, from the University of California, Berkeley. He remained in California until 1942, when he became an assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.[3]
In 1944 he published a classification system for bees that was soon adopted worldwide, and was in use until 1993 and 1995, when he co-authored new classifications. From 1943 to 1946, Michener also served as a first lieutenant and captain in the
Michener joined the faculty of the
Michener's work on social evolution in the Halictidae in the 1960s helped set the stage for the sociobiology revolution of the 1970s, with E. O. Wilson relying to a great degree on Michener's concepts regarding the paths from solitary to highly social life.
Along with his research activities and teaching, Michener was the editor of the academic journals
Michener's long career also included the training of more than 80 master's and doctoral students, among them Jim Baker, Edward M. Barrows, Suzanne W. T. Batra, Michael D. Breed, Denis Brothers, Sydney Cameron, Jim Cane, Paul R. Ehrlich, George Eickwort, Les Greenberg, William Gutierrez, Alexander Hawkins, Dwight Kamm, Robert Minckley, William Ramirez, Radclyffe Roberts, Brian H. Smith, Thomas Snyder, William Wcislo, John Wenzel, Alvaro Wille, and Douglas Yanega.
References
- ^ "Charles Michener". University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ^ Alan Weisman (2013). Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?.
- S2CID 87560343.
- ^ Charles Duncan Michener Book
Selected bibliography
- Sokal, Michener (1958). "A statistical method for evaluating systematic relationships". University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 38: 1409–1438.
- Michener, C. D. (1974). The Social Behavior of the Bees. Harvard University Press. 404 pp.
- Michener, C. D. (2000). The Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press. 913 pp.