Joseph Conrad Chamberlin

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Joseph Conrad Chamberlin
Born(1898-12-23)December 23, 1898
Salt Lake City
DiedJuly 17, 1962(1962-07-17) (aged 63)
Hillsboro, Oregon
Alma materStanford University
Known forPseudoscorpion taxonomy
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsUnited States Department of Agriculture

Joseph Conrad Chamberlin (December 23, 1898 – July 17, 1962) was an American

U.S. Department of Agriculture
. Several species are named in his honor.

His zoological author abbreviation is J.C.Chamberlin.[1]

Early life

Chamberlin was born in

Mormon pioneer families, and he was their first child. Joseph's father died in 1911, leaving the remaining five person family near poverty. After one year of high school, he left school in 1914 to work in order to support the family.[2] In October 1918, Joseph was drafted into the United States Army, but fell ill with the Spanish flu pandemic and never served in World War I.[2]

After recovering, Chamberlin began college at the

entomologist at the time. Chamberlin graduated in 1923 with a BA degree, and in 1924 with a master's degree.[2]

Career

Chamberlin began teaching after college at San Jose State University before earning a PhD from Stanford in 1929.[2] That year, he began working for the United States Department of Agriculture. His first assignment with the department was in Idaho, where he worked until transferring to Modesto, California, in 1935. In 1936, he moved to Oregon, where he worked at a field station in Corvallis.[2] In 1939, Chamberlin transferred to the Forest Grove station where he remained until 1961. He died in Hillsboro, Oregon.[2]

Two genus-group names and eleven species have been named after him.[3] He would describe several species while working with his uncle. Joseph married Clara Hya Gladstone in 1923 and they had 5 children. They divorced and he remarried Charlotte May in 1944, 6 years after his divorce.

Eponymous taxa

Pseudoscorpions

The following pseudoscorpion taxa (species, genera, or subgenera) have been named for Chamberlin.[3]

  • Apocheiridium chamberlini Godfrey 1927
  • Fissilicreagris chamberlini (Beier 1931)
  • Afrosternophorus chamberlini (Redikorzev 1938)
  • Haploditha chamberlinorum Caporiacco 1951*
  • Kleptochthonius (Chamberlinochthonius) Vachon 1952
  • Pararoncus chamberlini (Morikawa 1957)
  • Larca chamberlini Benedict & Malcolm 1978
  • Cheiridium chamberlini Dumitresco & Orghidan 1981
  • Chthonius chamberlini (Leclerc 1983)
  • Chamberlinarius Heurtault 1990
  • Hya chamberlini Harvey 1993
  • Tyrannochthonius chamberlini Muchmore 1996
  • Anysrius chamberlini Harvey 1998
  • Rhopalochernes chamberlini Heurtault 1998
*Named for J. Chamberlin and R.V. Chamberlin

Other taxa

Besides pseudoscorpions, other taxa named for Chamberlin include:[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Parachernes J.C.Chamberlin, 1931". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Judson, Mark & Chamberlin, David C. (1998): Joseph C. Chamberlin 1898-1962. The Journal of Arachnology 26(3): 411-418.
  3. ^ a b Harvey, Mark S. & Judson, Mark (1998): A Tribute to Joseph C. Chamberlin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Preface. The Journal of Arachnology 26(3): 409-410.
  4. ^ Hans G. Hansson (1997-11-14). "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names (BEMON)". Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Göteborg University. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-04-09.

Further reading

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