S. F. Light
S. F. Light | |
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PhD) | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology, entomology |
Institutions | |
Thesis | On Hoplonympha natator, gen. nov., sp. nov. On Metadevescovina debilis, gen. nov., sp. nov. (1926) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Atwood Kofoid |
Notable students | Donald Putnam Abbott, Theodore Holmes Bullock, Olga Hartman, Joel Hedgpeth, Mildred Stratton Wilson |
Sol Felty Light (May 5, 1886 – June 21, 1947) was an American zoologist, entomologist, and professor at the
Biography
Light was born in
Light became a full professor at the University of the Philippines, and finally chairman of the department until 1922. He took a leave of absence and obtained a second masters at
In the 1930s, Light began teaching marine zoology and holding five-week summer courses and field trips to Moss Beach. From these classes, he developed a syllabus in 1937 which evolved into an invertebrate zoology textbook and field guide, later publishing it in book form as the Laboratory and Field Text in Invertebrate Zoology (1941).[16] The book is recognized as "the first reasonably comprehensive treatment of marine invertebrates" in the north central California coastal region.[17]
On June 21, 1947, Light drowned as he was swimming in Clear Lake, while fishing on summer vacation.[16] Until his death, Light served as professor of zoology at Berkeley for 22 years.[16]
Personal life
Light married Mary Nexbitt Holdcroft on January 1, 1925.[4] He was said to have had a conservative demeanor, always appearing in full business suits while on field trips at the beach, only changing his shoes for rubber boots. Light disliked using "Sol Felty" as part of his full name;[2] Light's students knew him as "Dr. Light", while his own wife referred to him only as "S. F. Light" after he died. Former student Joel Hedgpeth remembers that Light "always signed himself S. F. Light, or S. F. L. He obviously didn't care much for what his parents had done for him...So sometimes, we use those terms, being overfamiliar in our behind-his-back sort of references."[18] Light was quietly active[γ] in the Christian community and belonged to the First Congregational Church of Berkeley,[4] where he participated in the role of a vestryman. The church was popular with other members of the zoological community,[19] with Light's doctoral advisor Charles Atwood Kofoid and colleague Richard M. Eakin notable members.[δ]
Legacy
In the 1940s, Light was profiled in
A notable group of students who studied under Light at Berkeley became leading authorities in their respective fields. These students include
Light also sat on the
The zoological literature cites Light's research as an example of a historical body of work that contributed to an attempt to find answers to open problems in the study of termites. In 2010, Hanus et al. referred to Light's work on identifying insect pheromones in the reproductive inhibition of termites[η] as part of a larger body of "pioneering studies",[29] of which research continues to this day. A few months after Hanus et al. published their findings, Matsuura et al. summarized the state of modern research in this area of inquiry, pointing to Light's research: "In termites, which evolved eusociality independently of Hymenoptera, the existence of queen pheromones inhibiting the differentiation of supplementary queens has been suggested for many decades, but to date no active compounds have been identified."[30]
Light's Manual
Before Light's death, he acknowledged that the Laboratory and Field Text in Invertebrate Zoology (1941) was both incomplete and in need of corrections. When Light died, the first edition of the book was unavailable to students, as it was out of print. Editing and revisions were needed before it could be republished.
Collections
Selected publications
- Books
- Termites and Termite Control (1934). OCLC 971458799.
- Laboratory and Field Text in Invertebrate Zoology (1941). OCLC 7708655.
- Articles
- "Termites of Western Mexico" (1933). OCLC 700896660.
- "Termites of Southeastern Polynesia" (1936). OCLC 1244125650
- "Experimental studies on ectohormonal control of the development of supplementary reproductives in the termite genus Zootermopsis (formerly Termopsis)" (1944). OCLC 3006143.
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ The area was later designated as a biosphere reserve in 1977.[8]
- ^ Light, S. F. (January 1921). "Further Notes on Philippine Scyphomedusan Jellyfishes". The Philippine Journal of Science. 18 (1): 25-48.
- ^ Hedgpeth 1952: "...I do remember [Light's] startled glance when, as a vestryman, he ushered me to a seat in the church at Berkeley of which, following their chairman's lead, a number of zoologists were staunch members. There was indeed something more than words can express to that brief encounter on a Sunday morning—perhaps because it was never alluded to afterwards—the feeling that perhaps I had caught my professor out at something he was not sure his students should know about him, as well as amazement that I should tum up. He almost forgot to give me a program."[19]
- ^ See the "Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) Biography" at the UCSD Library and the press release "Richard M. Eakin, a zoology professor who enthralled UC Berkeley students with costumed lectures, is dead at 89" from the University of California at Berkeley Public Information Office.
- ^ Wu 1931: "The new species is named in dedicating [sic] to Prof. S. F. Light, Prof. in Zoology, University of California, U. S. A., to whom I have greatly appreciated for his constant help and encouragement in my zoological studies during the three years association with him in the University of Amoy."[21]
- ^ Jones 1961: "Dr. Ralph I. Smith and Mrs. Frances Weesner Lechleitner, who, with Dr. Hand, afforded me an indirect exposure to the research and teaching methods of the late Professor S. F. Light, Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, in whose honor I am pleased to name this new cephalocarid."[22]
- ^ "Review: Experimental Studies on Ectohormonal Control of the Development of Supplementary Reproductives in the Termite Genus Zootermopsis (Formerly Termopsis)". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 20 (1): 93. March 1945.
- OCLC 609159301.
- ^ In the 1970s, collections from Stanford University and the Hopkins Marine Station were acquired by the California Academy of Sciences. "The collectors comprise a kind of 'who's who' among pioneer biologists of the coast, including David Starr Jordan, W.D. De Laubenfels [sic], William Healey Dall, Alexander Agassiz, Libbie Hyman, S.F. Light, and many others, as well as specimens..collected by E. F. Ricketts...and John Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez."[35]
References
- OCLC 3424318.
- ^ OCLC 595601579.
- ^ .
- ^ a b c d e f g Essig, E. O. (April 1948). "Sol Felty Light 1886-1947" Archived November 23, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 24 (2): 49-53. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
- ^ OCLC 503933544.
- ^ "University and Educational News". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 35 (903): 618. April 19, 1912.
- ^ Roxas, Hilario A. (1930). "The Puerto Galera Marine Biological Laboratory of the University of the Philippines". University of the Philippines. pp. 1-32.
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO). Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- ^ Light, S. F. (July 27, 1923). "Amphioxus Fisheries near the University of Amoy, China". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 58 (1491): 57-60.
- OCLC 1148370849.
- ^ Light, S. F. (April 1929). "Termites and Termite Damage". University of California. College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station. Berkeley, California. Circular 314.
- ^ Light, S. F.; Randall, Merle; White, Frank G. (August 1930). "Termites and Termite Damage". University of California. College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station. Berkeley, California. Circular 318.
- ^ Vestal, Arthur G. (August 9, 1929). "The Second Berkeley Meeting of the Pacific Division". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 70 (1806): 130.
- OCLC 761988303.
- ^ a b Bullock, Theodore H.; Eakin, Richard M.; Miller, Alden H. (1947). Sol Felty Light, Zoölogy: Berkeley (1886-1947) Archived November 9, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. University of California: In Memoriam, 1947. UC History Digital Archives. Retrieved November 9, 2023.
- ^ OCLC 1163878190.
- ^ "Newsletter". Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists/ Jan/Feb/March/April 2009 Vol. 27, No. 5. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ a b Hedgpeth, Joel W. (1992). "Marine Biologist and Environmentalist: Pycnogonids, Progress, and Preserving Bays, Salmon, and Other Living Things" Archived November 23, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1992. Source of Community Leaders Series. The Bancroft Library. University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley.
- ^ OCLC 1147728037.
- ^ Cattell, Jaques (August 11, 1944). "American Men of Science: Scientific Men Receiving Stars in the Seventh Edition" Archived November 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 100 (2589): 126-129.
- ^ Wu H-W. (1931). "Notes on the fishes from the Coast of Foochow region and Ming River". Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China. Zoological Series 7: 1–64.
- ^ a b Jones, M. L. (1961). "Lightiella serendipita gen. nov., sp. nov., a cephalocarid from San Francisco Bay, California" Archived November 25, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Crustaceana. 3 (1): 31-46.
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- Light, S. F.; Hartman, Olga. (1937). "A review of the genera Clausidium Kossman and Hemicyclops Boeck (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), with the description of a new species from the Northeast Pacific". University of California Publications in Zoology. 41 (14): 173-188. OCLC 2990020.
- Light, S. F.; Hartman, Olga. (1937). "A review of the genera Clausidium Kossman and Hemicyclops Boeck (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), with the description of a new species from the Northeast Pacific". University of California Publications in Zoology. 41 (14): 173-188.
- ISSN 0278-0372.
- ^ Hadfield, Michael G. (1998). "Paul Louis Illg". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 18 (4): 839-841.
- Illg, Paul Louis (March 23, 1978). "Oral History Interview with Paul Louis Illg, Former Curator of Invertebrate Biology National Museum of Natural History, 1947-1952 Archived November 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine". Interviewed by Pamela Henson. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Oral History Program. Record Unit 9609.
- OCLC 243695576.
- ISSN 0042-3211.
- ^ Reeves, William C. (1990-91). "Arbovirologist and Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health" Archived November 23, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. An oral history conducted in 1990 and 1991 by Sally Smith Hugh. The University History Series. University Archives. The Bancroft Library. University of California at Berkeley.
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 277 (1684): 995–1002.
- ^ Matsuura, Kenji; Himuro, Chihiro; Yokoi, Tomoyuki; Keller, Laurent (July 6, 2010). "Identification of a pheromone regulating caste differentiation in termites". PNAS. 107 (209): 12963-12968.
- ^ Le Cren, E. D. (May 1955). "Shore Invertebrates". Journal of Animal Ecology. British Ecological Society. 24 (1): 204.
- OCLC 1097984.
- OCLC 1495405.
- ^ "Blattodea" Archived November 25, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
- ^ Williams, Gary C. (May 11, 2007). "History of Invertebrate Zoology at the California Academy of Sciences" Archived November 4, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. 58 (12): 197-239.
- ^ Ricca PMC, Cheung HCA (2021). "Sighting of the rare jellyfish Anomalorhiza shawi Light, 1921 in a marine protected area of Hong Kong" Archived November 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Check List. 17 (2): 701-707.
- Chuan et al. (2020). "First record of jellyfish Anomalorhiza shawi Light, 1921 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) and its associated organisms in Sabah, Malaysia" Archived November 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 35.