Warwick Estevam Kerr

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Warwick Estevam Kerr (9 September 1922 – 15 September 2018) was a Brazilian

Apis mellifera scutellata) accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 in Rio Claro, São Paulo in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa
.

Biography

Kerr was born in 1922 in

Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz of the University of São Paulo, at Piracicaba
, São Paulo, where he graduated as agricultural engineer.

From March 1975 to April 1979, Kerr moved to

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, in Uberlândia, state of Minas Gerais
, in February 1988, as a professor of genetics.

Scientific contributions

His scientific life began in Piracicaba, where he received his doctorate (D.Sc.) and later was an assistant professor. In 1951, he did postdoctoral studies as a visiting professor at the

University of California at Davis and, in 1952, at Columbia University, where he studied with the famous geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky
.

In 1958, he was invited by Professor Dias da Silveira to assist in organizing the Department of

São Paulo State Research Foundation
(FAPESP).

In December 1964, he accepted the position of Full Professor of Genetics at the

mathematical biology and biostatistics; and was a pioneer in the use of computers in biology and medicine, particularly for genetics applied to animal husbandry
.

In all these positions he never stopped his research on

National Order of Scientific Merit
at the Grã-Cruz class in 1994.

Selected papers

Sources

References

  1. ^ "National Academy of Sciences".
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