Robert Cooley
Entomologist, Deceased Person
1873 – 1968
Who was Robert Cooley?
Robert Allen Cooley was a US entomologist. Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, he studied at Massachusetts Agricultural College and worked at Montana State College. He was appointed the first state entomologist for Montana in 1903, and worked on Rocky Mountain spotted fever, studying the life cycle of the tick that transmits the Rickettsia bacteria that cause the disease. He also worked on the eradication of the disease and from 1931 until his retirement in 1946 was head entomologist at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana, where the vaccine was developed. Cooley died at the age of 95 in Hamilton. The Cooley Laboratory at Montana State University is named in his honour.
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- Born
- Jun 27, 1873
Deerfield - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 16, 1968
Hamilton
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on July 23, 2013
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