Thomas Eisner
Academic
1929 – 2011
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Who was Thomas Eisner?
Thomas Eisner was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology. He was a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and, together with his Cornell colleague, Jerrold Meinwald, was one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He was author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and seven books.
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1929
Berlin - Also known as
- Айснер, Томас
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
- Lived in
- Ithaca
( - 2011/03/25)
- Ithaca
- Died
- Mar 25, 2011
Ithaca
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on July 23, 2013
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