User:Shyamal/entomologists

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I am interested in the history of science (mainly biology) and surprisingly, Wikipedia tends to be quite weak in its coverage of historic figures, more so if the context is not English or American. Even for contemporary subjects, such simple matters as a freely-licensed portrait can easily be lacking. When I attend public talks by interesting speakers, I make it a point to check and fill any gaps here. I found that contributing even a really poor-quality photo can stimulate (make the subjects cringe and help out) improvement. This should be much easier for the more privileged who are in academia.

One of the effects of working on biographies is that one learns that scientists do not stand on the shoulders of giants to see better but rather by standing atop an enormous mound of largely unknown ants.

This is a working list of various scientists (not necessarily entomologists, but mostly biologists) who have not been covered on the English language Wikipedia.

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Insects/Entomologists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Skysmith%27s_list_of_missing_articles/Arthropods

Bibliography of Biographies Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Biography/Biologists

Ornithologists - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds/Article_requests/People

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arthropods/Article_requests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds/Article_requests/Interwiki_gaps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/People/Scientists,_inventors,_and_mathematicians

Ornithology history gaps to check

Wladyslaw Mierzeyewski
Casimir Szarki
Jan Marchlewski
John Haber
Jerzy Gotzman
Bolesław Jabłoński
Włodzimierz Puchalski - photographer, naturalist
Ludwik Tomiałojć
Andrzej Kruszewicz Andrzej Grzegorz Kruszewicz (born November 30, 1959 in Białystok )
Tadeusz Stawarczyk
Zenon Lewartowski

Sydney Basil-Edwardes (1899 - 2 December 1925, Simla) MBOU, Simla

Julien Achard (1881-1925)

India related - entomologists etc.

Ornithologists from Totalitarian times

Wilfried Przygodda (1916 -1991)
Boris Mikhailovich Pavlov (1933 - 1994)

The Aurelian Legacy

Robert Watson 1916-1984- 229
Richard Lawrence Edward Ford 1913-1996 231
Peter William Cribb 1920-1993 232
John Heath 1922-1987 233
William West 1836-1920 172
William Holland 1845-1930 180
Robert Adkin 1849-1935 186
Edward Bagwell Purefoy 1868-1960 207
Leonard Woods Newman 1873-1949 209
Henry Attfield Leeds 1873-1958 211
Robert Watson 1916-1984 229
Richard Lawrence Edward Ford 1913-1996 231
Peter William Cribb 1920-1993 232

Hymenopterists

Dictionary of Scientific Biography

This is a list of pending entries from the full list extracted from here. A real shame that the anglophone world is so closed - one really has to admire the comprehensiveness of the German Wikipedia in this set... most have now been done, the last few remaining ...