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10. Edward Arthur Steinhaus
10. Edward Arthur Steinhaus
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138, 165 pp. On the symmetric arrangement in the elements of the Paleozoic platform of North America.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1911 Stratigraphic significance of the wide distribution of graptolites.
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N.Y. State Mus.
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Geol., 38:367-77. Fundamental lines of North American geologic structures.
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Natural History, 26: 505-14. Neuere amerikanische Theorien uber die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane.
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Making fossils popular in the New York State Museum.
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Sci., 23:33749. Guide to the fossil exhibits of the New York State Museum.
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The dates of publication of the earlier New York State Museum reports. Science, 84: 373-74.
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Brief sketch of the geological work of the State Museum.
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1947 Memorial to Edward Oscar Ulrich, 1857-1944. National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, 24:259-80.
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Steinhaus had an extraordinarily productive career durin;, his fifty-four years of life. He was an outstanding research scientist in the fields of insect microbiology and insect pathology, an inspiring teacher of many of the world's leading insect pathologists, an able educator who was instrumental in the formation of the innovative "new biology" curricula, the author of a great body of scientific publications, and the organizer of the new scientific discipline of invertebrate pathology.
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Edward Arthur Steinhaus, who became known merely as "Ed" to his family, close friends, and associates, was born in Max, North Dakota, on November 7, 1914. The influence of a proud, talented, and industrious family, combined with his early life and experiences in the small economically depressed rural community of Max, had much to do with Ed's choice of a career, as well as with his concern for his fellow men, especially those who might be underprivileged.
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Ed often told of the lively discussions on religious, political, and social issues that took place around the large coal stove in the back of the store during cold winter days. Ed's own writings reveal that his mother had a major influence on his interests, personality, and general philosophy of life.
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Steinhaus entered the North Dakota Agricultural College (now called North Dakota State University)
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Moreover, the increasing need for food, fiber, and other essential agricultural crops to feed the ever-expanding world population will demand the availability of effective as well as safe ways to control insect pests—man's greatest competitor for the food that the environment is capable of producing. During the days of Ed's initial research in the early forties,
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In 1940 he published an article reviewing his work. He continued compiling information and making observations in his own studies, and his efforts led to a compendium of microorganisms associated with insects which was published in 1946 as a book entitled Insect Microbiology.
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The series of rather thorough physical fitness examinations revealed a large number of serious internal physical defects, any one of which could have disqualified him for military duty. Subsequently, more detailed and refined medical examinations were made in attempts to offer the explanation for his many health problems which surfaced over the years.
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There he received an appointment in the Department of Bacteriology in 1944 and was soon transferred to the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station as Assistant Professor of Insect Pathology and Assistant Insect Pathologist, respectively. His advancement to higher positions came steadily.
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He was a tireless administrator, an indefatigable researcher, and a concerned and understanding teacher, admired by undergraduates and graduates alike. Dean Steinhaus organized, staffed, and developed a program in the biological sciences that is unique in this country today." Dean Steinhaus trained and developed most of the senior insect pathologists of the world today.
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Although the insect pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis was known for years, he recognized its potential for controlling insects and investigated its pathogenic characteristics, including the associated endotoxin. His study of this organism included field tests which demonstrated the effectiveness of the organism for the control of several economic insect pests.
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Steinhaus's services and by the many honors he received. His alma mater, North Dakota State University, awarded him an honorary Sc.D.
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This he did as Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He organized the school into departments concerned with "organismic biology," "population and environmental biology," "molecular and cell biology," and "psychobiology." Also, while serving as Dean of the School of Biological BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS Sciences, he continued his interest in invertebrate pathology, establishing and later electing to direct a new center for pathobiology.
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He expressed concern over the lack of appreciation of the close interrelationships of science and other developments. Some of his last written words in his unpublished autobiographical manuscript were ".
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To him religion should be a way of life and not just a way of believing. As a youth he was exposed to the traditional concepts of religion existing in a Protestant community consisting principally of German Lutherans, the denomination to which his father belonged.
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