| LC control no. | n 79077436 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Timberlake, P. H. (Philip Hunter), 1883-1981 |
| Variant(s) | Timberlake, Philip Hunter, 1883- |
| Birth date | 1883-06-05 |
| Death date | 1981-04-17 |
| Place of birth | Bethel (Me.) |
| Place of death | Riverside (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Bureau of Entomology Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Experiment Station University of California, Riverside |
| Profession or occupation | Entomologists |
| Found in | His A revision of the chalcid flies ... 1922. California Academy of Sciences web site, Mar. 1, 2007: biographical sketch (Philip Hunter Timberlake; b. June 5, 1883; d. April 17, 1981) Wikipedia, February 11, 2020 (Philip Hunter Timberlake; Philip Hunter Timberlake (1883-1981) was one of the most prolific American entomologists of the 20th century; he was born June 5, 1883 in Bethel, Maine, and died in 1981 in Riverside, California, where he had served as an Associate Entomologist in the Department of Entomology of the University of California, Riverside; from 1909-1914, Timberlake was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology as “Agent and Expert” conducting research in biological control of pest insects; from 1914-1924 he was Associate Entomologist at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Experiment Station in Honolulu, where his research dealt primarily with biological control using parasites and predators; in 1924 he was appointed Associate Entomologist in the Department of Biological Control at the Citrus Experiment Station of the University of California, Riverside, where he served until retirement in 1950; he described and named about 800 species of bees in total over his career, and several other species in other insect groups; he published over 100 scientific papers, mostly on bees, in addition to 8 volumes on the genus Perdita alone; he married his wife, Edith, in 1917 in Honolulu, and they had three children; Edith was the sister of Hannah Milhous Nixon and an aunt of former President Richard M. Nixon) |
| Associated language | eng |
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