| LC control no. | n 86097115 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Eisner, Thomas, 1929-2011 |
| Variant(s) | Eisner, Tom, 1929-2011 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Cornell University. Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology |
| Associated country | Germany United States |
| Associated place | Uruguay |
| Birth date | 1929-06-25 |
| Death date | 2011-03-25 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Place of death | Ithaca (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Chemical ecology Animal chemical defenses Insects--Chemical ecology Insects--Chemical defenses Pheromones Insects--Territoriality Animal behavior Nature photography |
| Affiliation | Cornell University Harvard University Champlain College |
| Profession or occupation | Biologists Entomologists Photographers Independent filmmakers |
| Found in | His Chemische Ökologie, Territorialität, gegenseitige Verständigung, 1986: t.p. (Thomas Eisner) verso of t.p. (Prof. Dr.; Section of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell Univ., N.Y.) LC data base, 9-29-86 (hdg.: Eisner, Thomas, 1929- ) Obituary in New York times, Mar. 31, 2011 (b. June 25, 1929, in Berlin, d. Friday [Mar. 25, 2011], in Ithaca, N.Y.) Harvard University Press website, Secret weapons : defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures, 2007, viewed October 2, 2024 (Thomas Eisner was J.G. Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University; in 1994 he was awarded the National Medal of Science; his film Secret Weapons won the Grand Award at the New York Film Festival and was named Best Science Film by the British Association for the Advancement of Science; coauthor Maria Eisner, Research Associate of Biology at Cornell University) <https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674024038> Cornell Chronicle (online), Tom Eisner, 'father of chemical ecology' and renowned Cornell biologist, dies at 81, March 27, 2011, viewed October 2, 2024 (Thomas Eisner, authority on animal behavior, chemical ecology and evolution, and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Chemical Ecology at Cornell, died from complications of Parkinson's disease on March 25, at home in Ithaca, N.Y. age 81; considered the "father of chemical ecology" with Cornell colleague and friend Jerrold Meinwald; in nine books and on film, he chronicled how insects mate, trap their prey and fend off predators; he explored processes and systems among insects such as chemical defenses, and was an authority on their pheromones and chemical ecology; after their children grew up, his wife of 58 years, Maria, started working in his Cornell lab in 1978; his Jewish father, Hans Eisner, a pharmaceutical chemist, moved the family to Barcelona in 1933; the Spanish civil war prompted them to leave Europe and eventually settle in Uruguay; in 1947 the Eisner family moved to the United States; Tom Eisner enrolled at Champlain College, Plattsburgh, N.Y., then transferred to Harvard after two years, where he earned a B.A. in 1951 and Ph.D. in 1955, both in biology; joined the Cornell faculty in 1957 in the Department of Entomology; in 1964 he joined the new Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, which he helped to found and where he worked until his death; director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology; on the board of directors of the National Audubon Society, the National Scientific Council of the Nature Conservancy, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the World Resources Institute Council; president of the American Society of Naturalists and the Xerces Society; chairman of the Biology Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science; many academic honors and honorary degrees) <https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/03/tom-eisner-father-chemical-ecology-dies-81> |
| Associated language | ger eng |
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