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Charles Duncan Michener, genannt ‘Mich’, (* 22. September 1918 in Pasadena, Kalifornien; † 1. November 2015 in Lawrence, Kansas) war ein US-amerikanischer Entomologe. Er gilt als der bedeutendste Bienenkundler seiner Zeit.
Charles Duncan Michener (September 22, 1918 – November 1, 2015) was an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He was a leading expert on bees, his magnum opus being The Bees of the World published in 2000.
3. März 2017 · Within the first week of November 2015, the world said farewell to two titans of biological research, each with substantial and lengthy careers dedicated to reciprocal sides of the bee–flower story—floral ecologist Stefan Vogel (1925–2015) and melittologist Charles D. Michener (1918–2015).
- Michael S. Engel, Michael S. Engel
- msengel@ku.edu
- 2017
2. Feb. 2016 · Charles Duncan Michener, 1918–2015. Paul was just 15 when he met Michener (Mich), who was curator of Lepidoptera at the American Museum of Natural History. He seemed to be very old to Paul (Mich was 29) and Paul thought even then that Mich was a great scientist (he was right).
- Berry J. Brosi, Paul R. Ehrlich
- 10.1073/pnas.1600285113
- 2016
- 2016/02/02
9. Feb. 2016 · Michener and Sokal decided the debate had to be settled by experiment, and that led to the famous test on Mich’s bees and the publication of a paper that showed Sokal to be correct (and Mich and Paul dead wrong) and transformed a major area of evolutionary biology.
9. Feb. 2016 · CD Michener, A review of the tribes Diphagiossini and Dissogiottini (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). Univ Kans Sci Bull 53, 183–214 (1986).
We are sad to report the death of long-time Kansas Entomological Society member, the distinguished and world-renowned entomologist, Charles Duncan Michener, who died peacefully of heart failure at his home in Lawrence, Kansas on November 1, 2015.
