William Morton Wheeler is a American Entomologiste , born the March 19th 1865 with Milwaukee and dead the April 19th 1937 with Cambridge.
It specializes initially on the Embryologie of the Insecte S and studies near Georg Baur (1859-1898), Anton Dohrn (1840-1909) and Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910) before turning to the study of the social behavior of the Insecte S, especially of the Fourmis. He plays a great part in the development of the ethology to the the United States of America and tries to popularize this term (in its current use) in an article in 1902 in Science .
Large taxonomist, it describes many S. It is the conservative of the Invertébré S with the American Museum off Natural History of New York of 1903 with 1908. He is elected with the National Academy off Sciences.
Wheeler maintains a relation followed with the Myrmécologiste and British Coléoptériste Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951). Wheeler will dedicate its first work to him on the ants in 1915. It translates into English the works of Auguste Forel (1848-1931).
List partial of the publications
- 1917 : The ants off Alaska (Museum off Cambridge).
Source
- Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of October 23rd, 2006).