The most famous entomologist

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Juglans, 27.02.2011 11:04

I watched a presentation for a lecture on entomology - Fabre was declared the most famous entomologist in it. In general, we can agree with this, but still the most cited entomologist in the scientific literature is Hennig . Maybe I'm wrong?

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27.02.2011 14:01, Victor Titov

Who is the most famous entomologist? Well, it depends on the audience in which the survey is conducted. Among ordinary people, the result will be the same (and, most likely, it is still Fabr), among professionals and "burned-out" amateurs, the answers will be more diverse (although here Fabr, at least, will be among the leaders). Nabokov's popularity as an entomologist is somewhat surprising - for most people who are far from the topic, he is still primarily the author of Lolita. But for some reason, no one named Nikolai Nikolaevich Plavilshchikov. In my opinion, he was undeservedly not immediately included in the list of applicants. As a child, we all read his books, and in addition to popularizing biological knowledge in general (remember his "Homunculus"), he (unlike Nabokov-with all due respect) is an Entomologist without any reservations.

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27.02.2011 18:25, Victor Titov

I think Nabokov is the most famous and Walter Rothschild

1. Nabokov
2. Walter Rothschild
is a great writer and the greatest tycoon.

About Nabokov as a writer (famous, famous

) and Rothschild as a banker, no doubt, has been heard by most and something is known by many. But ask 10 people who are far from biology (and entomology in particular) if they know about the achievements of these worthy men in entomology (or that they did it at all). I am sure that it is unlikely that there will be more than one or two people who have heard about it among the ten interviewed at random (at best, only a few will remember that one of these Jewish barons collected fleas

). And the question was initially raised, as far as I understood, not about which entomologists became famous "on the other side of the moon" (including a famous writer or tycoon), but who is famous precisely and primarily because of their entomological field. And here, as it seems to me, Fabre is out of competition.

I conduct a survey for a completely non-target audience. No answers yet:...Durimar...

Benedict and Durimar don't come here - they weren't there.

Well, what does Durimar (even as a fictional character) have to do with it? He's more of a hirudologist!

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28.02.2011 7:52, palvasru4ko

If you take Nabokov as a professional entomologist, and he was such and this is a fact, and take Nabokov's fame as a person (writer, etc.), then he will be in the first place. Film adaptations, books. The question was who is the most famous entomologist. This is Nabokov! But not in the field of entomology!

That's exactly what is NOT in the field of entomology! Over the past 5 or 6 years, I have interviewed about fifty people of different professions and interests, united by one thing - they all read Lolita, and some also read Ada. So, among them was only one (!), a journalist by profession, who knew that " Nabokov collected butterflies." So Nabokov is an entomologist for NON-entomologists-a writer, and people's eyes go out when it turns out that he is an entomologist.

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28.02.2011 8:38, palvasru4ko

However, among entomologists, he is the most famous

It's like trying to figure out who Leonardo da Vinci was. As an artist-he did not fully fulfill any major orders, although he worked in the workshop of the famous master Verocchio, as a sculptor-he wanted to create a giant statue of a horse, but created only a clay model, which was later destroyed. As an anatomist, I made a lot of sketches and text explanations, but I didn't publish a single page. As a military consultant, he came up with a bunch of ideas that were centuries ahead of their time, but practically nothing came up during his lifetime (at least, there is no documentary evidence). So is Nabokov - everyone knows about him, but what exactly he did is a question for many.