Carl Barton Huffaker

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Carl Barton Huffaker (30 September 1914, Monticello, Kentucky – 10 October 1995, Lafayette, California) was an American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist.

Huffaker graduated from the University of Tennessee (1938 B.S., 1939 M.S.) then gaining a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1942. After working as a medical entomologist in Colombia, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic he was recruited by the Division of Biological Control of the University of California. He remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 1984.

He published more than 200 scientific papers and edited and contributed to books “citation classics” in population ecology, biological control, and integrated pest management. Examples are Theory and Practice of Biological Control (1976) and Ecological Entomology (1984). He also conducted a notable experiment on predator-prey population dynamics in mites in 1958.

Huffaker was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America served as its President and was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in 1976.

External links

Biography at National Academy Press.Includes biography.
Citation Classic
Center for Biological Control
Works by or about Carl Barton Huffaker in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

v t e Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Agriculture

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 109885869 LCCN: n82231893 ISNI: 0000 0001 1082 3156 GND: 131673653 BNF: cb134960535

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Name	Huffaker, Carl Barton
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Short description	American entomologist
Date of birth	30 September 1914
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Date of death	10 October 1995
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