Marston Bates 1555783 216480768 2008-06-01T21:12:42Z Sailboatrebuilder 7226517 /* Books */ {{Infobox Scientist |name = {{PAGENAME}} |box_width = |image =Replace_this_image_male.svg |image_width =150px |caption = {{PAGENAME}} |birth_date = [[July 23]], [[1906]] |birth_place = |death_date = [[April 3]], [[1974]] |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States|American]] |ethnicity = |field = [[zoology]]<br/>[[epidemiology]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[mosquito]]es<br/>[[yellow fever]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }}Dr. '''Marston Bates''' ([[July 23]], [[1906]] – [[April 3]], [[1974]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[zoologist]]. Bates studies on [[mosquito]]es contributed to the understanding of the [[epidemiology]] of [[yellow fever]] in northern [[South America]], and he was the author of many popular science books. He was married to Nancy Bell Fairchild, daughter of the botanist [[David Fairchild]]; thus he married into the [[Fairchild family]], descendants of Thomas Fairchild of [[Stratford, Connecticut|Stratford]], [[Connecticut]]. In 1960, he published The Forest and the Sea, a hugely influential book on the then-new science of ecology. ==Books== *''The Forest and the Sea'' (1960; Random House) *''The Land and Wildlife of South America'' (1964; Series: [[LIFE Nature Library]]) ==References== * Richard Harmond.''Bates, Marston''. American National Biography Online, February 2000. {{Onesource|biographical article|date=December 2007}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bates, Marston}} [[Category:1906 births]] [[Category:1974 deaths]] [[Category:American zoologists]] [[Category:American entomologists]] {{zoologist-stub}} {{US-biologist-stub}}