Entomology
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Entomology, from Ancient Greek ἔντομον, meaning "insect", and λόγος, meaning "study", is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In the pa
Plate from Transactions of the Entomological Society, 1848
An entomologist collecting in the field.
Example of a collection barcode on a pinned beetle specimen
The Entomology Research Collection at Lincoln University, New Zealand, with curator John Marris
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
Entomology
…rapidly in the 19th and 20th centuries and was studied by large numbers of people, including such notable figures as Charles Darwin, Jean-Henri Fabre, Vladimir Nabokov, Karl von Frisch (winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), and twice Pulitzer Prize winner E. O. Wilson. There has also been a history…
Nabokov in 1973
Nabokov's grandfather Dmitry Nabokov, who was Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II
Nabokov's father, V. D. Nabokov, in his World War I officer's uniform, 1914
The Nabokov family mansion in Saint Petersburg; today it is the site of the Nabokov museum.