Thomas Eisner | |
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| Born | June 25, 1929 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | March 25, 2011 (aged 81) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Pioneering chemical ecology |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1967) Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1990) National Medal of Science (1994) John J. Carty Award (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Insect chemical ecology |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
Thomas Eisner (June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology."[1] He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He was a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and, together with his Cornell colleague Jerrold Meinwald, was one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He was author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and seven books.