Henry Baldwin Ward

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Henry Baldwin Ward
Born(1865-03-04)March 4, 1865
Troy, New York
DiedNovember 30, 1945(1945-11-30) (aged 80)
Champaign, Illinois
Education
OccupationZoologist
Spouse
Harriet Cecilia Blair
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(m. 1894)​
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Henry Baldwin Ward (4 March 1865 – 30 November 1945) was an American zoologist and parasitologist.[1] He was the founder and first president of The American Society of Parasitologists, and founder-editor of the Journal of Parasitology.

Biography[edit]

Ward was born on March 4, 1865, in Troy, New York.[2] His father, Richard Halsted Ward, was a professor of biology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[3] He got his bachelor's degree from Williams College of Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1885. He became an instructor of Science at Troy High School, where he served from 1886 to 1888.[2] For two years, from 1888 to 1980,[3] he participated in postgraduate study in European universities in cities like Göttingen, Freiburg, and Leipzig, and in biological facilities at Naples, Heligoland, and Villefranche-sur-Mer.[2] He got his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1892.[3]

He accepted a job as Instructor of Morphology at the University of Michigan in 1892. Next year, he got a job as an Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Nebraska. In 1893, the Michigan Fish Commission commissioned him to study the sources of food for fish in the Traverse Bay area due in part to the decline in commercial fishing industry in Northern Michigan.[4] Ward got promoted to a professor in 1899. Three years later he became a dean of the College of Medicine. In 1909 he was named Professor of Zoology at the University of Illinois, where he got his Emeritus Professor title in 1933. He remained there until his death at his home in Champaign on November 30, 1945.[5][6]

Besides his zoology work, Ward also made contributions to phycology and parasitology. He founded the Journal of Parasitology in 1914,[1] and was the first president of The American Society of Parasitologists (ASP). The Ward Medal of the ASP, established in 1959, is named in his honor.[7] He was permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1933 to 1937, continuing as its executive committee member till 1941.[8]

He married Harriet Cecilia Blair on September 11, 1894, and they had two children.[2]

A prominent conservationist, he was president of the Izaak Walton League from 1928 to 1929.[6][9]

The standard author abbreviation H.B.Ward is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Christie, Jesse R. (1946). "Henry Baldwin Ward (1865-1945)". The Journal of Parasitology. 32 (3): 323–324. ISSN 0022-3395. JSTOR 3272683.
  2. ^ a b c d The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIII. James T. White & Company. 1906. p. 150. Retrieved August 20, 2020 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c Hawkins, Hugh (1980). "Transatlantic Discipleship: Two American Biologists and Their German Mentor". Isis. 71 (2): 197–210. doi:10.1086/352460. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 230171. PMID 6995396. S2CID 35730668.
  4. ^ Ward, Henry (August 1, 1896). "A Biological Examination of Lake Michigan in the Traverse Bay Region". Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska (Paper 14). Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  5. ^ "Biography". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Conservationist Dies". The Dispatch. Champaign. UP. December 1, 1945. p. 13. Retrieved August 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Henry Baldwin Ward Medal". Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  8. ^ Kiger, Joseph C. (1962). "The American Society of Parasitologists: A Short History". The Journal of Parasitology. 48 (5): 641–650. ISSN 0022-3395. JSTOR 3275251. PMID 14032553.
  9. ^ "National Presidents and Convention Locations". Izaak Walton League. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  10. ^ International Plant Names Index.  H.B.Ward.
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