Justin O. Schmidt ( born Justin Orvel Schmidt , born in 1947) is an American biologist and entomologist specializing in hymenoptera , an internationally recognized expert on their bites and stings , and testing them for himself. Creator of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index (Schmidt sting strength scale). Ph.D., professor.
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He received his Ph.D. in Entomology in 1977 at the University of Georgia. In 1970 he studied at the Institute of Ecology.
Fellow of the Southwestern Biological Institute of Arizona University , where he is also a professor at the Department of Entomology [1] .
He lives in Tucson , Arizona [2] .
J. Schmidt gained fame as a connoisseur of bites and stings of insects from around the world, who tested them for himself. During his career, insects have bitten and stung him hundreds of times [3] . (In his own words, he experienced it more than a thousand times by representatives of about 150 different species (often by accident) [4] .) Although Schmidt opposed biting and stinging him, sometimes he tends to be driven by research interest [5] .
In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Entomology.
Co-editor of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies for Prey and Predators (1990). The author of the book "The Sting of the Wild: The Story of the Man Who Got Stung for Science" (2016), which received positive reviews [6] .
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- ↑ Justin O. Schmidt | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE (inaccessible link) . The appeal date is August 22, 2016. Archived July 20, 2012.
- ↑ Justin O. Schmidt - Science Friday
- 150 After 150 different insect stings, this entomologist became a connoisseur of pain
- ↑ BBC - Earth - The most painful insect sting
- Ung Stung By 83 Different Insects, Biologist Rates His Pain On A Scale Of 1 To - OW! : NPR
- ↑ The Sting of the Wild