Raymond Corbett Shannon
{{short description|American entomologist}}
Raymond Corbett Shannon (October 4, 1894 – March 7, 1945) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera and medical entomology.
Life and career
Shannon was born in Washington, D.C. He was orphaned as a child.{{citation | url=http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/perry/bios/ShannonRaymond.htm | title=Raymond Corbett Shannon | publisher=U.S. Geological Survey | work=Patuxent Wildlife Research Center}} His studies at Cornell University were interrupted by World War I, but he received his B.S. there in 1923. He was employed by the U.S. Bureau of Entomology from 1912 to 1916 and 1923 to 1925. In 1926, he began graduate studies at George Washington University, and from 1927, he was employed by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.{{citation|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16261104|last1=McAtee|first1=W. L.|first2=Wade|last2=J. S.|year=1951|title=Raymond Corbett Shannon 1894–1945|journal=Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash.|volume=53|pages=211–222|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
He published over 100 articles on the characteristics, environment, and behavior of insects and on their aspects as disease vectors. One of his discoveries, in 1930, was the arrival of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries malaria, into the New World.{{citation|title=Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe|year=2002|publisher=Hyperion|page=131|first1=Andrew|last1=Spielman|first2=Michael|last2=D'Antonio|isbn=978-0-7868-8667-8}}.{{Citation | author=Williams, Greer | title=The Plague Killers | publisher=Scribner | year=1969 | page=134}}{{citation|title=Toward the well-being of mankind: fifty years of the Rockefeller Foundation|first1=Robert|last1=Shaplen|first2=Arthur Bernon|last2=Tourtellot|year=1964|publisher=Doubleday|page=33}}.{{citation | title=African Mosquito Ravaging Brazil; Rockefeller Fund Reports It Killed 10% of Population in Some Areas Last Year; U.S. Invasion Is Feared; Until 1930 Anopheles Gambiae, Malaria Carrier, Was Unknown on This Side of Atlantic | work=New York Times | date=27 March 1939}}
On his death at the age of 50, he left his library and insect collection to the Smithsonian Institution.{{citation | url=http://entomology.si.edu/Diptera_History.htm | title=History of the USNM Diptera Collection | publisher=Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History | author=Thompson, F. Christian}}
His wife was Elnora Pettit (Sutherlin) Hundley.{{citation | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igFNAAAAYAAJ&q=Elnora+SUTHERLIN+SHANNON | title=Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture| year=1922}}{{citation | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-aTl-sLzwEC&q=Elnora+SUTHERLIN+SHANNON | title=Who's Who in the Midwest, 1984-1985 | journal=Marquis Who's Who |date=January 1, 1984| isbn=9780837907192 }}{{citation | url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=elnora-hundley&pid=127101523 | title=Elnora Hundley | newspaper=Washington Post | date=10 May 2009}} His son was DePaul University accounting professor Donald Sutherlin Shannon, and his grandson is Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon.{{citation | url=http://legacy.suntimes.com/ChicagoSunTimes/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=120590054 | title=Dr. Donald S. Shannon | work=Chicago Sun-Times | date=24 November 2008}}
References
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Further reading
- {{citation|last1=Gillette|first1=Horace P. S|last2=Bevier|first2=George|title=Obituary: Raymond Corbett Shannon|journal=Caribbean Medical Journal|volume=7|pages=54–55|year=1945}}.
- {{citation|last=Mallis|first=A.|year=1971|title=American Entomologists|publisher=Rutgers Univ. Press|location=New Brunswick, NJ|pages=499–500}}.
- {{citation|last=Osborn|first=H.|year=1937|title=Fragments of Entomological History Including Some Personal Recollections of Men and Events|location=Columbus, OH|pages=1–394}}. Published by the author.
- {{citation|work=New York Times|title=Malarial Expert Dies: Dr. Shannon, With Rockefeller Foundation, Leaves 2 Notes|date=March 9, 1945}}.
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Category:American entomologists
Category:American science writers
Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:Smithsonian Institution donors
Category:Scientists from Washington, D.C.