Steinhaus, Edward Arthur

Edward Steinhaus was born at Max, North Dakota, USA, on November 7, 1914. H graduated from North Dakota State University in 1936 with a degree in bacteriology, and then moved to Ohio State University where he received a Ph.D. in 1939. In 1940 he joined the staff of the U.S. Public Health Service Rocky Mountain Laboratory, and then moved to the University of California at Berkeley in 1944. He organized and chaired the Laboratory of insect pathology in 1945, which became the Department of insect pathology in 1960, and then the Division of invertebrate pathology in 1963. Later he moved to the University of California at Irvine as dean of Biological Science. Edward Steinhaus was the most distinguished insect pathologist of his era, and created the world’s foremost program in insect pathology at Berekeley. He authored 200 publications on insect pathology and the first comprehensive publications on the subject: “Insect microbiology” (1946), “Principles of insect pathology” (1949), and...