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    Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth CBE FRS (17 April 1899 – 11 February 1994) was a British entomologist who made significant contributions to the field of...
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    rodents, marsupials, sloths, and reptiles. The insect was used by Sir Vincent Wigglesworth for the detection of insect hormones. It has been implicated in the...
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  • aspects of insect physiology. The first discovery of a JH was by Vincent Wigglesworth. JHs regulate development, reproduction, diapause, and polyphenisms...
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  • anesthetic. His impact on entomology has been compared to that of Vincent Wigglesworth. Williams was educated at the University of Richmond and Harvard...
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  • "brain hormone" by early workers such as Stefan Kopeć (1922) and Vincent Wigglesworth (1934), who realized that ligation of the head of immature insects...
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    existence and extent of pain in invertebrates, including insects. Vincent Wigglesworth suggests giving insects the benefit of the doubt, in case they can...
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    Chagas disease. The Rhodnius species were important models for Sir Vincent Wigglesworth's studies of insect physiology, specifically growth and development...
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  • research on tsetse flies, and went to the United Kingdom to study with Vincent Wigglesworth, regarded as the father of insect physiology, at the Department of...
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  • provincial election Vincent Wigglesworth (1899–1994), British entomologist and discoverer of prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847–1931)...
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  • 1926-1955: Sir James Gray 1952-1974: J. A. Ramsay 1955-1974: Sir Vincent Wigglesworth 1974-1989: John Treherne 1989-1994: Charlie Ellington 1994-2003:...
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  • role of Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro) and his gay twin brother Bunny Wigglesworth, aka Ramón de la Vega. In 1840s Madrid, Spain, Don Diego de la Vega is...
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  • 1959-1960 Arthur F. Burns, Economics, Columbia University 1958-1959 Vincent Wigglesworth, Zoology, University of Cambridge 1957-1958 Guido Pontecorvo, Genetics...
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  • Smith Fiona Stanley Broughton Waddy Charlotte Watts Chris Whitty Vincent Wigglesworth John "Jack" P. Woodall Sir Francis Lovell Dean of London School of...
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  • February – Mel Calman, cartoonist (born 1931) 11 February – Sir Vincent Wigglesworth, entomologist (born 1899) 13 February – Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron...
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  • attended the University of Cambridge for his PhD under entomologist Vincent Wigglesworth, graduating in 1955. His doctoral research centered on the diet and...
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  • in 1965 under the supervision of the guru of insect physiology, Vincent Wigglesworth, producing a ‘phenomenally productive’ thesis on the reproductive...
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  • Metamorphosis, published in 2011 describes the pioneering contributions of Vincent Wigglesworth and Carroll Williams to insect metamorphosis and more controversially...
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  • on a Harkness Fellowship; he gained his doctorate as a student of Vincent Wigglesworth for work on Oncopeltus fasciatus (milkweed bug) Lawrence's main discoveries...
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  • accident. Saul Weprin, 66, American attorney and politician, stroke. Vincent Wigglesworth, 94, British entomologist. Charles Critchfield, 83, American mathematical...
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    recognition of his distinguished work on nuclear and atomic physics." 1955 Vincent Wigglesworth Entomology "In recognition of his distinguished experimental contributions...
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  • Lupton 1981 J.K.A. Bleasdale 1980–1981 B.D. Harrison 1966–1967 Sir Vincent Wigglesworth 1945–1946 Carrington Bonsor Williams 1938–1940 C H Gimingham 1928–1929...
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  • nuclear interactions at very great energies. — Alexander R. Todd New horizons in organic chemistry. — Vincent Wigglesworth The metamorphosis of insects. —...
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  • States Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann 1770 1840 Germany Diptera Vincent Wigglesworth 1899 1994 United Kingdom Benjamin Wilkes c. 1749 United Kingdom Lepidoptera...
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  • Dental University. His early research attracted the attention of Vincent Wigglesworth of Cambridge University, a prominent insect researcher, and Donald...
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    welfare is being taken increasingly seriously in laboratory settings. Vincent Wigglesworth suggested a precautionary approach of anaesthetizing insects during...
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  • Smith 1980 William Homan Thorpe 1979 Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards 1978 Vincent Wigglesworth 1977 Sidnie Milana Manton 1976 Ernest James William Barrington 1975...
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  • BBC News. May 29, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2013. Cromelin, Richard; Wigglesworth, Alex; Winton, Richard (January 17, 2021). "Phil Spector, music producer...
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    held at the tercentenary of the Royal Society of London in 1960 Vincent Wigglesworth 1960 Wilkins Lecture 1947 The Wilkins Lecture was created in 1947...
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  • the Insect Physiology Unit at Downing College in Cambridge under Vincent Wigglesworth as a lecturer and reader. In 1955 he worked under the Agricultural...
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  • Barrett Eric Francis Cutcliffe B.G. Levich James Dwyer McGee Sir Vincent Wigglesworth Kenneth G. Denbigh Sir Kingsley Dunham Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Sir David...
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