Background
He was born the son of Fred Albert Shannon and Edna M. (Jones) Shannon.
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Frederick Shannon
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Education
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. University of Illinois system.
Career
In 1939, Shannon moved to Champaign, Illinois and began studying Zoology at the University of Illinois, where he got a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology in 1943. He then started studying medicine and got an Doctor of Medicine in 1947. He practised for one year at the Saint Joseph"s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona before going back to Illinois for some post-graduate herpetology work.
In 1949 he moved to Wickenburg, Arizona.
Between 1951 and 1953, Shannon was sent as a Lieutenant to of Korea, where he still found opportunities to collect many reptile specimens. Back in the United States., he published many articles on poisonous snake bites, venomology, and herpetology.
From 1956 on, he collected specimens mainly in Mexico. He died from the bite of a Mojave Rattlesnake he had attempted to catch.
