Background
Bates, Marston was born on July 23, 1906 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Glenn Freeman and Amy Mabel (Button) Bates.
Bates, Marston was born on July 23, 1906 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Glenn Freeman and Amy Mabel (Button) Bates.
Bachelor of Science, University Florida, 1927. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1933, Doctor of Philosophy, 1934. Doctor of Science, Kalamazoo College, 1956.
Bates" studies on mosquitoes contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America. Born in Michigan, Bates received a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Florida in 1927. He lived for many years in Villavicencio between the mountains and the llanos in central Colombia.
From 1952 until 1971 he was a professor at the University of Michigan.
He was the author of many popular science books In 1960, he published the ecological science book The Forest and the Sea, an introduction to how ecosystems work.
He compares a rain forest and a tropical sea, their similarities and differences, and through it demonstrates how to understand biological systems
(This book covers the past and present of the land and wil...)
Member division committee biological and medical science National Science Foundation, 1952-1958, chairman, 1956-1958. Member Pacific Science Board, American Society Naturalists (president 1961), Council Foreign Relations, American Academy Arts and Sciences, many science societies. Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Nancy Bell Fairchild, January 11, 1939. Children: Marian Hubbard, Sally Norton, Barbara Fairchild, Glenn Peregrine.