Background
Born in 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Blum (pronounced to rhyme with "gum") grew up in that city and in Chicago, Illinois.
Born in 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Blum (pronounced to rhyme with "gum") grew up in that city and in Chicago, Illinois.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and his Doctor of Philosophy in entomology from the University of Illinois.
After serving in the United States. Army during the Korean War, he joined the faculty of Louisiana State University. In the 1960s he moved to the University of Georgia, where he spent three decades as a research professor before his retirement. Blum has concentrated much of his research in the area of chemical ecology, and is well-recognized as an expert on pheromones.
His subjects of interest also included the eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera) and imported fire ants as the latter species (Solenopsis invicta) spread through the southern United States.
Blum may be best-known outside of academia for his infrequent, but memorable television appearances. An extrovert with a sly sense of humor, he is remembered as the grinning scientist who convinced television personality Bryant Gumbel to join him in a breakfast of sauteed grubs on National Broadcasting Company"s Today Show.
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