Raymond Shannon

October 4, 1894 (age 50)

Washington Doctorate

He was orphaned as a child. His studies at Cornell University were interrupted by World War I, but he received his Bachelor of Surgery from there in 1923. He was employed by the United States. Bureau of Entomology from 1912–1916, and again from 1923–1925. In 1926, he began graduate studies at George Washington University, and from 1927 on he was employed by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. He published over 100 articles on the characteristics, environment and behavior of insects and on their aspects as disease vectors. One of his discoveries, in 1930, was of the arrival of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries malaria, into the New World. On his death at the age of 50, he left his library and insect collection to the Smithsonian Institution.

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Shannon was born in Washington District of Columbia

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Cornell University.

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He was orphaned as a child. His studies at Cornell University were interrupted by World War I, but he received his Bachelor of Surgery from there in 1923. He was employed by the United States. Bureau of Entomology from 1912–1916, and again from 1923–1925.

In 1926, he began graduate studies at George Washington University, and from 1927 on he was employed by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.

He published over 100 articles on the characteristics, environment and behavior of insects and on their aspects as disease vectors. One of his discoveries, in 1930, was of the arrival of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries malaria, into the New World.

On his death at the age of 50, he left his library and insect collection to the Smithsonian Institution.

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