Justin O. Schmidt

Justin O. Schmidt

zoologist
entomologist
🇺🇸United States

Justin Orvel Schmidt was an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, author of The Sting of the Wild, and creator of the Schmidt sting pain index. Schmidt studied honey bee nutrition, chemical communication, physiology, ecology, and behavior at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona, before taking lead and devoting full-time to The Southwestern Biological Institute in 2006. As research director of the Southwest Biological Institute, he studied the chemical and behavioral defenses of ants, wasps, and arachnids.

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1947 – 2023
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Born in
Rhinelander
Educated at
Pennsylvania State University
Awards
🏆 Ig Nobel Prize

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  • 1947

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  • 2023

    Died

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