astronomy

Marston Bates

Marston Bates is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Marston Bates rather than just read about it. In short: Marston Bates (July 23, 1906 – April 3, 1974) was an American zoologist and environmental author. Bates' studies on mosquitoes contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America.

Key takeaways

Marston Bates belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Marston Bates to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Marston Bates from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Marston Bates (July 23, 1906 – April 3, 1974) was an American zoologist and environmental author. Bates' studies on mosquitoes contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America.

Biography Born in Michigan, Bates received a BS in biology from the University of Florida in 1927. From 1928 to 1931, he worked as an entomologist for the United Fruit Company in Central America. He received a PhD in zoology in 1934 from Harvard University. He worked for the Rockefeller Foundation from 1935 to 1952, studying mosquito ecology, malaria, yellow fever, and human population. He lived for many years in Villavicencio between the mountains and the llanos in central Colombia. He served as special assistant to the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1950–1952. From 1952 until 1971 he was a professor at the University of Michigan. During that time, he also served as member of the National Research Council's expedition to the Ifalik Atoll in the South Pacific (1953), director of research at the University of Puerto Rico (1956-1957), and member of the Committee on Biological and Medical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (1952-1958). He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America in 1940 and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958. He was the author of many popular science books. He was married to Nancy Bell Fairchild, daughter of the botanist David Fairchild and granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell. 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.

Books Insectos Nocivos: Estudio de Las Principales Plagas Guatemaltecas (1932) Ciudad de Guatemala: Anuario del Servicio técnico de cooperación agrícola. “The Butterflies of Cuba.” (1935) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 78 (2): 65–258. The Natural History of Mosquitoes (1949) MacMillan; New York ASIN B001A8DVMU The Nature of Natural History (1950) Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 309 pp. 2014 pbk reprint. Princeton University Press. 14 July 2014. ISBN 978-0-691-02446-2; with a new preface by Henry S. Horn{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) Where Winter Never Comes: A Study of Man and Nature in the Tropics (1952) Charles Scribner's Sons; New York The Prevalence of People (1955) Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. Thomas Jr., William L., Carl O. Sauer, Marston Bates, and Lewis Mumford, eds. Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1956) University of Chicago Press. Bates, Marston, and Philip S. Humphrey. Darwin Reader (1956) Scribner. Bates, Marston, and Donald Putnam Abbott. Coral Island: Portrait of an Atoll (1958) Scribner. Bates, Marston, and Donald Putnam Abbott. Ifaluk: Portrait of a Coral Island (1959) Museum Press. The Forest and the Sea: A Look at the Economy of Nature and the Ecology of Man. (1960) Random House (1988) Lyons Man in Nature (1961) Prentice-Hall. Bates, Marston, C. Haven Kolb, and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, American Institute of Biological Sciences. High School Biology: BSCS Green Version (1963) Rand McNally & Company. Animal Worlds (1963) Random House. The Land and Wildlife of South America (1964) part of the Life Nature Library series Gluttons and Libertines: Human Problems of Being Natural (1968) Random House A Jungle in the House: Essays in Natural and Unnatural History (1970) Walker and Company

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Marston Bates

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Marston Bates claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Marston Bates before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Marston Bates ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Marston Bates

In research: Marston Bates appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Marston Bates in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Marston Bates is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1906 births, 1974 deaths, 20th-century American zoologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Marston Bates outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Marston Bates in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Marston Bates means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Marston Bates matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Marston Bates?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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