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Carl Rettenmeyer : ウィキペディア英語版 | Carl Rettenmeyer
Carl W. Rettenmeyer (February 10, 1931 - April 9, 2009) was an American biologist who specialised in army ants. He was born in Meriden, Connecticut and later attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He first became interested in army ants when he visited Panama as an undergraduate and then returned there as a postgraduate. Although he studied many aspects of army ant biology, he particularly focused on the animals associated with the ants and especially mites which live on the ants. He was well known for his photography of army ants, with his photographs appearing in over 100 publications and he used his video footage to create two DVDs. He taught at the University of Kansas from 1960 until 1971 and then at the University of Connecticut until his retirement in 1996, after being diagnosed with Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia. After his death in 2009, a set of papers on army ants were published in ''Insectes Sociaux'' in memory of his work. ==Personal life== Rettenmeyer was born in Meriden, Connecticut, to his parents Frederick and Gertrude; he had one sister.〔 He first met his wife Marian at a summer school at the University of New Hampshire in 1951 and married her in 1955. She had been interested in insects from an early age and Rettenmeyer "knew she was a woman I had to keep track of"; she would become his lifelong assistant. Together they had a son and a daughter.〔 In 1996 he was diagnosed with Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, a form of lymphoma and expected to die within a few years.〔 Although he retired the same year, a new drug developed soon after his diagnosis kept the disease in check, allowing him to continue to work, despite often having to use a wheelchair due to his frailty.〔 He continued to correspond with other army ant researchers with enthusiasm after retiring.
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