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Sir James William Longman Beament (17 November 1921 — 10 March 2005) was a British scientist who studied insect physiology and psychoacoustics. He has been described as “an international authority” on “the structure and waterproofing of insect eggs”. ==Early life and education== Beament was born on 17 November 1921 at Ashlands Farm near the Somerset town of Crewkerne, the only child of Tom and Elisabeth Beament (née Munden). The farm had been in the family since at least 1670, and probably since 1419. As a boy, Beament had a great love of music. His mother has been quoted as saying that he “would wait for the Salvation Army band on Sundays, 'like a cat waiting for the fishmonger'”. she said. He was a scholarship student at Crewkerne Grammar School beginning in 1931. Winning an Exhibition to read Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at Queens' College, Cambridge, Beament went up in 1940. He studied under Alexander Wood, whose lectures and writings about the physics of sound led to a lifelong interest in acoustics. After having his first exposure to the work of classical composers, Beament taught himself to read music. He also founded Queens’ College’s amateur dramatic society, the Bats. It was wartime, and Beament was obliged to join the 8th Cambridge Home Guard. On the suggestion of C.P. Snow, he devoted his third year at Cambridge to zoology, with a focus on insects. He received a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge in 1943, earning a First. He then proceeded to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (later the London School of Tropical Medicine, LSTM), where an older colleague, Vincent Wigglesworth, “told him that more people had died in the First World War from insect-borne diseases than had been killed in action” and that his assignment would be “to find out how to permeate insect skins”, which were covered in a thin layer of wax. “Wigglesworth stimulated () interest in the wetting and waterproofing properties of the insect integument or cuticle, a topic that was to be a dominant theme in his scientific career”, according to one source. Beament's research into this question led to five major scientific publications in which he showed how poisons could be introduced into insects. He also worked with the head of the LSTM, P. A. Buxton, on lice, which played a major role in transmitting typhus on the Eastern front. In addition, he played a role in DDT experiments that confirmed the ability of DDT to kill lice, and that helped prevent a typhus epidemic in Naples in 1944. Since Beament's and Wigglesworth’s research required large numbers of lice, Beament, in order to keep them alive, “went around with aluminium tins tucked inside his socks 16 hours a day with the lice feeding off himself which just about kept up with the experimental demand”.〔 When Wigglesworth moved to Cambridge to become a Reader in Entomology and to run the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Unit of Insect Physiology, Beament accepted an invitation to join him there while continuing to work in London on his Ph.D. on insect eggs. He received the Ph.D. in 1946. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Beament」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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