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Charles Henry Turner

1867 – 1923

Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois, United States

Cincinnati-born zoologist, among the first African Americans to earn a biology doctorate (Chicago, 1907), whose experiments showed that insects such as ants and bees can learn and use memory.

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Macro photograph of a honey bee's head, USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
Credit: Sam Droege, USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, via Flickr. License: Public domain.

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Sources

  1. Giurfa et al., "Charles Henry Turner and the cognitive behavior of bees," Apidologie 52 (2021): 684–695 (Scholarly)
  2. BlackPast, "Charles Henry Turner (1867-1923)" (Reference)
  3. University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Entomology, "Celebrating Black Entomologists" (2021) (Primary source)

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