What is Karl Maramorosch?
[[File:Maramorosch Karl.jpg|thumb|Karl Maramorosch, 2009]] '''Karl Maramorosch''' (January 16, 1915 &ndash; May 9, 2016<ref>[http://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2015/01/celebrating-100-years-karl-maramorosch/ Rutgers: Celebrating 100 Years: Karl Maramorosch]</ref><!-- see editorial subtitle edit -->) was an [[Austria]]n-born [[Americans|American]] [[virologist]], [[entomologist]] and [[plant pathologist]]. He was born in [[Vienna]], and of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>[http://bti.cornell.edu/news/distinguished-former-bti-faculty-member-karl-maramorosch-turns-100/ bti.cornell.edu]</ref> He got his [[Ph.D.]] at [[Columbia University]]. He made research on [[virus]]es, [[mycoplasmas]], [[rickettsiae]] and other [[micro-organisms]] and their transmission to [[plants]] through [[insect]] in many parts of the world. He was the co-author of a textbook on techniques in virology. He was the author of numerous papers on the biology and ecology of plant viruses, their hosts and vectors. He received the [[Wolf Prize in Agriculture]] in 1980 for his work to the study of crop [[pathogen]]s. Maramorosch died in [[Ithaca, New York]] on May 9, 2016, aged 101. ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maramorosch, Karl}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:American botanists]] [[Category:American centenarians]] [[Category:Austrian Jews]] [[Category:Columbia University alumni]] [[Category:Jewish American academics]] [[Category:Jewish American scientists]] [[Category:Jewish centenarians]] [[Category:Jewish Wolf Prize winners]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Polish Jews]] [[Category:Refugees from Nazism]] [[Category:Scientists from Vienna]] [[Category:American virologists]] [[Category:Educators from New York City]] [[Category:American entomologists]] [[Category:Pathologists]] {{US-bio-stub}}