Eugene K. Balon

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Eugene K. Balon
Born(1930-08-01)1 August 1930
Orlová, Czechoslovakia
Died4 September 2013(2013-09-04) (aged 83)
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
NationalityPolish
Alma materCharles University, Prague
Scientific career
FieldsZoology, ichthyology
InstitutionsSlovak Academy of Sciences
University of Guelph

Eugene Kornel Balon (Polish: Eugeniusz Kornel Bałon,[1][2] Czech: Evžen Kornel Balon;[3][4] 1 August 1930 – 4 September 2013)[5] was a Polish Canadian and Czech zoologist and ichthyologist.

Biography

Balon was born on 1 August 1930 in Orlová in Czechoslovakia. He went to the Polish High School in Orlová, where he took his A levels in 1949. From 1953 to 1967 he worked in the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava where he studied the endemic fauna of Danube. From 1967 to 1967 he was a United Nations expert in Zambia. After 1976, he was a teacher on the University of Guelph. He died on 4 September 2013 in Guelph, at the age of 83.

Two species of fishes were named after him: Balon's ruffe (Gymnocephalus baloni) and Tilapia baloni.

Publications

References

  1. ^ Elektronický biografický slovník Těšínského Slezska[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Kaszper, Kazimierz. Dysydent mimo woli. Zwrot 9/2007, 42.-44.
  3. ^ Živa – časopis pro biologickou práci, obsah čísla XLVII [LXXXV] (1999), No. 4 – in the Czech publications he writes under the name Evžen K. Balon
  4. ^ Hanák, V.: Profesor Evžen Balon – zoolog a cestovatel[permanent dead link] – záznam v katalogu Moravskoslezské vědecké knihovny v Ostravě
  5. ^ Obituary at LifeNews.ca

Further reading

  • Bałon, Eugeniusz in: "Elektroniczny Słownik Biograficzny Śląska Cieszyńskiego" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2010-08-05./"Elektronický biografický slovník Těšínského Slezska" (in Czech). Archived from the original on 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
  • "Brief Curriculum Vitae, Lectures, and Projects: Balon, Eugene K." Archived from the original on 2007-06-28. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
  • Kazimierz Kaszper. "Dysydent mimo woli". Zwrot. Vol. 9/2007. pp. 42–44.
  • Obituary at LifeNews.ca
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