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Hahn William Capps

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Hahn William Capps
Born1903
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Kansas
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUnited States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology
Plant Quarantine

Hahn William Capps (born 1903) is an American entomologist.

Biography

Capps was born in 1903. In 1929, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas. After graduation in 1930, he joined the United States Department of Agriculture, and the same year became plant quarantine inspector for the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. In 1938, he became an assistant entomologist, and by 1940 he was made to be an entomologist. He kept the position till he retired in 1964. His studied larval and adult stages of Lepidoptera.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Biography". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved April 20, 2012.

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