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.
Eugene K. Balon | |
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| Born | 1 August 1930 |
| Died | 4 September 2013 (aged 83) Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | Charles University, Prague |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology, ichthyology |
| Institutions | Slovak Academy of Sciences University of Guelph |
Biography
editBalon 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
edit- Balon, E. K. (1979). "The theory of saltation and its application in the ontogeny of fishes: steps and thresholds". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 4 (2): 97–101.
- ———— (2001). "Saltatory Ontogeny and the Life-History Model: Neglected Processes and Patterns of Evolution". Journal of Bioeconomics. 3 (1): 1–26.
- ———— (2002). "Epigenetic Processes, when Natura Non Facit Saltum Becomes a Myth, and Alternative Ontogenies a Mechanism of Evolution". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 65 (1): 1–35.
- ———— (2004). "Evolution by epigenesis: Farewell to Darwinism, Neo-and Otherwise". Rivista di Biologia-Biology Forum. 97: 269–312.
References
edit- ^ Elektronický biografický slovník Těšínského Slezska[permanent dead link]
- ^ Kaszper, Kazimierz. Dysydent mimo woli. Zwrot 9/2007, 42.-44.
- ^ Živa – časopis pro biologickou práci, obsah čísla XLVII [LXXXV] (1999), No. 4 – in the Czech publications he writes under the name Evžen K. Balon
- ^ Hanák, V.: Profesor Evžen Balon – zoolog a cestovatel[permanent dead link] – záznam v katalogu Moravskoslezské vědecké knihovny v Ostravě
- ^ Obituary at LifeNews.ca
Further reading
edit- 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