Jean-Georges Baer (12 February 1902N.N.: "Professeur Jean-Georges Baer, 1902-75", ''Environmental Conservation'', vol. 2 (1975), pp. 177–178. ISSN 0376-8929. – 21 February 1975Stunkard, Horace W.: "In memoriam: Jean-Georges Baer (1902-1975)", ''The Journal of Parasitology 61(5)'' (Oct. 1975), pp. 960–962. ISSN 0022-3395.) was a Swiss

parasitologist Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it ...

and environmentalist. Born in England, he studied in Neuchâtel,

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, and in

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, where he worked with Charles Joyeux. His book "Ecology of animal parasites" (1951) is considered a classic in the field.Aeschlimann, A.; Piekarski, G.: "Jean Georges Baer 1902–1975", ''Parasitology Research 46(4)'', Springer 1975, pp. 243–244. ISSN 0932-0113. Baer published more than 250 articles, among them fundamental work on Temnocephalida (a kind of flatworm parasite) and on

tapeworm Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria). Larvae have six posterior hooks on the scolex (head), in contrast to the ten-hooked Cesto ...

s.N.N.:
Baer, Jean Georges
'. URL retrieved 2011-01-24. Baer was a member of several scientific societies, vice president of the International Union of Biological Societies, and from 1958 to 1963 president of the

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(IUCN).Hesselink, Frits; Čeřovský, Jan:
Learning to Change the Future
'', IUCN 2008, p. 22. URL retrieved 2011-01-24. Baer's wood mouse (''Hylomyscus baeri'') is named in his honour.

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