Joseph Conrad Chamberlin

{{Infobox scientist | name = Joseph Conrad Chamberlin | image = Joseph Conrad Chamberlin.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1898|12|23|mf=y}} | birth_place = Salt Lake City | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|7|17|1898|12|23|mf=y}} | death_place = Hillsboro, Oregon | residence = | field = Arachnology | work_institutions = United States Department of Agriculture | alma_mater = Stanford University | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Pseudoscorpion taxonomy | author_abbrev_bot = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }} '''Joseph Conrad Chamberlin''' (December 23, 1898 – July 17, 1962) was an American arachnologist who studied mainly pseudoscorpions. A native of Utah, he studied primarily at Stanford University while working most of his career in Oregon for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Several species are named in his honor.

His zoological author abbreviation is '''J.C.Chamberlin'''.<ref name="gbif">{{Cite web |title=''Parachernes'' J.C.Chamberlin, 1931 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2127437 |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life== Chamberlin was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Ole Chamberlin and Mary Ethel (Conrad) Chamberlin.<ref name=bio>Judson, Mark & Chamberlin, David C. (1998): [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n3/JoA_v26_p411.pdf Joseph C. Chamberlin 1898-1962.] ''The Journal of Arachnology'' '''26'''(3): 411-418.</ref> His parents were descended from early Mormon pioneer families, and he was their first child. Joseph's father died in 1911, leaving the remaining five person family near poverty. After one year of high school, he left school in 1914 to work in order to support the family.<ref name=bio/> In October 1918, Joseph was drafted into the United States Army, but fell ill with the Spanish flu pandemic and never served in World War I.<ref name=bio/>

After recovering, Chamberlin began college at the University of Utah when Congress allocated funding for veterans. Originally a one-year program, Congress expanded it to cover four years of school and Chamberlin transferred to Stanford University upon the recommendation of his uncle, Ralph Vary Chamberlin.<ref name=bio/> He was accepted as a special case, and studied entomology in the Zoology Department. His tutor at Stanford was Gordon Floyd Ferris, an internationally reputed entomologist at the time. Chamberlin graduated in 1923 with a BA degree, and in 1924 with a master's degree.<ref name=bio/>

==Career== Chamberlin began teaching after college at San Jose State University before earning a PhD from Stanford in 1929.<ref name=bio/> That year, he began working for the United States Department of Agriculture. His first assignment with the department was in Idaho, where he worked until transferring to Modesto, California, in 1935. In 1936, he moved to Oregon, where he worked at a field station in Corvallis.<ref name=bio/> In 1939, Chamberlin transferred to the Forest Grove station where he remained until 1961. He died in Hillsboro, Oregon.<ref name=bio/>

Two genus-group names and eleven species have been named after him.<ref name=preface>Harvey, Mark S. & Judson, Mark (1998): [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n3/JoA_v26_p409.pdf A Tribute to Joseph C. Chamberlin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.] Preface. ''The Journal of Arachnology'' '''26'''(3): 409-410.</ref> He would describe several species while working with his uncle. Joseph married Clara Hya Gladstone in 1923 and they had 5 children. They divorced and he remarried Charlotte May in 1944, 6 years after his divorce.

==Eponymous taxa== ===Pseudoscorpions=== The following pseudoscorpion taxa (species, genera, or subgenera) have been named for Chamberlin.<ref name=preface/> * ''Apocheiridium chamberlini'' Godfrey 1927 * ''Fissilicreagris chamberlini'' (Beier 1931) * ''Afrosternophorus chamberlini'' (Redikorzev 1938) * ''Haploditha chamberlinorum'' Caporiacco 1951* * ''Kleptochthonius (Chamberlinochthonius)'' Vachon 1952 * ''Pararoncus chamberlini'' (Morikawa 1957) * ''Larca chamberlini'' Benedict & Malcolm 1978 * ''Cheiridium chamberlini'' Dumitresco & Orghidan 1981 * ''Chthonius chamberlini'' (Leclerc 1983) * ''Chamberlinarius'' Heurtault 1990 * ''Hya chamberlini'' Harvey 1993 * ''Tyrannochthonius chamberlini'' Muchmore 1996 * ''Anysrius chamberlini'' Harvey 1998 * ''Rhopalochernes chamberlini'' Heurtault 1998

:<nowiki>*</nowiki>Named for J. Chamberlin and R.V. Chamberlin

===Other taxa=== Besides pseudoscorpions, other taxa named for Chamberlin include:<ref name=bio/> *''Bulimulus chamberlini'' Hanna (Gastropoda) *''Centrioptera chamberlini'' Blaisdell (Tenebrionidae) *''Euagrus josephus'' R.V. Chamberlin (Araneae, Dipluridae) *''Euphorbia chamberlini'' I.M.Johnston (''Euphorbia'') *''Ticida chamberlini'' Van Duzee (Hemiptera, Dictyopharidae) *''Triphora chamberlini'' F. Baker, 1926 (Gastropoda, Triphoridae)<ref name=BEMON>{{cite web|author=Hans G. Hansson|date=1997-11-14|url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html|title=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names (BEMON)|publisher=Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Göteborg University|access-date=2015-04-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032259/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== See also == * William Henry Chamberlin (philosopher) - another uncle, brother of Ralph

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_tocs/JOA_contents_v26n3.html A Tribute to Joseph C. Chamberlin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407024450/http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_tocs/JOA_contents_v26n3.html |date=2016-04-07 }} ''The Journal of Arachnology'' '''26'''(3): 409–459.

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