Edward Arthur Steinhaus
Edward Arthur Steinhaus was an American bacteriologist and pathologist who specialized in insect pathology particularly on the applications of microrganisms for the control of insect pests. He also served as the founding editor of the Annual Review of Entomology journal from 1955.
Steinhaus was born in Max, North Dakota to Alice Rinehart and Arthur Alfred. He studied in Faribault, Minnesota and worked with a printer to produce a private periodical. An interest in microbes was sparked off after reading Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunter. He joined North Dakota Agricultural College in 1932 with bacteriology as a major and then moved to Ohio State University, receiving a doctorate in 1939. He worked from 1940 in the US Public Health Service as a bacteriologist in the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. He joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1944 and taught insect pathology. He moved to the Irvine Campus after 1963 and served as Professor of Pathobiology and Dean of Biological Sciences.
Steinhaus married Mabry Clark, who was a bacteriologist at Ohio State University, and they had a daughter and a son. Steinhaus was a religious Congregationalist who saw no conflict between science and belief.
