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Article: Ebbe Nielson: a voice for the silent majority: Malcolm Robertson of CSIRO Entomology pays tribute to Dr Ebbe Nielson, director of the Australian National Insect Collection since 1990. (spectrum).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- April 1, 2001
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Ebbe Nielsen had a passion for life, a passion that drove him to be the most successful advocate globally for the science of systematics, especially insect taxonomy.
Thanks to his efforts, systematics, and the emerging discipline of biodiversity informatics, have become enshrined in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, instituted in March this year. The OECD initiative owes much to Nielsen's drive, vision and personal contact with politicians, bureaucrats and scientists worldwide.
Nielsen was born in Denmark in 1950. At the age of 14, a booklet by Langer on collecting Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), and Bishop Hoffmeyer's books on the ...