Bernard C. Nelson  (1934-1990)

Bernard Clinton Nelson 2 June, 1934 - 18 February, 1990 Bernard "Bernie" Nelson was born in Cass Lake, Cass County, Minnesota, and died in Concord, Contra Costa County, California, at the age of 55 after a protracted illness. He attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, receiving his B.S. in 1956. He then moved to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he earned a M. S. in 1960. He subsequently was awarded the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967 with a major in Parasitology. His dissertation was titled A revision of the New World species of Ricinus (Mallophaga) on Passeriformes (Aves). In 1969 Dr. Nelson was awarded a National Institutes of Health Fellowship and under it studied the ecology of bird lice for the next two years with Murray at the McMaster Animal Health Laboratory in New South Wales, Australia. Upon his return to the United States, he joined the California Department of Health Services, Environmental Management Branch, as a Parasitologist. He became the head of the Zoonoses Unit in 1978, where he pursued a distinguished and productive career in the control and prevention of plague and other vector-borne diseases until he became ill. The above information was taken, in part, from an obituary by A. M. Barnes, published in Flea News. 40: 351 (1990). http://www.phthiraptera.org/phthirapterists/nelson/nelson.htm

Affiliation	California Department of Health Services, U.C. Berkeley (PhD, 1967)
Label Abbreviation	B.C. Nelson
Other Names	B.C. Nelson

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