Internet, alt.obituaries consulté le 12-10-2005
Information trouvée : Karl von Vorse Krombein, a retired senior scientist and world-renowned entomologist
with the Smithsonian Institution, died September 6, 2005, in Fairfax, Virginia. He
worked for the Agriculture Department from 1941 until 1965, serving for almost 15
years as its chief of taxonomic investigations of hymenoptera, or wasps. In 1965,
he moved to the Smithsonian Institution as chairman of the entomology department,
a post he held until 1971. He became senior entomologist in 1971 and senior scientist
from 1980. He retired in 1993, but he kept an office in the Smithsonian and continued
to work full time until 1999. Dr. Krombein was born in Buffalo in 1913?