Dr. BARNABÁS NAGY (1921–2020): born 100 years ago, died one year ago

Abstract

Dr. BARNABÁS NAGY passed away on 27 June 2020 at the age of 99, and now, a year later we commemorate the 100 th anniversary of his birth. His long and successful scientific career covered various fields of agro-zoology and orthopterology. At his main workplace, the Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked for more than six decades, he dealt with several agro-entomological topics focusing on a variety of pest species of different insect orders as well as with the general approach of the pest management. Among other research topics he participated in the first attempts of the introduction of radiobiological methods into pest control, and he was one of the first researchers who published the concept of ecological plant protection as early as in 1957, decades before its wide acceptance. His contribution to the Central European orthopterology is also considerable, covering the fields of Orthoptera faunistical exploration of the territory of Hungary and the Carpatho-Pannonian region, the nature conservation and the ecology of grasshoppers. During his long career he published 241 scientific papers, books and book chapters and 81 popular scientific publications among others.