Joseph H. Wales

Joseph Howe Wales (born 1907; died August 21, 2002 in Corvallis, Oregon) was an American ichthyologist. In 1930 he graduated to Bachelor of Arts and in 1932 to Master of Arts at the Stanford University. In 1934 he received his PhD. In 1930 he wrote the scientific description to the previously unrecognized Devil's Hole pupfish. [Wales, J.H. 1930. Biometrical studies of some races of cyprinodont fishes from the Death Valley region, with description of Cyprinodon diabolis, n. sp. Copeia 1930:61-70. ] He later worked as biological surveyor at the Bureau of Fish Conservation, California Division of Fish and Game in San Francisco, CaliforniaCalifornia Fish and Game Volume 29, San Francisco, 1942] , as District fishereies biologist in Mount Shasta, for the California Trout Investigation and at the California fish hatcheries. From 1959 to 1979 he served as Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology and pathologist at the Oregon State University, where he analyzed liver cancer in rainbow trouts.

Works (selected)

*1932: Life History of the Blue Rockfish Sebastodes Mystinus
*1959: Trout of California
*1972: Essential Fatty Acids in the Diet of Rainbow Trout (Salmo Gairdneri): Physiological Symptons of EFA Deficiency (w/ J D Castell, R O Sinnhuber, and D J Lee)
*1983: Microscopic Anatomy of Salmonids (with William T. Yasutake)
*cite journal|last=Sinnhuber|first=RO|coauthors=Hendricks JD, Wales JH, Putnam GB.|date=1978 Sep 29|title=Neoplasms in rainbow trout, a sensitive animal model for environmental carcinogenesis|journal=Ann N Y Acad Sci|volume=298|pages=389-408|pmid=280189|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/280189 (cited by 73)
*cite journal|last=Warren|first=CE |coauthors=JH Wales, GE Davis, P Doudoroff|date=1964|title=Trout production in an experimental stream enriched with sucrose|journal=Journal of Wildlife Management (cited by 57)
*cite journal|last=Wales|first=JH |date=1955|title=Three protozoan diseases of trout in California|journal=California Fish and Game (cited by 46)

References

External links

* [http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2003/janfeb/classnotes/obituaries.html Stanford Magazine obituaries]