SOT member Fumio Matsumura passed away on December 6, 2012. He was a distinguished professor of environmental toxicology and entomology at the University of California, Davis, (UC Davis) and known internationally as "one of the masters of insect toxicology." He was a member of the Comparative and Veterinary Specialty Section.
He joined the UC Davis faculty in 1987 and was the former director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, and wrote the classic textbook, Toxicology of Insects. He was born in Japan in 1934 and received his bachelor's degree in agricultural biology in 1957 from the University of Tokyo; his master's degree in entomology in 1959 from the University of Alberta; and his doctorate in entomology from the University of Western Ontario.
A tribute to the many and diverse accomplishments of Dr. Matsumara is posted on the UC Davis website.