Raymond Specht

Raymond Louis Specht AO (19 Yuli 1924 - 13 Fabrairu 2021) masanin kimiyyar halittu ne na tsirrai na Australiya, mai kare muhalli kuma malami, wanda ya shiga cikin balaguron kimiyya na Arnhem Land na 1948.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Raymond Louis Specht a 1924 a Adelaide, Kudancin Australia  ga Louis da Harriet Specht. Ya halarci Makarantar Firamare ta Richmond da makarantar sakandare ta Adelaide,  ya kammala makarantar sakandare a matsayin dux a shekarar 1941. Specht ya yi niyyar bin koyarwa a matsayin aiki. A shekara ta 1942 ya kasance malamin dalibi a fannin kimiyyar lissafi, ilmin sunadarai da lissafi a makarantar sakandare ta Riverton.

Bayan ya halarci ɗan gajeren darasi a koyarwa a Jami'ar Adelaide, ya shiga Kwalejin Malamai ta Adelaide yana karatun ilmin halitta a 1943. Ya haɗu da wannan tare da karatu a Jami'ar Adelaide, kuma daga ƙarshe ya ɗauki BSc a cikin botany da zoology a 1945 kafin ya ɗauki girmamawa na farko a cikin ilimin muhalli a cikin shuke-shuke a 1946. 

 Binciken Kimiyya na Arnhem Land 
An gayyaci Specht don shiga National Geographic Society da Smithsonian Institution da ke daukar nauyin Arnhem Land Scientific Expedition a 1946. Bayan kammala aikin girmamawa shi da sauran mambobi 15 na kungiyar sun tashi daga Adelaide a watan Maris na shekara ta 1948. A matsayinsa na masanin tsire-tsire na kungiyar, Specht zai shafe watanni 8 tare da tawagar, yana tattara tan 25 na samfurori. Bayan tafiyar ta ƙare, Specht da samfurori sun tashi zuwa Brisbane a 1949 inda aka gano kayan da aka tattara kuma aka shirya don rarraba a duniya. An aika kayan aiki zuwa herbaria shida a cikin Ostiraliya, zuwa Kew a Ingila, Rijksmuseum a Leiden, Smithsonian Institution da Arnold Arboretum a Amurka.

Specht ya koma Adelaide kuma ya yi aiki a hankali kan yin rikodin kayan da aka dawo da su daga balaguron a cikin shekaru 14 masu zuwa. Sakamakon wannan zai zama Volume 3 na Expedition, Botany da muhalli na shuka (1958), wanda aka shirya tare da Charles P. Mountford. Ya kuma shirya Volume 4 mai taken Zoology (1964).[1]

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Rukuni:Matattun 2021
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1924