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Lonnie Standifer
1926–1996
United States
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Lonnie Nathaniel Standifer (1926–1996) was an entomologist born in Itasca, Texas. An expert in honey bee physiology and nutrition, in 1970 he became the first African-American scientist to be appointed director of the USDA's Carl Hayden Bee Research Center.
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