Eugene K. Balon

Eugene Kornel Balon (Polish: Eugeniusz Kornel Bałon,[1][2] Czech: Evžen Kornel Balon[3][4]) (1 August 1930 - 4 September 2013)[5] was a Polish Canadian and Czech zoologist and ichthyologist.

Eugene K. Balon
Born(1930-08-01)1 August 1930
Orlová, Czechoslovakia
Died4 September 2013(2013-09-04) (aged 83)
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
NationalityPolish
Alma materCharles University, Prague
Scientific career
FieldsZoology, Ichthyology
InstitutionsSlovak Academy of Sciences
University of Guelph

Biography

He went to the Polish High School in Orlová (Orłowa), Zaolzie where he took his A levels in 1949. He graduated from the Charles University in Prague. In the years 1953 - 1967 he worked in the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava where he studied the endemic fauna of Danube. From 1967 to 1967 he was an UN expert in Zambia. After 1976, he was a teacher on the University of Guelph.

Two species of fishes were named after him: Balon's ruffe (Gymnocephalus baloni) and Tilapia baloni.

Publications
  • Balon, EK, 1979. The theory of saltation and its application in the ontogeny of fishes: steps and thresholds. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 1979, Volume 4, Number 2, Pages 97–101. Online
  • Balon, EK, 2001. Saltatory Ontogeny and the Life-History Model: Neglected Processes and Patterns of Evolution. Journal of Bioeconomics, 2001, Volume 3, Number 1, Pages 1–26. Online
  • Balon, EK, 2002. Epigenetic Processes, when Natura Non Facit Saltum Becomes a Myth, and Alternative Ontogenies a Mechanism of Evolution Environmental Biology of Fishes. Volume 65, Number 1, Pages 1–35. Online
  • Balon, EK, 2004. Evolution by epigenesis: Farewell to Darwinism, Neo-and Otherwise. Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum 97: 269-312. Online

Further reading
  1. Bałon, Eugeniusz in: "Elektroniczny Słownik Biograficzny Śląska Cieszyńskiego" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2010-08-05./"Elektronický biografický slovník Těšínského Slezska" (in Czech). Archived from the original on 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
  2. "Brief Curriculum Vitae, Lectures, and Projects: Balon, Eugene K." Archived from the original on 2007-06-28. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
  3. Kazimierz Kaszper. "Dysydent mimo woli". Zwrot. 9/2007. pp. 42–44.
  4. Obituary at LifeNews.ca

References
  1. Elektronický biografický slovník Těšínského Slezska
  2. Kaszper, Kazimierz. Dysydent mimo woli. Zwrot 9/2007, 42.-44.
  3. Živa – časopis pro biologickou práci, obsah čísla XLVII [LXXXV] (1999), No. 4 – in the Czech publications he writes under the name Evžen K. Balon
  4. Hanák, V.: Profesor Evžen Balon – zoolog a cestovatel – záznam v katalogu Moravskoslezské vědecké knihovny v Ostravě
  5. Obituary at LifeNews.ca
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