Amelia Tonon

Amelia Tonon (1899–1961) was an Italian entomologist who researched silkworms, their eggs and crossbreeding them. She also patented a technique to stain embryos.

Life and work

Amelia Tonon was born in Trieste on 23 March 1899 (Trieste is now part of Italy, but at the time, the city was part of the Habsburg monarchy). As a teenager, she moved to Padua, Italy, where she graduated from the University of Padua in natural sciences. or 1961 on 21 August, in Padua.

Selected works

Tonon, A. (1925) (with G. Teodoro) Tecnica per lo studio microscopico del Bombyx mori, (Technique for the microscopic study of Bombyx mori) «Bollettino di Sericoltura», A. XXXII, n. 9. Anomalie embrionali nei lepidotteri Bombyx mori, «Atti e memorie della Regia Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Padova», 1924, vol. L. Tonon, A. (1926). Variabilità dei caratteri embriologici nell'uovo di Filugello durante la diapausa. (Variability of embryological characters in the Silkworm egg during diapause). Grafiche Carlo Ferrari.