Frank J. Radovsky

Frank Jay Radovsky (January 5, 1929 – October 21, 2010) was an American entomologist. He was especially interested in parasitic mites. He held the editor position of two journals: the Annual Review of Entomology and the Journal of Medical Entomology.

Early life, education, and military service Frank Jay Radovsky was born on January 5, 1929, in Fall River, Massachusetts as the youngest of twelve children. His father, David, had emigrated from Russia as a child and became a Harvard-educated lawyer. His mother, Minnie , was born in New York to Russian immigrants. Frank Radovsky was interested in the natural world from a young age; he collected insects, reptiles, and amphibians in his neighborhood and built terraria to study them. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder for a bachelor's in zoology, graduating in 1951. He held leadership positions within several scientific societies and organizations: he was president of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, on the board of directors of the Wau Ecology Institute, on the executive committee of the International Congress of Acarology, and also on the board of the Association of Systematics Collections.

Personal life and death While attending Berkeley, Radovsky met Irma in 1956. The couple married the following year. They had two daughters, Susan and Judith. He had a passion for stamp collecting, particularly stamps that depicted mammals. He also enjoyed reading the works of Shakespeare, Charles Darwin, Ernest Thompson Seton, C. S. Forester, and Patrick O'Brian. Radovsky died on October 21, 2010, at the age of 81 in Corvallis, Oregon.