In his field of mammalogy Charles Long wrote the first definitive, comprehensive treatise on wild mammals of the interesting state of Wyoming
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ, October 22, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Charles Long, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Long celebrates many years of experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With nearly 40 years of professional experience, Dr. Long has been recognized as professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point since 1996. Prior to his retirement, he was a professor at the school from 1973 to 1996, having been an associate professor from 1968 to 1973 and an assistant professor of biology from 1966 to 1968. Earlier in his career, Dr. Long held a number of positions with the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, including assistant professor from 1965 to 1966, faculty fellow in 1964, and instructor from 1963 to 1965.
Dr. Long began his career as a student at Pittsburg State University, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in 1957 and a Master of Science in 1958 while working as a graduate fellow. He then joined the University of Washington, completing postgraduate work in 1960. Dr. Long subsequently studied at the University of Kansas, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in 1963, while also serving the school as a research assistant and teaching assistant.
Dr. Charles Long's range of subject materials is remarkable. In his field of mammalogy he wrote the first definitive, comprehensive treatise on wild mammals of the interesting state of Wyoming (1965), in which his concepts of zoogeography were similar to those of the founder of zoogeography Darwin. Long described effects in evolution and distribution of mammals due to warm interglacial climate and frigid glaciation, permitting some accurate rates of evolution to be determined. A rare example of macromutation was described showing sudden adaptation by inverting the cheek pouches, the dry pockets conserving body water in small mammals needed in dry habitats, in kangaroo rats and pocket gophers. In 1981, he and Carl Killingsley published a treatise on all the badgers in the world. In 2008, his 40 year old life work on Wild Mammals of Wisconsin was published. Again glaciations was important especially for huge Pleistocene mammals, but the distributions were more delineated by plant communities. In mathematical analysis of the physiology of mammalian red blood cells, which are unique in several enucleate forms, he showed the evolution of this adaptive form for oxygen transport. As a worker in an engineering society (WSEAS) his works ranged from red cells to origin of vertebrate flight and even with Dr. Sia Sohrab providing a solution to the unknown coefficient of the discoverer Olinto de Pretto of Italy, who first wrote the famous equation E = mc2. And he got it best. The coefficient proved to enhance the formula by a universal gas coefficient and Olinto deserved the credit for this famous equation being more accurate and sooner than Albert Einstein's. In addition they clarified why the speed of light C was squared. In the last few years Dr. Long compiled 214 or more poems written over sixty years, since 1957 until 2017 (Poetry of Charles Alan Long, 2017), which stands as an interesting analogy to the American poetry of Walt Whitman from the time of the Civil War. Both poets subscribed closely to the principles of the great transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
Throughout his career, Dr. Long has been recognized for his achievements, including having been named an Outstanding Scholar by the University of Wisconsin. The recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Pittsburg State University, he also received the Pucci Faculty Award from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and the Festschrift Honorary 70th Birthday from the National Science and Biomathematical Society. A grantee of the National Science Foundation, the American Alliance of Museums, and the Department of the Interior, he had the mammal collection renamed in his honor as the Charles A. Long Mammal Research Collection. Dr. Long has been featured in numerous honors publications, including multiple editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education and Who's Who in the Midwest.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Long has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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