Jean-Georges Baer (12 February 1902N.N.: "Professeur Jean-Georges Baer, 1902-75", Environmental Conservation, vol. 2 (1975), pp. 177–178. ISSN 0376-8929. – 21 February 1975Stunkard, Horace W.: "In memoriam: Jean-Georges Baer (1902-1975)", The Journal of Parasitology 61(5) (Oct. 1975), pp. 960–962. ISSN 0022-3395.) was a Swiss parasitologist and environmentalist.
Born in England, he studied in Neuchâtel, Geneva, and in Paris, where he worked with Charles Joyeux. His book "Ecology of animal parasites" (1951) is considered a classic in the field.Aeschlimann, A.; Piekarski, G.: "Jean Georges Baer 1902–1975", Parasitology Research 46(4), Springer 1975, pp. 243–244. ISSN 0932-0113. Baer published more than 250 articles, among them fundamental work on Temnocephalida (a kind of flatworm parasite) and on tapeworms.N.N.: Baer, Jean Georges. URL retrieved 2011-01-24.
Baer was a member of several scientific societies, vice president of the International Union of Biological Societies, and from 1958 to 1963 president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).Hesselink, Frits; Čeřovský, Jan: Learning to Change the Future , IUCN 2008, p. 22. URL retrieved 2011-01-24.
Baer's wood mouse (Hylomyscus baeri) is named in his honour.
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