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Ayla Kalkandelen - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Ayla Kalkandelen
- Ayla Kalkandelen (14 March 1939 – 28 April 2002) was a Turkish entomologist.
- Her specialty was in Auchenorrhyncha, a suborder of true bugs or insects order Homoptera.
- She described ten taxa and has five taxa named after her. Ayla Kalkandelen was born in Gaziantep on 14 March 1939.
- She had an elder brother named Nejat.
- She completed her primary and secondary education in her hometown.She graduated from the Department of Vineyard and horticulture production and rehabilitation in the Faculty of Agriculture at Ankara University in 1962.
- The same year, she was employed by the Research Institute for Agricultural Pest Control in Ankara.After attending a course at the Georgetown Language School, Washington D.C.
- in 1964, she studied at Clemson University, South Carolina on an American scholarship between 1965 and 1966, graduating with a Master's degree.During her stay in the United States, she was instructed in the taxonomy of Cicadellidae (leafhopper), a suborder of Homoptera, at Ohio State University in 1966 and National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
- in 1967.In November 1971, she received a PhD degree from the Department of Plant Protection at Ankara University for her thesis on Orta Anadolu'da Homoptera: Cicadellidae Familyasi Türlerinin Taksonomisi Üzerine Arastirmalar ("Research on the Taxonomy of the Homoptera part Cicadellidae Family in Central Anatolia").
- She was appointed associate professor at her alma mater in October 1995.Between 1986–1990, Kalkandelen was editor-in-chief of the Turkish "Plant Protection Bulletin".
- Four taxa were named after her by the Czech taxonomist J.
- Diabola and one by German H.
- Hoch.
- The "Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects" bestowed her one of its Service Award of 2002.Kalkandelen retired in 1997.
- She died on 28 April 2002.
