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Timothy Prout in his early years at UC Davis |
Timothy Prout before retirement |
Timothy G. Prout
June 14, 1923 - Jan. 5, 2009
Timothy Prout, emeritus professor at the UC Davis Department of Entomology, died Jan. 5, 2009 in his home after a short illness. He was 85.
A 34-year resident of Davis, Dr. Prout was born in Waterbury, Conn., to Curtis Prout and Edith MacPhail Prout on June 14, 1923, and grew up in Summit, N.J. During the World War II, he served in Italy as a member of the 10th Mountain Division.
He received his doctorate from Columbia University in zoology in 1954 and soon after joined the newly formed UC Riverside faculty, where he worked 20 years before moving to UC Davis in 1974 to join the genetics and evolution faculty. He retired in 1989 but continued to do research on population genetics in fruit flies long after his retirement.
Dr. Prout was well liked and respected by his many students. He spent several sabbatical years at Aarhus University in Denmark which became a second academic home; he received an honorary doctorate degree in 1997.
He enjoyed the outdoors: trout fishing, skiing and backpacking.
He is survived by Marjorie Lester Prout, his wife of 58 years, two children, Mary Prout and David Prout, and two grandchildren, Ellen Slatkin and Eric Hu.
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
