Charles W. Woodworth

Charles William Woodworth (April 28, 1865 – November 19, 1940) was an American entomologist.

[1] He spent four years at the University of Nanking, China, where he effected the practical control of the city's mosquitoes.

From 1886 to 1888 he studied at Harvard University under Hermann August Hagen, who, at the time, was the leading entomologist of the U.S.

[8] He also participated in the development of the Agricultural Experiment Station, now known as UC Davis, and is also considered the founder of the Entomology Department there.

Thomas Hunt Morgan's Nobel Prize biography says that Woodworth suggested to William E. Castle that Drosophila might be used for genetical work.

During his year there he effected a practical control of mosquitoes for the first time in that city's history.

His son, Dr. Charles E. Woodworth, also became an entomologist; he worked for the USDA ARS focusing on the wireworm and served as an entomologist with the Army in the Pacific during World War II with the rank of Major, commanding a unit which cleared swamps.

[18][19] He had many avocations including making telescopes,[20] analyzing chess positions, and researching his extended family's genealogy.

The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America selects a member of the society to win the C. W. Woodworth Award based on "outstanding accomplishments in entomology over at least the past 10 years.