George Eickwort

George Campbell Eickwort (8 June 1940 – 11 July 1994) was an American entomologist and a professor at Cornell University.

He subsequently joined Cornell University as an assistant professor.

In a court case relating to an aircrash, the cause was claimed to be due to the nest of a leaf-cutter bee Ashmeadiella (Megachilidae).

Eickwort provided evidence during the hearing that demonstrated that the nest was built in the fuel-line of the aircraft long after the crash.

A genus of fossil halictids Eickwortapis is named in his honour.