George Carlos Wheeler (1897–1991) was an entomologist who specialized in the study of ants.
He attended the Rice Institute in Texas, U.S.A., and worked under Julian Sorell Huxley and Hermann J. Muller.
He received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1918, after which he attended the Bussey Institution of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Afterwards, he joined the University of North Dakota, where he continued to work throughout his career, holding such positions as Professor of Biology, Head of the Department of Biology, and University Professor.
[1] Wheeler began studying ants at the Barro Colorado Island research station in the Panama Canal in 1924, having been urged to go to the tropics by William Morton Wheeler, who had mentored him at Harvard together with Charles Thomas Brues.