Cornelius "Neal" Albert Weber (December 14, 1908, Towner, North Dakota – January 21, 2001) was an internationally known American myrmecologist,[1] specializing in the fungus-growing ants (the attines).
[4] Weber participated in several scientific expeditions in the 1930s: in the West Indies from 1933 to 1936 (concentrating on Trinidad from 1934 to 1936), the Orinoco Delta in 1935, British Guiana in 1936, Barro Colorado Island and Colombia in 1938, and Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya in 1939.
[3] In the late 1940s and early 1950s he participated in several American Museum of Natural History expeditions: in central Africa in 1948, in the Middle East in 1950 and in 1952, and in tropical America in 1954.
[1] He corresponded with many notable entomologists, including Joseph Charles Bequaert, Horace Donisthorpe, Alfred E. Emerson, Caryl Parker Haskins, William M. Mann, Mary Talbot, George C. Wheeler, and William Morton Wheeler.
[10] His book Gardening Ants, the Attines won the 1973 John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Society.