Frederick A. Shannon
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Frederick A. Shannon (1921 - 1965) was a U.S. herpetologist and medical doctor.
He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 1939 he moved to Champaign, Illinois and began studying zoology at the University of Illinois, where he got a B.A. in zoology in 1943. He then started studying medicine and got an M.D. in 1947. He practiced for one year at the St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona before going back to Illinois for some post-graduate herpetology work. In 1949 he moved to Wickenburg, Arizona. 1951 - 1953 he was sent as a lieutenant to Korea, where he still found opportunities to collect many reptile specimen. Back in the U.S., he published many articles on poisonous snake bites (venomology) and herpetology. From 1956 on, he collected mainly in Mexico.
He died 1965 of the bite of a Mojave Rattlesnake he had attempted to catch.