Jean Ruth Adams

Jean Ruth Adams (1928 to 2004) was an American entomologist who specialised in electron microscopy of insect pathogens, particularly viruses. Her doctoral dissertation, completed at Rutgers University in 1961, dealt with the location and histology of the contact chemoreceptors of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. She later wrote the book Insect Potpourri: Adventures in Entomology, published by Sandhill Crane Press in 1992, and with Jean-Robert Bonami she produced the Atlas of Invertebrate Viruses, published by CRC Press in 2018 after her death. Her work links microscopy of insect tissue with the study of the viruses that infect insects. The sources read give no further detail on her career or the institutions where she worked.