Edith Grace White Explained
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| Birth Date: | 16 May 1890 |
| Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Fields: | Zoology |
| Workplaces: | - Wilson College
- American Museum of Natural History
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| Alma Mater: | - Mount Holyoke College (AB)
- Columbia University (AM, PhD)
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Edith Grace White (May 16, 1890 – December 1, 1975) was an American zoologist known for her studies of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). She was a professor of biology at Wilson College, and was a research associate of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Education and career
White was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1890.[1] [2] She earned a bachelor's degree at Mount Holyoke College. She went on to Columbia University for her graduate education, receiving an AM in 1913, and a PhD in 1918.[3] Her thesis was titled The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus.[2]
After a short time in positions at Heidelberg College and Shorter College, White moved to Wilson College in 1923, where she worked as a professor until 1958. She also continued to do research at the American Museum of Natural History, where she had a position as research associate from the mid-1930s until 1947.[4]
White published widely used textbooks on genetics and on general biology.
White died on December 1, 1975, in a nursing home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Books
- Book: White, Edith Grace. A textbook of general biology. 3rd. C.V. Mosby Company. St. Louis. 1946. 1st ed. (1933) and 2nd ed. (1937) with same publisher.[5]
- Book: White, Edith Grace. Genetics. 2nd. Vantage Press. New York. 1962. Revised edition of Principles of Genetics, published by C.V. Mosby.
External links
- Books by White available online, from University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Notes and References
- Book: Marilyn. Ogilvie. Joy. Harvey. Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. Joy Harvey. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. registration. 2000. Routledge. 978-0-415-92040-7. 1370–1371.
- The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus . White. Edith Grace. PhD thesis. Columbia University. 1918.
- Book: Brown, Patricia Stocking. https://books.google.com/books?id=d6bzCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19. Early women ichthyologists . Women in Ichthyology: An Anthology in Honour of ET, Ro and Genie. Springer Science + Business Media, B.V.. 1994. 9789401101998. Balon. Eugene K.. 9–33. Bruton. Michael N.. Noakes. David L.G..
- News: Dr. E. Grace White . The New York Times . December 3, 1975.
- Glass . Bentley . A Textbook of General Biology. E. Grace White (review of 3rd ed.) . The Quarterly Review of Biology . University of Chicago Press . 22 . 2 . 1947 . 0033-5770 . 10.1086/395704 . 143.
