Elsie Wattie Lackey Explained

Elsie Wattie Lackey
Birth Name:Elsie Wattie
Birth Date:February 21, 1901
Birth Place:Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Death Date:April 16, 1992 (age 91)
Death Place:Florida, U.S.
Other Names:Elsie W. Lackey
Occupation:Bacteriologist, botanist
Spouse(S):James B. Lackey

Elsie Wattie Lackey (February 21, 1901 – April 16, 1992) was an American bacteriologist and botanist who worked for the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in the 1930s and 1940s, and was later a researcher at the University of Florida. She often published with her husband, microbiologist .

Early life and education

Wattie was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the daughter of William M. Wattie and Nellie Jane Wattie. Her father was a draftsman, inventor, and superintendent of a loom works, born in Canada.[1] [2] She graduated from Connecticut Agricultural College in 1923,[3] and earned a master's degree there in 1925.[4]

Career

Wattie was first assigned to the Water and Sanitation Investigations Station of the USPHS in 1926. She worked in the agency's Stream Pollution Investigation Laboratory in the 1930s and 1940s.[5] Later in her career she was a researcher while her husband was a professor at the University of Florida.[6] She was a member of Sigma Xi[7] and the American Public Health Association (APHA).[8]

Publications

Lackey's research was published in academic and technical journals including Sewage Works Journal, Public Health Reports, Journal of the American Water Works Association,The American Midland Naturalist, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences, Microbiology,[9] American Journal of Public Health, and Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.[10]

Personal life

Wattie married her colleague, cytologist James Bridges Lackey, after 1950. Her husband died in 1982, and she died in Florida in 1992, at the age of 91.

Notes and References

  1. 1910 United States census, via Ancestry.
  2. News: February 3, 1912 . Men Who hold Responsible Positions . The Evening Herald . 5 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: June 11, 1923 . 62 Graduated from Connecticut . Transcript-Telegram . 9 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Connecticut Agricultural College, Commencement Program (June 13, 1925).
  5. News: October 14, 1938 . Disposal Plant Operators Close Conclave Today . The Post-Crescent . 20 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: September 5, 1953 . Florida U. Professor Says Red Tide Definitely Cause of Latest Mass Fish Deaths . Tampa Tribune . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: May 12, 1940 . Scientists Join Sigma Xi Roll . Cincinnati Enquirer . 9 . Newspapers.com.
  8. September 1934 . Association News . American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health . en . 24 . 9 . 1000–1001 . 10.2105/AJPH.24.9.1000 . 1558708.
  9. Lackey . J. B. . Lackey . Elsie W. . 1961 . The Habitat and Description of a New Genus of Sulphur Bacterium . Microbiology . 26 . 1 . 29–39 . 10.1099/00221287-26-1-29 . free . 14461396 . 1465-2080.
  10. Lackey . James B. . Lackey . Elsie W. . November 1963 . Microscopic Algae And Protozoa In The waters near Plymouth in August 1962 . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom . en . 43 . 3 . 797–805 . 10.1017/S0025315400025698 . 1963JMBUK..43..797L . 1469-7769.
  11. Butterfield . C. T. . Wattie . Elsie . 1938 . Studies of Sewage Purification: VIII. Observations on the Effect of Variations in the Initial Numbers of Bacteria and of the Dispersion of Sludge Flocs on the Course of Oxidation of Organic Material by Bacteria in Pure Culture . Sewage Works Journal . 10 . 5 . 815–838 . 25030807 . 0096-9362.
  12. Ruchhoft . C. C. . Butterfield . C. T. . McNamee . P. D. . Wattie . Elsie . 1939 . Studies of Sewage Purification: IX. Total Purification, Oxidation, Adsorption, and Synthesis of Nutrient Substrates by Activated Sludge . Public Health Reports . 54 . 12 . 468–496 . 10.2307/4582832 . 4582832 . 0094-6214.
  13. Lackey . James B. . Wattie . Elsie . 1940 . Studies of Sewage Purification: XIII. The Biology of Sphaerotilus Natans Kutzing in Relation to Bulking of Activated Sludge . Sewage Works Journal . 12 . 4 . 669–684 . 25029065 . 0096-9362.
  14. Butterfield . C. T. . Wattie . Elsie . 1941 . Studies of Sewage Purification: XV. Effective Bacteria in Purification by Trickling Filters . Public Health Reports . 56 . 52 . 2445–2464 . 10.2307/4583963 . 4583963 . 0094-6214.
  15. Wattie . Elsie . 1942 . Cultural Characteristics of Zooglea-Forming Bacteria Isolated from Activated Sludge and Trickling Filters . Public Health Reports . 57 . 41 . 1519–1534 . 10.2307/4584242 . 4584242 . 0094-6214.
  16. Moore . W. Allan . Ruchhoft . C. C. . Wattie . Elsie . 1942 . Oxidation-Reduction Studies: I. Oxidation-Reduction Potentials Developed by Pure Cultures in Sewage . Sewage Works Journal . 14 . 5 . 980–990 . 25029458 . 0096-9362.
  17. Butterfield . C. T. . Wattie . Elsie . Megregian . Stephen . Chambers . C. W. . 1943 . Influence of pH and Temperature on the Survival of Coliforms and Enteric Pathogens When Exposed to Free Chlorine . Public Health Reports . 58 . 51 . 1837–1866 . 10.2307/4584715 . 4584715 . 0094-6214.
  18. Wattie, Elsie, and Cecil W. Chambers. "Relative Resistance of Coliform Organisms and certain Enteric Pathogens to Excess-Lime Treatment" Journal of the American Water Works Association 35(6)(June 1943): 709-20.
  19. Lackey . James B. . Wattie . Elsie . Kachmar . John F. . Placak . Oliver R. . 1943 . Some Plankton Relationships in a Small Unpolluted Stream . The American Midland Naturalist . 30 . 2 . 403–425 . 10.2307/2421288 . 2421288 . 0003-0031.
  20. Wattie, Elsie. "Coliform Confirmation from Raw and Chlorinated Waters with Brilliant Green Bile Lactose Broth" Public Health Reports 58 (1943): 377.
  21. Wattie . Elsie . Butterfield . C. T. . 1944 . Relative Resistance of Escherichia coli and Eberthella typhosa to Chlorine and Chloramines . Public Health Reports . 59 . 52 . 1661–1671 . 10.2307/4585139 . 4585139 . 0094-6214.
  22. Wattie . Elsie . 1948 . Relative Productivity of Newer Coliform Media . Public Health Reports . 63 . 9 . 269–274 . 10.2307/4586460 . 4586460 . 18901955 . 0094-6214.
  23. Lackey . Elsie Wattie . 1956 . Some Visibility Problems in Large Aquaria, Ii. a Bacteriological Study of the Sea Water Used in Marineland . Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences . 19 . 4 . 267–273 . 24315228 . 0015-3850.
  24. 10.2105/AJPH.49.8.1060 . Effectiveness of Iodine for the Disinfection of Swimming Pool Water . 1959 . Black . A. P. . Lackey . James B. . Lackey . Elsie Wattie . American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health . 49 . 8 . 1060–1068 . 13801138 . 1372877 .
  25. Lackey, James Bridges, Elsie Wattie Lackey, and George B. Morgan. Taxonomy and ecology of the sulfur bacteria (1965).
  26. Lackey, James Bridges, and Elsie Wattie Lackey.A Partial Checklist of Florida Fresh-water Algae and Protozoa: With Reference to McCloud and Cue Lakes Florida Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station, 1967.

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