Katharine Jeannette Bush
Katharine Jeannette Bush | |
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Born | |
Died | January 19, 1937 | (aged 81)
Alma mater | Yale University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology |
Institutions | United States Fish Commission |
Katharine Jeannette Bush (December 30, 1855 – January 19, 1937)[1] was an American zoologist.
Biography[]
She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Connecticut. In 1901, she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in zoology at Yale University.
Bush studied zoology under A. E. Verrill and in 1879 assumed the position of assistant in the zoological museum at Yale University. She served on the United States Fish Commission, helped to edit the 1890 edition of Webster's dictionary, and was made a member of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists. She wrote "The Tubicolous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides," in Harriman Alaska Expedition, volume xii (1905), besides Deep Water Mollusca (1885) and New Species of Turbonilla (1899).
References[]
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415920388.
External links[]
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
- "Yale Peabody Museum : Collections : Archives : Katharine Jeannette Bush". Retrieved 23 December 2011.
- "Katharine Jeannette Bush - Story". Science Stories. 1937-01-19.
- American science writers
- People from Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Yale University alumni
- American zoologists
- American naturalists
- 1855 births
- 1937 deaths
- United States Fish Commission personnel
- American women biologists