Edith Grace White
American zoologist (1890-1975)
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. 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. Her thesis was titled The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus.
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.
White published widely used textbooks on genetics and on general biology.
White died on December 1, 1975, in a nursing home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
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