Eva Konrad Hawkins
botanist (1930-2020)
Eva Konrad Hawkins (March 12, 1930 – April 18, 2020) was a Hungarian-born American biologist and college professor.
Early life
Éva Konrád was raised in Berettyóújfalu, near Debrecen, Hungary, to Jewish parents József Konrád and Róza Klein. Her younger brother was writer György Konrád. The siblings lived in a safe house in Budapest during World War II; their parents survived the Strasshof concentration camp in Austria.
Konrád moved to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, after walking to Austria in snow, with a backpack of her belongings. In 1961, she completed doctoral studies in botany at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation on the Callithamnion roseum, a type of red seaweed.
Career
Hawkins taught biology at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and City College of New York. She was an algae expert on the staff of the New York Zoological Society's Osborn Laboratory of Marine Sciences, supported by a Rockefeller Foundation grant. She designed underwater exhibits for the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Aquarium. She held a research fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden.
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