Mendel the Mentor: Yale Women Doctorates in Biochemistry, 1898-1937

Rossiter, Margaret W.

doi:10.1021/ed071p215

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“…Despite the relative openness of biochemistry to women, in the early days as now mentors played a crucial role. Margaret Rossiter has documented the unusual level of support provided by Lafayette Mendel at Yale to an extraordinary number of women biochemists [11]. Many of these women, notably Florence Seibert and Icie May Hoobler, the most famous of their day, went on to establish laboratories in which they mentored the next generation of women.…”

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One hundred years of American Women in biochemistry *

Wolfson

2006

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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The occasion of ASBMB's 100th anniversary provides an opportunity to consider the history and accomplishments of women biochemists over the past century. American women in biochemistry have ranged from the highly visible, such as Nobel Prize winners Gert Cori and Gertrude Elion, to those who contributed in relative obscurity to equally dramatic breakthroughs. Women with Ph.D.s in biochemistry established departments of public health, nutrition, and home economics when more prestigious academic departments were not open to them. As in all fields of science, women have made great progress in biochemistry in recent years, and ASBMB reflects that progress; the past, current, and incoming presidents of the Society are all women. The data and biographical information presented here should provide a basis for inclusion of more women in recounting the history of biochemistry.

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Section: Some Notable Contributions Of Women Biochemists and Moleculamentioning

confidence: 99%