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D'Arcy. 2008; 6" x 9" hardcover; 352 pages; 131 black and white figures; 3 pounds; ISBN 978-0-89054-359-7; Item No. 43597 "These chapters describe the lives and accomplishments of the early women plant pathologists in a way that is both moving and scholarly. The unifying theme is that our foremothers in this field loved their science so well that they persisted and succeeded in the face of considerable explicit prejudice. Their stories remind us that we are fortunate to work freely on the subject that fascinates us. Moreover, readers may be surprised to learn how many bricks in the foundation of plant pathology were laid by these persistent women." Caitilyn Allen
"Reading Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology brings you into contact with a host of fascinating fellow scientists across barriers of both time and geography—we’ve known some of their names, but we’ve had very little idea of the lives and career paths of most of the female plant pathologists who have gone before us. I especially enjoyed making the acquaintance of some of the ladies whose life’s work helped me directly, such as Anna Jenkins, who had the (incredible) patience to study the spot anthracnose pathogen of dogwoods, and Cynthia Westcott, whose indomitable spirit and successful career long ago convinced Cornell’s Department of Plant Pathology that women could be pathologists of ornamental plants. Margery Daughtrey Contents Introduction Early Women in the United States and at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Mary Elizabeth Banning Effie A. Southworth Flora W. Patterson Vera Katherine Charles Charlotte Elliott Anna E. Jenkins Edna Marie Buhrer and Grace Whitney Sherman Cobb Women Plant Pathologists in Europe Mary Dilys Glynne Mary T. Franklin Audrey M. Shepherd Marion Augusta Watson Eva Sansome Grace Marion Waterhouse Johanna Westerdijk Mathilde Bensaúde Maria de Lourdes Vieira Borges Rosalind Franklin North American University Faculty and Private Practitioners Helen Margaret Gilkey Cynthia Westcott Katherine Esau Margaret Newton Helen Hart Ruth F. Allen Anne Marie Kopecky Vidaver Virginia R. Ferris Hedwig Hirschmann Triantaphyllou Excerpts from Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology
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