Edith Grace White

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.

Edith Grace White
Born(1890-05-16)May 16, 1890
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedDecember 1, 1975(1975-12-01) (aged 85)
Alma mater
  • Mount Holyoke College (AB)
  • Columbia University (AM, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
Institutions
  • Wilson College
  • American Museum of Natural History

Education and Career

White was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1890.[1][2] 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.[3] Her thesis was titled The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus.[2]

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.[1][3] 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.[1][3][4]

White published widely-used textbooks on genetics and on general biology.[3]

White died on December 1, 1975 in a nursing home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.[4]

Books
  • White, Edith Grace (1946). A textbook of general biology (3rd ed.). St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company. 1st ed. (1933) and 2nd ed. (1937) with same publisher.
  • White, Edith Grace (1962). Genetics (2nd ed.). New York: Vantage Press. Revised edition of Principles of Genetics, published by C.V. Mosby.

References
  1. Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Routledge. pp. 1370–1371. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.
  2. White, Edith Grace (1918). The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus (PhD thesis). Columbia University.
  3. Brown, Patricia Stocking (1994). "Early women ichthyologists". In Balon, Eugene K.; Bruton, Michael N.; Noakes, David L.G. (eds.). Women in Ichthyology: An Anthology in Honour of ET, Ro and Genie. Springer Science + Business Media, B.V. pp. 9–33. ISBN 9789401101998.
  4. "Dr. E. Grace White". The New York Times. December 3, 1975.
  • Books by White available online, from University of Pennsylvania Libraries


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