Helen Dean King

Helen Dean King (1869-1955) was an American biologist. Born at Owego, N. Y., she graduated from Vassar College in 1892 and in 1899 received her doctorate in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, where she was fellow and student assistant in biology from 1897 to 1904. She taught physiology at Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, from 1899 to 1907, was research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1906-08, and served as assistant in anatomy in 1908-09 and as an associate after 1909 at the Wistar Institute. She was also an assistant at Woods Hole, Mass. Her investigations dealt largely with problems of sex determination. Shes served as vice president of the American Society of Zoologists in 1937, and was associate editor of the Journal of Morphology and Physiology from 1924–1927 and editor of the Wistar Institute's bibliography service from 1922 to 1935.[1][2] King participated in breeding the Wistar rat, a strain of genetically homogeneous albino rats for use in biological and medical research.[3] [4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century. MIT Press. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978-0-262-65038-0.
  2. ↑ Kaufman, Dawn M.; Kaufman, Donald W.; Kaufman, Glennis A. (1996). "Women in the Early Years of the American Society of Mammalogists (1919-1949)". Journal of Mammalogy. 77 (3): 642. doi:10.2307/1382670.
  3. ↑ Clause, Bonnie Tocher (Summer 1993). "The Wistar Rat as a Right Choice: Establishing Mammalian Standards and the Ideal of a Standardized Mammal". Journal of the History of Biology. 26: 329–349, SpringerLink.
  4. ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1 September 2007). "Inbreeding, eugenics, and Helen Dean King (1869–1955)". Journal of the History of Biology. 40 (3): 467–507. doi:10.1007/s10739-006-9117-1 – via link.springer.com.
  5. ↑ Clause, B. T. (1998). "The Wistar Institute Archives: Rats (Not Mice) and History". Mendel Newsletter February, 1998. Archived from the original on 2006-12-16.
  • Bonnie Tocher Clause, The Wistar Institute Archives: Rats (Not Mice) and History, Mendel Newsletter, Feb. 1998
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.


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