Katharine Jeannette Bush

Katharine Jeannette Bush
Born (1855-12-30)December 30, 1855
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Died January 19, 1937(1937-01-19) (aged 81)
Alma mater Yale University
Scientific career
Fields Zoology
Institutions United States Fish Commission

Katharine Jeannette Bush (December 30, 1855 – January 19, 1937)[1] was an American zoologist.

Biography

She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Connecticut. In 1901, she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in the sciences at Yale University.

Bush studied zoology under A. E. Verrill and in 1879 assumed the position of assistant in the zoological museum at Yale University. She served on the United States Fish Commission, helped to edit the 1890 edition of Webster's dictionary, and was made a member of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists. She wrote "The Tubicolous Annelids of the Tribes Sabellides and Serpulides," in Harriman Alaska Expedition, volume xii (1905), besides Deep Water Mollusca (1885) and New Species of Turbonilla (1899).

References

  1. ↑ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415920388.
  •  Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Bush, Katharine Jeanette". Encyclopedia Americana.
  • "Yale Peabody Museum : Collections : Archives : Katharine Jeannette Bush". Retrieved 23 December 2011.


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