Katharine Jeannette Bush

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

Katharine Jeannette Bush
Born(1855-12-30)December 30, 1855
Scranton, Pennsylvania
DiedJanuary 19, 1937(1937-01-19) (aged 81)
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
InstitutionsUnited States Fish Commission

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 zoology 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; Harvey, Joy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415920388.
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