Henrietta Hooker
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker (December 12, 1851 – May 13, 1929) was an American botanist.
Life
She was born in Gardiner, Maine. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1873, and from the University of Syracuse, in 1888, with a PhD. In 1889, she studied at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.[1]
She began teaching at Mount Holyoke, in 1875.[2] In 1899, she was one of two Phd's teaching at Mount Holyoke.[3] She retired in 1908. She died on May 13, 1929 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Works
- John Merle Coulter; M.S. Coulter; Charles Reid Barnes et al., eds. (1889). "On Cuscuta Gronovii". Botanical Gazette. University of Chicago Press. pp. 31–.
References
- ↑ "Hooker papers, 1873-1942 (bulk 1884-1927)". asteria.fivecolleges.edu. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ Mary R.S. Creese (1 January 2000). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-585-27684-7.
- ↑ Miriam R. Levin (2005). Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science. UPNE. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-1-58465-419-3.