A. Elizabeth Adams
For other people named Elizabeth Adams, see Elizabeth Adams.
Amy Elizabeth Adams (born March 28, 1892 in Delaware, New Jersey d. February 15, 1962 in South Hadley, Massachusetts) was a zoologist and professor at Mount Holyoke College. She taught zoology at Mount Holyoke from 1919 to 1957.[1] Adams earned an M.A. at Columbia University in 1919 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1926.[2]
Works
- 'An experimental study of the development of the mouth in the amphibian embryo', Journal of Experimental Zoology, 40, 1924
- 'Studies on life in Triturus viridescens : the effects of ovarian grafts in castrated males', Journal of Experimental Zoology, 55 (January 1930)
- 'The endocrine glands and molting in Triturus viridescens', Journal of Experimental Zoology, 63:1 (August 1932)
- 'The gonad- and thyroid- stimulating potencies of phyone and hebin', Anatomical Record 45:3 (June 1934)
- Studies in experimental zoology (regeneration, experimental embryology, endocrinology), 1936
- (with Beatrice Gray) 'A comparative study of the thyroid glands of hypophysectomized newts after treatment with anterior pituitary, thyroid and iodine', Anatomical Record 65:1 (April 1936)
- (with Florence Martindale) 'The response of thyroid glands of hypophysectomized newts to injections of phyone and their reaction after cessation of treatment', Anatomical Record 65:3 (June 1936)
- (with Barbara Granger and Ruth Rhoades) 'Stimulation of the thyroid gland of the guinea pig by anuran anterior pituitary', Anatomical Record 72:4 & supplement (December 1938)
- (with Elizabeth M. DeForest and Barbara Granger) 'Effects of administering mouse anterior pituitary to the newt and the frog', Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 42 (1939)
- 'Sexual conditions in triturus viridescens. III, The reproductive cycle of the adult aquatic form of both sexes', American Journal of Anatomy, 66:2 (March 1940)
A. Elizabeth Adams Papers at Mount Holyoke College
References
- ↑ Mount Holyoke College. "Adams, A. Elizabeth, Adams papers". Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ↑ Bailey, Martha J. (1994). American Women in Science:A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO, Inc. ISBN 0-87436-740-9.
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