Profiles of pioneer women scientists: Katherine Esau.

From: The Botanical Review | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

"Profiles of Pioneer Women Scientists: Katherine Esau" tells the story of a noted botanist, plant anatomist, and electron microscopist who was born in the Russian Ukraine (in 1898), forced to flee the Bolshevik Revolution with her family - her father a mayor of Ekaterinoslav under the Czar - to Germany, where she received a bachelor's degree in agriculture, education she put to good use in America. Beginning in a sugarbeet field in Salinas, California, she progressed through the doctoral degree at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and there began her exceptional research on ...

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