Biography:Caroline Thomas Rumbold
Caroline Thomas Rumbold (July 22, 1877 – November 7, 1949) was an American botanist. She specialized in forest pathology. Her researches focused on “fungus diseases of trees and blue stain fungi of wood.”[1]
Biography
Born on July 22, 1877, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, Caroline Thomas Rumbold was the daughter of Thomas Frasier Rumbold and Charlotte E. Ledengerber.[2] In 1901 she graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts. During her time there, she published a short story in volume 8 of the Smith College Monthly, titled In the Time of Otto the Second.[3] She got both the master's degree and the doctorate from the Washington University in St. Louis.[2]
She started her career as an assistant at the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture in 1903.[4] She later moved to University of Missouri to become an assistant in botany. From 1929 to 1942 she had a long career as an associate pathologist at the Department of Plant Pathology in the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She briefly worked as a fellow at the Missouri Botanical Garden.[1]
She was associated with a number of professional institutions including Phytopathological Society, the American Society of Plant Physiologists and the Botanical Society of Washington.[1]
She died on November 7, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ogilvie, Marilyn (December 16, 2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Oxon: Routledge. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1-135-96343-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=rUCUAgAAQBAJ. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Howes, Durward (1937). American Women, Volume 2. Richard Blank Publishing Company. p. 592. https://books.google.com/books?id=9i_TAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ↑ (in en) The Smith College Monthly. 1900. https://books.google.com/books?id=fbQAAAAAYAAJ&vq=%22There%20was%20a%20little%20girl,%20and%20she%20had%20a%20little%20curl,%20Right%20down%20in%20the%20middle%20of%20her%20forehead%20;%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ↑ Browning, William (1925). Medical Heredity: Distinguished Children of Physicians (United States, to 1910). Baltimore, Maryland: Norman, Remington Company. p. 155. https://books.google.com/books?id=OSRWAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
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