Biography:Helen Jean Brown

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Short description: American botanist (1903–1982)

Helen Jean (Brown) Bromley (9 August 1903, in Beaumont – 16 June 1982, in Stamford) was an American botanist and phycologist noted for her study of the algal family Vaucheriaceae.[1][2] She earned her PhD from Ohio State University, in 1929.[3] She published using her maiden name, and served as both an instructor of botany and registrar at the University of Connecticut.[4] She was married to entomologist Stanley Willard Bromley.[5] The standard author abbreviation H.J.Br. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

Works

  • Brown, Helen Jean (1929). "The Algal Family Vaucheriaceae". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 48 (1): 86–117. doi:10.2307/3222465. ISSN 0003-0023. 
  • Brown, Helen Jean (1930). "The Desmids of the Southeastern Coastal Plain Region of United States". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 49 (2): 97–139. doi:10.2307/3222306. ISSN 0003-0023. 

References

  1. Howes, Durward (1935) (in en). American Women. Richard Blank Publishing Company. p. 85. https://books.google.com/books?id=8qkSAAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 8 March 2019. 
  2. Stuckey, Ronald L. (1983). "Necrology - HELEN JEAN (BROWN) BROMLEY (1903-1982)". Ohio Journal of Science 83: 276. https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/22971/V083N5_275.pdf;jsessionid=57E912961A2A24E993A60C9F87154305?sequence=1. 
  3. CLARENCE E. TAFT (1973). Seventy years of Phycology at the Ohio State University. Ohio State University. p. 104. https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/21965/1/V073N2_103.pdf. Retrieved 2019-03-08. "Helen Jean Brown received her doctorate in phycology in 1929, and soon after became a member of the faculty.". 
  4. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000) (in en). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 182–183. ISBN 9780415920407. https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC. Retrieved 8 March 2019. 
  5. Alexander, Charles P. (1 June 1954). "Stanley Willard Bromley (1899–1954)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 47 (2): 375–376. doi:10.1093/aesa/47.2.375. 
  6. IPNI,  H.J.Br., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=H.J.Br.