Esther Byrnes
Esther Byrnes | |
|---|---|
 Byrnes in 1894 | |
| Born | 1867 Overbrook, Pennsylvania |
| Died | 1946 Maine |
| Citizenship | American |
| Awards | Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology |
Esther Fussell Byrnes (1867–1946) was an American biologist and science teacher. She was one of the first women copepodologists—scientists who study copepods.[1] She was a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, as well as the American Society of Naturalists.[2]
Life
Byrnes was born in Overbrook, Philadelphia in 1867. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1891. For the next two years she then worked in their biology department as an assistant at Vassar College.[2] She then returned to Bryn Mawr College and obtained a masters degree in 1894, followed by a doctorate in 1898, whilst working in their biology department.[2]
She left and went to teach in New York at the Girls High School, Brooklyn until her retirement from teaching in 1932. During this time, she was a member of the New York Science Teachers Association. [2] This was only interrupted during from 1926 to 1927, when she took a year off to tutor the princesses of the Japanese royal family.[3]
In 1940, she became director of Mount Desert Biological Laboratory, Maine.[2]
Her research was focused on marine biology.[4] Her work in marine biology at Bryn Mawr focused on the study of limb regeneration in amphibians as well as studying cyclops, a freshwater species of crustacean. [2]
Works
- Byrnes, E. F. (1909). "The Fresh Water Cyclops of Long Island". Cold Spring Harbor Monographs. 7. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10398.
- Byrnes, E. F. (1921). "The Metamorphosis of Cyclops americanus Marsh and Cyclops signatus var. tenuicornis". Cold Spring Harbor Monographs. 9. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
References
- ^ Damkaer, David M. (2002). The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History. American Philosophical Society. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-87169-240-5.
- ^ a b c d e f 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. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-585-27684-7.
- ^ Special To The New York Times (1946-09-05). "Dr. Esther Byrnes, a Science Teacher; Tutor of Princesses of Royal Family in Japan in 1926-27 Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
- ^ "Dr. Esther Bynes, Retired Teacher". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 5 Sep 1946. p. 11. Retrieved 2015-11-22 – via Newspapers.com.
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