Edna Hague Fawcett (1879 – 1960) was an American

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and specialist on plant health problems.Kelly, Mary Greiner (June 1, 1934). Women Scientists Hold High Rank in Developing Plant Disease Cures. ''

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Life and career

Fawcett earned a bachelor's degree from

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in 1901.Leonard, John William (1914). ''Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada.'' American Commonwealth Co. Around this same time, Fawcett held a temporary position as an assistant at a public school in

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. She continued her studies at

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before taking a position at the New York Botanical Garden. She joined the research staff of the Bureau of Plant Industry at the

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in 1906. Working her way up from a technician position, Fawcett eventually became an assistant pathologist in 1930. Among her most notable written studies are ''Stabilization of Boric Acid Buffers By Aeration'' and ''The Problem of Dilution in Colorimetric H-Ion Measurements'', which were both written in conjunction with S. F. Acree.

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