Florence Hedges (August 24, 1878 – December 17, 1956
[Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). ''Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology.'' ]Cambridge University Press
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, ) was a pioneering American
plant pathologist
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and
botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
with the
United States Department of Agriculture
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's Bureau of Plant Industry.
[Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1920). ''R.U.S. ural Uplook Service A Register of the Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada.'']
Life and career
Hedges was born in
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, making ...
. She graduated from
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
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in 1901. Much of her work involved investigations into bacteria-induced plant disease. Charlotte Elliot, Hellie A. Brown,
Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan,
Anna Jenkins, and
Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and
Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA.
With
Erwin Frink Smith
Erwin Frink Smith (January 21, 1854 – April 6, 1927) was an American plant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture. He played a major role in demonstrating that bacteria could cause plant disease.
Life and career
Smith w ...
, she also translated the 1896 biography of
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
by
Émile Duclaux
Émile Duclaux (24 June 1840 – May 2, 1904) was a French microbiologist and chemist born in Aurillac, Cantal.
He studied at the College of Aurillac, the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and at École Normale Supérieure. In 1862 he began work as ...
.
[Smith, E. F., Hedges, F. (1920). ''Pasteur: The History of a Mind'' (orig. ''Pasteur, histoire d'un esprit''). W. B. Saunders Co. ASIN: B003GEE4AE]
She died in
San Francisco, California
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.
[Staff report (1957). Deaths. ''The Michigan Alumnus'' - Volume 63 - Page 252]
References
External links
Florence Hedges (1878-1956)via
Smithsonian Institution
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1878 births
1956 deaths
20th-century American botanists
American women botanists
Writers from Lansing, Michigan
University of Michigan alumni
20th-century American translators
20th-century American women scientists
United States Department of Agriculture people