Olive Swezy

Olive Swezy (1878–1963) was an American zoologist. She studied dinoflagellata and amoebas. Swezy often worked alongside Charles Kofoid in topics relating to applied zoology. She researched amoebas causing illness and performed early research on oogenesis along with Herbert McLean Evans. During the 1940s, Swezy wrote papers against Nazism and holding Japanese Americans in internment camps.