| 词条 | Catherine Steele |
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| name = Catherine Cassels Steele | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|09|17|df=y}} | birth_place = West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|12|03|1903|09|17|df=y}} | death_place = Lacey, Washington | alma_mater = University of St Andrews University of Illinois Harvard University | known_for = Expertise in plant biochemistry | spouse = Louis Hamilton Bock }}Catherine Cassels Steele (17 September 1903–3 December 1995) was a Scottish scientist who is best known for her expertise in plant biochemistry.[1] She wrote An Introduction to Plant Biochemistry.[2] Early life and educationSteele was the daughter of James Steele, the former headmaster of St Monance school in Fife.[1] Steele's early education began at West Calder at the age of five. After moving to St Monans and by age 12, her secondary educational experience occurred at Waid Academy in Anstruther, Fife.[1] In 1920, Steele entered the University of St Andrews graduating in 1924 with a First Class Honours in mathematics and natural philosophy. She continued to study at the University, and in 1925 received a BSc with Special Distinction in chemistry, physics and mathematics. She joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society soon after. She changed fields to study chemistry and earned her PhD in 1928.[1] Steele was a Commonwealth Fellow, where she traveled to the United States to continue her research at University of Illinois for two years and then at Harvard University.[1] Professional life{{Expand section|date=January 2019}}Steele taught at the Ladies' Branch of the Horticultural College, Swanley, Kent (later the Swanley Horticultural College) in the 1930s[3] where many middle-class women learned horticulture.[4] Personal lifeSteele married Louis Hamilton Bock in 1934.[5] Together they had two sons.[6] Steele died on 3 December 3 1995 in Lacey, Washington.[1] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{Cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Steele.html|title=Steele biography|website=www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk|access-date=2017-03-28}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Steele, Catherine}}2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/introduction-biochemistry-Catherine-Cassels-Steele/dp/B0007IXD7W|title=An introduction to plant biochemistry|last=Steele|first=Catherine Cassels|date=1949-01-01|publisher=Bell|edition=2nd|language=English}} 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Opitz|first1=Donald L.|title="A Triumph of Brains over Brute": Women and Science at the Horticultural College, Swanley, 1890–1910|journal=Isis|date=2013|volume=104|issue=1|pages=30–62|doi=10.1086/669882|pmid=23789507|url=http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=snl-faculty-pubs}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last1=Meredith|first1=Anne|title=Horticultural Education in England, 1900-40: Middle-Class Women and Private Gardening Schools|journal=Garden History|date=2003|volume=31|issue=1|pages=67–79|doi=10.2307/1587402|jstor=1587402}} 5. ^"Student's Romance in U.S.: St Andrews Graduate Married in University Chapel." The Scotsman. (May 24, 1934). 6. ^Birth Announcements. The Scotsman. October 20, 1939 and February 27, 1942. 9 : Scottish biochemists|Scottish women scientists|1903 births|1995 deaths|People educated at Waid Academy|Alumni of the University of St Andrews|University of Illinois alumni|20th-century women scientists|20th-century Scottish scientists |
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