| 词条 | Catherine Hayes Bailey |
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| name = Catherine Hayes Bailey | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|05|09}} | birth_place = New Brunswick, N.J | death_date = {{Death date and age |2014|03|29|1921|05|09}} | death_place = Vermont | occupation = Plant Geneticist | known_for = Honored by the Peach Council for her contributions to the US peach industry }} Catherine Hayes Bailey (May 9, 1921 – March 29, 2014) was an American plant geneticist known for developing new varieties of fruit. She was honored by the National Peach Council for her contributions to the US peach industry. Early life and educationBailey was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey; her father was superintendent for the Rutgers Vegetable Farm.[1] She received her bachelor's degree from Douglass College in 1942. She worked with Rutgers horticulturist Maurice Blake, and ran his stone-fruit growing program until 1948. Encouraged by Blake she entered the Ph. D. program at Rutgers University, and graduated in 1957 with a dissertation on aspects of growing peach cultivars.[1] Bailey was a Baptist,[1] and had also attended Prairie Bible Institute in Canada.[2] ResearchAfter finishing her doctorate, Bailey stayed on at Rutgers as a professor, a position she held until her retirement in 1980.[2][3][4] She continued her work in the Rutgers program with Fred Hough, expanding it from growing just peaches and apples and developing nectarine and apricot cultivars;[1] during her career she introduced more than 39 new fruit varieties, including many new (patented) apples.[5] She was particularly known for her work on the genetic inheritance of ripening times.[3] Honors and awardsBailey was honored by the National Peach Council for her contributions to the US peach industry.[5] She was listed in American Men and Women of Science in the 1992-1993 edition. She was a member of several professional societies, including the International Society for Horticultural Science, the American Society for Horticultural Science, and the American Pomological Society.[3] Personal life and deathBailey was unmarried and lived with her parents until their death. After retirement she moved to Vermont,[1] where she died on March 29, 2014.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite journal|last=Okie|first=W. R.|year=2006|title=Five Eastern Peach Breeders|journal=HortScience|volume=41|issue=1|pages=11–13|url=http://naldc-legacy.nal.usda.gov/naldc/download.xhtml?id=18100&content=PDF}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, Catherine Hayes}}2. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=http://www.addisonindependent.com/obituary-catherine-bailey-1|title=Catherine Bailey|newspaper=Addison County Independent|accessdate=November 22, 2015}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite book |page = 18 |last = Bailey |first = Martha J. |title = American Women in Science |isbn = 978-0-87436-740-9 |publisher = ABC-CLIO |year = 1994}} 4. ^{{cite book |editor-first=Karen |editor-last=O'Connor |contribution=Women's leadership in biology |first=Shirley |last=Key |title=Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/?id=5yt1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA637&lpg=PA637&dq=Catherine+Hayes+Bailey#v=onepage&q=Catherine%20Hayes%20Bailey&f=false |page=637 |location=Thousand Oaks, California |publisher=SAGE reference |year=2010 |isbn=9781412960830 }} 5. ^1 {{cite book |last=Stanley |first=Autumn |title=Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uRJt7QqA7GEC&pg=PA38 |year=1995 |publisher=Rutgers UP |isbn=9780813521978 |page=38}} 11 : American botanists|American geneticists|1921 births|2014 deaths|American women botanists|American women biologists|Women geneticists|People from New Brunswick, New Jersey|20th-century botanists|20th-century American scientists|20th-century women scientists |
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