| 词条 | Katharine Foot |
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BiographyFoot was born in Geneva, New York in 1852. The first edition of American Men of Science[3] described her being educated through private schools while growing up.[2] Foot was a member of the New York Women's club Sorosis[1]. The Advancement of Women club was organized under Sorosis and included the prominent member Alice Fletcher, the American Indian ethnographer. Foot was interested in Indians, and became president of the Washington auxiliary of the Women's National Indian Association, an organization that lobbied on behalf of Native Americans, in the mid 1800s. She accompanied Fletcher on a trip to Alaska to investigate Indians in the area. However, their opportunities for communicating with Indians did not work out as planned. In the 1890s Foot became a resident of Evanston, Illinois where she resided with Orrington Lunt, a Chicago business man, who was a founder of Northwestern University in Evanston. At age 40, she received training at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.[2] Thomas Hunt Morgan considered her a significant contributor to the emerging field of genetics[2] and, in 1906, she was included in the list of 1,000 most important scientists in the United States in American Men of Science.[4]Foot lived in London for a period in the 1930s, but moved to the United States by the time of the Second World War. She died in 1944, and her last address showed her residing in Camden, South Carolina.[1] CareerIn 1892, after her first six weeks in a course on invertebrates in Woods Hole, Charles Ottis Whitman delegated her to work on the maturation and fertilization of the egg of the earthworm, Allolobophora foetida.[1] She wrote a paper on the subject that appeared in the Journal of Morphology in 1894. In 1896 she was the first woman to give a lecture at the Woods Hole Laboratory. Her lecture was titled "The centrosomes of the fertilized egg of Allolobophora foetida". Ella Strobell joined Foot as her assistant in 1897. In 1899 Strobell's name started to appear as a coauthor of Foot's papers. Foot and Strobell were among the first to photograph the development stages of fertilized eggs and together researched the role of chromosomes in hereditary, sex-linked characteristics. Additionally, they developed a technique for creating samples at low temperatures for viewing under the microscope.[2] This was a significant technical advance of the time. Between 1906 and 1913 the two researched certain stages of chromosomal development of squash bugs. This was believed to be done in a Laboratory of their own in New York City.[1] Foot and Strobell participated in debates on the role of chromosomes in transmitting definite units of hereditary information such as sex-linked characteristics. They defended their position against T.H. Morgan. In 1914 Foot and Strobell went to England to continue their research under Harry Eltringham of New College Oxford. Their research stopped in 1917 when Strobell became ill. By the end of the First World War, Foot went on to volunteer for the American Red Cross in Paris. She researched the life cycle of the louse, Pediculus vestimenti, to develop a method of control.[1] Bibliography
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book|last1=Creese|first1=Mary R. S.|title=Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900|date=March 19, 1998|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0810832879|page=103}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Foot, Katharine}}2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|last1=Oakes|first1=Elizabeth H.|title=Encyclopedia of World Scientists|date=2007|publisher=Facts on File|isbn=978-0816061587|page=241}} 3. ^{{Cite book|title=American Men of Science; a Biographical Directory|last=Cattell|first=James McKeen|last2=Brimhall|publisher=Garrison, N.Y., The Science Press|year=1921|isbn=|location=|pages=}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Rossiter|first1=Margaret W.|title=Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940|date=August 1, 1984|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0801825095|page=293}} 7 : 1852 births|1944 deaths|Cell biologists|19th-century American zoologists|19th-century women scientists|20th-century American zoologists|20th-century women scientists |
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