Elizabeth Cleland Wagner Beasley Reed
Personal Information
Born: 1912
Died: 1996
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
Ohio State University BS Botany 1933 MS Botany 1934 PhD Plant Physiology 1936
Professional Life
Field of Study: Genetics; Educator
Institution/Corporation: Ohio State University; Harvard Universityl University of Minnesota
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Phi Beta Kappa (1033) Sigma Delta Epsilon Board of Planned Parenthood
Awards & Achievements
Awards: none
Achievements: "wrote about sexism towards women scientists & recovered histories of forgotten women scientists in ""American Women in Science Before the Civil War"" published in 1992 chronicling the lives & contributions of 22 women"
american geneticist & one of the 1st scientists to work on Drosophila speciation
Studied congenital disorders & diseases advocating for genetic counseling in connection with family planning
Wrote about sexism towards female scientists
1992, published "American Women in Science Before the Civil War," an attempt to recover the histories of women scientists
Conducted plant research but was told she could not publish her results unless she just used her initials because she was female; 1939 paper was published under the name E.C. Wagner
Was one of the women who contributed to establishing & standardizing processes to study species evolution