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7. Libbie Henrietta Hyman
7. Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Pages 102-115
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"My mother, Sabina or Bena Neumann, was born in Stettin, Germany, one of eight children of a father who died young. She migrated to the United States and went directly to Des Moines, because she had a brother living there.
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At first we lived in a rented house, then built our own house. My father opened a clothing store on the main street of the town but it was never successful and we lived mainly on the rentals from the Des Moines building.
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Finally I took a job in a factory, pasting labels on boxes. "I was coming home from the factory one autumn afternoon when I met Mary Crawford.
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"In connection with my physiological work on hydras and planarians, it was necessary to have exact identifications of the species employed. I soon found that these common animals, used throughout the zoological world for a variety of purposes, were frequently misidentified, and in fact there had been no careful study of their taxonomy.
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To escape this situation I left Chicago in 1931, toured western Europe for fifteen months, and on return settled in New York to devote my entire time to the writing of a treatise on the invertebrates. "I settled near the American Museum of Natural History in order to use the magnificent library of this institution.
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"Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, American Microscopical Society, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole) , American Society of Zoologists (vice president, 1953)
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His whole approach to the dynamics of form anct development, usually subsumed uncler the title of the Axial Gradient theory, is now so neglected that it is cloubtful if many of the current generation of postdoctoral fellows in clevelopmental biology would have any idea what the expression means. But as the molecular processes underlying differentiation are more fully eluciciatect, it is certain that the time will come when the biology of the whole embryo again becomes interesting.
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Her work on flatworms was very extensive, embracing all the major free-living groups, marine and terrestrial as well as freshwater. She was able to report the rediscovery of the peculiar large Hydrol'imax griseus Haldeman, the sole member of a genus endemic to eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey a unique distribution that hac} not been found for nearly half a century and which, at the moment, may well be a somewhat forgotten endangered species.
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that the scientific public regarded the book as based on her own work rather than on the researches of others. Actually, though she was technically correct, her enormous knowledge did incleec!
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Physiological studies on planaria.
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1931 Studies on the morphology, taxonomy, and distribution of North American triclad turbellaria.
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114 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1953 The polyclad flatworms of the Pacific coast of North America.
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