{{short description|American zoologist}} {{use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = {{birth date |1890|05|16}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age |1975|12|01 |1890|05|16}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Zoology | workplaces = {{plainlist}} *Wilson College *American Museum of Natural History {{endplainlist}} | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = {{plainlist}} *Mount Holyoke College (AB) *Columbia University (AM, PhD) {{endplainlist}} | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''Edith Grace White''' (May 16, 1890 – December 1, 1975) was an American zoologist known for her studies of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). She was a professor of biology at Wilson College, and was a research associate of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
==Education and career== White was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1890.<ref name="OgilvieHarvey2000">{{cite book|first1=Marilyn|last1= Ogilvie|first2=Joy|last2= Harvey|author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2-link=Joy Harvey|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil|url-access=registration|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-92040-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil/page/1370 1370]–1371}}</ref><ref name="thesis">{{cite thesis|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu56092040|title= The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus |last=White|first=Edith Grace|type=PhD thesis|publisher=Columbia University|date=1918}}</ref> She earned a bachelor's degree at Mount Holyoke College. She went on to Columbia University for her graduate education, receiving an AM in 1913, and a PhD in 1918.<ref name="brown">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6bzCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19|chapter=Early women ichthyologists |first=Patricia Stocking|last= Brown|title=Women in Ichthyology: An Anthology in Honour of ET, Ro and Genie|publisher=Springer Science + Business Media, B.V.|year=1994|isbn=9789401101998|editor-last=Balon|editor-first=Eugene K.|pages=9–33|editor-last2=Bruton|editor-first2=Michael N.|editor-last3=Noakes|editor-first3=David L.G.}}</ref> Her thesis was titled ''The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus''.<ref name="thesis"/>
After a short time in positions at Heidelberg College and Shorter College, White moved to Wilson College in 1923, where she worked as a professor until 1958.<ref name="OgilvieHarvey2000" /><ref name="brown" /> She also continued to do research at the American Museum of Natural History, where she had a position as research associate from the mid-1930s until 1947.<ref name="OgilvieHarvey2000" /><ref name="brown" /><ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Dr. E. Grace White |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/03/archives/dr-e-grace-white.html |work=The New York Times |date=December 3, 1975}}</ref>
White published widely used textbooks on genetics and on general biology.<ref name="brown" />
White died on December 1, 1975, in a nursing home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.<ref name="obit" />
==Books== *{{cite book|last=White|first=Edith Grace|title= A textbook of general biology|edition=3rd|publisher=C.V. Mosby Company|location=St. Louis|date=1946}} 1st ed. (1933) and 2nd ed. (1937) with same publisher.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Glass | first=Bentley | title=A Textbook of General Biology. E. Grace White (review of 3rd ed.) | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_quarterly-review-of-biology_1947-06_22_2/page/142 | journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology | publisher=University of Chicago Press | volume=22 | issue=2 | year=1947 | issn=0033-5770 | doi=10.1086/395704 | pages=143}}</ref> *{{cite book|last=White|first=Edith Grace|title=Genetics|edition=2nd|publisher=Vantage Press|location=New York|date=1962|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004323567}} Revised edition of ''Principles of Genetics'', published by C.V. Mosby.
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== External links == * [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=White%2C%20Edith%20Grace%2C%201890- Books] by White available online, from University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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