Libbie Hyman

Libbie Henrietta Hyman (December 6, 1888 in Des Moines, Iowa; † August 3, 1969 in New York City ) was an American zoologist.

Life and work

Hyman's father was Polish, her mother was German. She grew up in poverty. Hyman received her Ph. D. in 1915 from the University of Chicago in Illinois. After that, she did research from 1916 to 1931 at the same university at the zoologist Charles Manning Child. One focus of research during this time were flatworms. From 1937 until her death in 1969, she pursued a research activity ( "honorary research appointment" ) at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

From 1959 to 1963 was editor of Systematic Zoology Hyman. In 1959 she was president of the Society of Systematic Zoology. In 1960 she was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London. From the American Museum of Natural History, she received a " Gold Medal Award ".

Works

Hyman's most comprehensive work was the six-volume The Invertebrates (1940-1968), of the individual at her death volumes were still unfinished. Your manuals Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology (1919 ) and A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy ( 1922) were much used works. Here is a selection of their works:

  • A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology. , 1919.
  • A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Zoology. In 1922.
  • Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy., 1942.
  • The Invertebrates. 1940-1968 (6 volumes).

Swell

  • Entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, 1998; as entry in the Britannica Online (English )
  • Short entry at the Jewish Virtual Library (English )
  • Kurzbiografischer entry at biography.com (English)
  • Zoologist
  • Research Fellow of the American Museum of Natural History
  • Americans
  • Born in 1888
  • Died in 1969
  • Woman
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