Edith Grace White

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.

Edith Grace White
Born	(1890-05-16)May 16, 1890 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	December 1, 1975(1975-12-01) (aged 85)
Alma mater	Mount Holyoke College (AB) Columbia University (AM, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology
Institutions	Wilson College American Museum of Natural History

Education and career

White was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1890.^[1][2] 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.^[3] Her thesis was titled The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus.^[2]

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.^[1][3] 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.^[1][3][4]

White published widely used textbooks on genetics and on general biology.^[3]

White died on December 1, 1975, in a nursing home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.^[4]

Books

• White, Edith Grace (1946). A textbook of general biology (3rd ed.). St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company. 1st ed. (1933) and 2nd ed. (1937) with same publisher.^[5]
• White, Edith Grace (1962). Genetics (2nd ed.). New York: Vantage Press. Revised edition of Principles of Genetics, published by C.V. Mosby.