Dorothea Rudnick

Dorothea Rudnick (January 17, 1907 - January 10, 1990) was an American embryologist, who also made contributions as a scientific editor and translator.

Early life and education

Dorothea Rudnick was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin in 1907, and was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Her father Paul Rudnick was chief chemist for Armour Laboratories, and both of her brothers became physicists. As a student at Parker High School she won the $2500 grand prize in an essay contest sponsored by the Chicago Daily Tribune.[1]

She earned her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1931 under zoologist Benjamin Harrison Willier.[2] Her dissertation was titled "Thyroid Forming Potencies of the Early Chick Blastoderm."[3]

Career

Dr. Rudnick spent most of her academic career at Albertus Magnus College, as a professor in the biology department from 1940 until she retired in 1977, and as an emeritus professor after retirement. She also had ongoing research affiliation with the nearby Osborn Memorial Laboratories at Yale University.[4] Among her research collaborators was biologist Viktor Hamburger.[5] Rudnick's publications were especially noted for the cell diagrams she hand-drew to explain embryogenesis and other processes.[6]

She served as secretary and publications editor of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and as longtime editor of symposia published by the Society for Developmental Biology.[7] Her translation work included a 1967 biography of biologist Theodor Boveri, written in German by Fritz Baltzer.[8]

Dorothea Rudnick received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952.[9]

Personal life

Rudnick lived a somewhat reclusive personal life[10] in a modern house on a hillside designed in 1956 by architect King-lui Wu.[11] She died at Los Alamos, New Mexico early in 1990, just before her 93rd birthday.

References

  1. ↑ "Chicago Girl Wins Tribune Contest for Washington Essays" Chicago Daily Tribune (March 19, 1922): 1.
  2. ↑ Ray L. Watterson, Benjamin Harrison Willier, 1890-1972: A Biographical Memoir (National Academy of Sciences 1985): 617.
  3. ↑ Dorothea Rudnick, "Thyroid Forming Potencies of the Early Chic Blastoderm" (University of Chicago 1931).
  4. ↑ "Dorothea Rudnick" in Marilyn Bailey Ogilvey and Joy Dorothy Harvey, eds., The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science (Taylor & Francis 2000): 1135. ISBN 9780415920407
  5. ↑ Dorothea Rudnick and Viktor Hamburger, "On the Identification of Segregated Phenotypes in Progeny from Creeper Fowl Matings" Genetics 25(2)(March 1940): 215-224.
  6. ↑ Sabine Braukman, "On Fate and Specification: Images and Models of Developmental Biology" in Nancy Anderson and Michael Dietrich, eds. The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences (UPNE 2012): 227. ISBN 9781611680447
  7. ↑ Tiffany K. Wayne, "Dorothea Rudnick" in American Women of Science Since 1900 (ABC-Clio 2011): 826-827. ISBN 9781598841589
  8. ↑ Robert Olby, review of Theodor Boveri: Life and Work of a Great Biologist, 1862-1915 by Fritz Baltzer, translated by Dorothea Rudnick (University of California Press 1967) in British Journal for the History of Science 4(4)(December 1969): 412-413.
  9. ↑ "Guggenheim Awards Given to Fourteen" Naugatuck Daily News (April 21, 1952): 5. via Newspapers.com
  10. ↑ Catherine R. Stimpson, "Foreword" in Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger, eds., Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (University of Chicago Press 2001): vii. ISBN 9780226120232
  11. ↑ King-lui Wu, Works and Projects.
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