Elsie Kupfer

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Elsie Mabel Kupfer (September 5, 1877 - May 15, 1974)[ citation needed ] was a German American botanist and mycologist. [1]

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Elsie Kupfer
BornSeptember 5, 1877 (1877-09-05)
Bayreuth, Kingdom of Bavaria
DiedMay 15, 1974 (1974-05-16) (aged 96)
New York, New York
Alma mater Columbia University
Scientific career
Thesis Studies in plant regeneration  (1907)

Life

In 1899, Kupfer graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and then in 1901 with a Master of Science, both from Columbia University. She worked as a teacher at Wadleigh High School for Girls in New York. [2] In 1907, she received her doctorate from Columbia with a thesis entitled "Studies in Plant Regeneration." [3] She was a member of the Torrey Botanical Club and the New York Biology Teachers' Association. [4]

As a Ph.D. student under the mentorship of Lucien Marcus Underwood, Kupfer reviewed the 1896 findings of German mycologist Heinrich Rehm. She proposed that Rehm’s transfer of Urnula craterium to Geopyxis be reversed, and Fries’ original classification be restored. Additionally, she determined that the fungal specimen collected by Underwood in 1893 and which Charles Horton Peck called Urnula geaster, be placed in a new genus, which she named Chorioactis . [5]

The standard author abbreviation Kupfer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [6]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries" . Retrieved 2019-08-23.
  2. ↑ Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. Lancaster, Pa. : Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co. 1900.
  3. ↑ Kupfer, Elsie Mabel (1907). Studies in plant regeneration. Wellesley College Library. New York : [s.n.]
  4. ↑ Kupfer, Dr. Elsie M(abel). In: American Men of Science: a Biographical Directory. 5. Bowker, New York 1933.
  5. ↑ Kupfer, Elsie M. (1902). "Studies on Urnula and Geopyxis". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 29 (3): 137–144. doi:10.2307/2478861. ISSN   0040-9618. JSTOR   2478861.
  6. ↑ International Plant Names Index. Kupfer.
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