Helen Foot Buell

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Helen Foot Buell
BornDecember 22, 1901
Kalispell, Montana
DiedFebruary 21, 1995 (1995-02-22) (aged 93)
Somerset, New Jersey
OccupationBotanist
Spouse Murray Fife Buell

Helen Foot Buell (December 22, 1901 – February 21, 1995) [1] was an American botanist, algologist, [2] ecologist, and editor.

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Early life and education

Helen Foot was born in Kalispell, Montana, the daughter of Charles Henry Foot and Theresa M. Polley Foot. Both of her parents were born in Minnesota; her father was a lawyer. [3] She graduated from Flathead County High School, [4] and completed a Ph.D. in Phycology at the University of Minnesota in 1938, [2] funded in part with a fellowship from the American Association of University Women. [5]

Career

Helen Buell and her husband Murray Buell often worked as a team. [6] They were fellow ecologists and often made publications together. She held an appointment as a teaching assistant at Rutgers University, where her husband was a professor. [7]

Personal life and legacy

Helen Foot married Murray Fife Buell in 1932, while they were graduate students in Minnesota. [8] [9] They had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Honor, both born in North Carolina. He died in 1975; [10] she died in 1995, aged 93 years. After their death, their legacy lives on through the Murray and Helen Buell Scholarship [11] [2] in Ecology at Rutgers University. Housing at the Rutgers business school is also named for the Buells. [12] [13]

Publications

Buell's publications include: [14]

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  2. 1 2 3 SL White (June 27, 2016). "Helen Foot Buell, a Quiet Partner". Ecological Society of America.
  3. ↑ "Obituary: Charles Henry Foot". The Daily Inter Lake. 1942-05-26. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-08-20– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Miss Helen Foot Bride of Murray F. Buell". The Daily Inter Lake. 1932-09-12. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-08-20– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Club Here Would Fete 'U' Women". The Minneapolis Star. 1926-05-11. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-08-20– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ F. Herbert Bormann & Paul G. Pearson (December 1975). "Murray Fife Buell, 1906-1975" (PDF). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 56 (4): 26. doi:10.2307/20166056. JSTOR   20166056. S2CID   161213797.
  7. ↑ "Three Are Appointed to Staff Jobs at Rutgers University". The Central New Jersey Home News. 1957-11-13. p. 22. Retrieved 2021-08-20– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Forman, Richard (2012-12-02). Pine Barrens: Ecosystem and Landscape. Elsevier. pp. xxxiii. ISBN   978-0-323-14408-7.
  9. ↑ "Marriage License Applications". Star Tribune. 1932-08-18. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-08-20– via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "DR. MURRAY BUELL, RUTGERS BOTANIST". The New York Times. 1975-07-05. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  11. ↑ "2020 Awards & Scholarships" (PDF). sebs.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  12. ↑ "Rutgers opens up new business school". Asbury Park Press. 1986-08-31. p. 153. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  13. ↑ Rearick, John (1986-08-24). "Rutgers Report: Rutgers as Innkeeper". The Central New Jersey Home News. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-08-20– via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Helen Foot Buell". Semantic Scholar.
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