Jane M. Oppenheimer
Jane M. Oppenheimer | |
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Born | September 19, 1911 Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. |
Died | March 19, 1996 | (aged 84)
Alma mater | History of Science |
Institutions | Bryn Mawr College (1938-1980) |
Doctoral advisor | John Spangler Nicholas |
Jane Marion Oppenheimer (1911–1996) was an American
Early life, interests, and education
Oppenheimer was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James H. Oppenheimer and Sylvia Stern. Her father, a physician, encouraged physical activity: sports at school and a personalized exercise regimen at home. She was tutored in French and piano, and developed a love of classical music, fine food, and travel.[1] Oppenheimer's interests in Art were eclectic. The collection she donated to Bryn Mawr includes jade, ivory, and bronze objects, landscape watercolors, and etchings by Pablo Picasso, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin, and Leonard Baskin.[2]
Oppenheimer graduated from
Teaching
In 1937, Oppenheimer served as a Research Fellow at
Oppenheimer retired in 1980 as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology and History of Science, but returned to Bryn Mawr as a visiting professor from 1983 to 1984.
Embryology
Oppenheimer's experimental career grew from her graduate work with Fundulus heteroclitus, and she made significant contributions to teleost embryology. She was particularly interested in questions of inductions, differentiation capabilities, and regulation. Seven early papers were based upon grafting experiments and demonstrated that the dorsal lips of fish and amphibian embryos showed the same organizer activity. Oppenheimer also performed fate mapping experiments, described cell movements of gastrulation, and published a staging series for Fundulus embryos.[8]
Oppenheimer designed one of the four American experiments performed in the 1975
History of science
Oppenheimer's work in the field included Essays in the History of Embryology and Biology (1967), which focused largely on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but ventured as far back as the sixteenth.[10] She also wrote biographical studies of Karl E. von Baer, Curt Herbst, and Ross Harrison. Her areas of particular interest included the relationship of embryological data to evolutionary theory and early physiological and surgical discoveries.[11]
Editing
As editor or member of the editorial board, Oppenheimer was involved with American Zoologist, Biological Abstracts, Excerpta Medica, Journal of Morphology, Journal of the History of Biology, and Quarterly Review of Biology.[12]
Awards and honors
Oppenheimer was awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal (Yale Graduate Alumni Association), Otto H. Hafner Award (American Association of the History of Medicine and the Medical Library Association), Kosmos Achievement Award (U.S.S.R.), Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching,
Oppenheimer belonged to many scholarly societies, including the
Footnotes
- ^ Margaret Hollyday, "Oppenheimer, Jane Marion," Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century, Vol. 5, Susan Ware, ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), Google Books (accessed 13 February 2015), 487.
- ^ Carol W. Campbell, "Professor Emeritus Jane M. Oppenheimer's Legacy Features in the Lois and Reginald Collier Science Library," Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter No. 1, May 1997, http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/mirabile/mirabile1/oppenheimer.html (accessed 13 February 2015).
- ^ Margaret Hollyday, "Jane Marion Oppenheimer, 1911-1996," Society for Developmental Biology website, http://www.sdbonline.org/sites/archive/SDBMembership/Oppenheimer.html (accessed 13 February 2015).
- ^ Kimberly A. Buettner, "Jane Marion Oppenheimer," The Embryo Project Encyclopedia, http://embryo.asu.edu/pages/jane-marion-oppenheimer (accessed 13 February 2015).
- Margaret Rossiter, eds. (Routledge, 2003), Google Books(accessed 14 February 2015), 963-964.
- ^ Buettner.
- PMID 11620078.
- ^ Hollyday, SDB; McPherson, 289-90.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
- PMC 1033989.
- ^ McPherson, 290.
- ^ McPherson, 290-1.
- ^ McPherson, 289-90.
- ^ "Jane Marion Oppenheimer (1911-1996)". Society of Developmental Biology. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ McPherson, 291.