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Yvette Hardman Edmondson
Born
Yvette Hardman

September 20, 1915
Manhattan, NY
DiedMay 6, 2006
Known foreditor, Limnology and Oceanography
SpouseWalles T. Edmondson
Scientific career
Thesis The influence of solid surfaces upon lake bacteria  (1940)

Yvette Hardman Edmondson (born Yvette Hardman) was the editor of Limnology and Oceanography the premier journal of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (1968 to 1986) and was an aquatic scientist known for her research on bacteria in aquatic systems.

Education and personal life

Edmondson graduated from the Walden School in New York City in 1932.[1] She obtained her undergraduate degree in literature from Bennington College in 1936,[2][3] which was the first class to graduate from Bennington College.[4] In 1938, Edmondson obtained an M.S. in Bacteriology from University of Minnesota and minor in Agricultural Biochemistry with a thesis examining filamentous bacteria in lakes.[5][6] Edmonson then moved to the University of Wisconsin Madison[7] where she worked with Elizabeth McCoy and Perry Wilson.[8] She completed a Ph.D. in Bacteriology in 1940 with a dissertation titled "The influence of solid surfaces upon lake bacteria",[9] research that was later published in the scientific literature.[10][11]

In the first term of her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin Madison, she met Walles T. Edmondson ('Tommy')[12] whom she helped collect rotifers for his research.[13][14] They were married in New Haven on September 26, 1941 while Tommy was working at Yale University.[15]

In 1990, a newsletter from the University of Wisconsin asked Edmondson about the lack of women in sciences in 1930s and 1940s and her response was:

The lack of women in the sciences was not visibly from my point of view. My advisor was a woman and there were three other female graduate students in bacteriology[8]

โ€” Yvette Hardman Edmondson

Career

Following her Ph.D., Edmondson was a teaching fellow in science at Bennington College and she remained there during World War Two.

Kenneth Thimann, Edmondson, and Babette Radner published their work on the production of anthrocyanins by cultures of Spirodela.[21] In 1949, Yvette and her husband moved to Seattle when Tommy took a position at the University of Washington.[8]

Edmondson worked with the ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson[22] and co-authored Hutchinson's final Treatise on Limnology that was published in 1993.[23] In 1971, Edmondson dedicated[24] a special issue of Limnology and Oceanography to the life and accomplishments of G. Evelyn Hutchinson.[25] Edmondson also memorialized Hutchinson in Limnology and Oceanography after his death in 1991.[26]

From 1968 (volume 13) until 1986 (volume 31), Edmondson was the editor of

Robert Paine wrote for the Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin upon the occasion of her death in 2006[27] when he emphasized her contributions to the evolution of the journal, a portion of which she had described in her final issue as editor.[33]

Honors

Reference section

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    ISSN 1536-3538
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  2. ^ "Recommendation of, and Graduates by Group Commencement 1936". Bennington College. 1936. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  3. ^ "Candidates for Graduation Commencement 6-2-1936". Bennington College. 1936-06-02.
  4. ^ "AP Wire about Commencement 1936". Bennington College digital repository. 1936-06-06. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  5. hdl:11299/57555
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  6. PMID 16560191
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  7. ^ Brockway, Thomas P. (1981). Bennington College: In the beginning. Bennington College digital repository: Bennington College Press. p. 193.
  8. ^ a b c d "Following their own paths: Women in UW limnology 1900-1990" (PDF). Limnology News University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1990.
  9. OCLC ocm51491660
  10. PMID 16560191
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  11. ^ Hardman, Yvette (1941). "The surface tension of Wisconsin lake waters". Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. XXXIII: 395โ€“404 – via The State of Wisconsin Collection.
  12. ^ a b c Lehman, John T.; Lehman, Donna A. (2009). W. T. Edmondson (1916-2000). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
  13. OCLC 712777685
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  14. JSTOR 3222991
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  15. ^ "College Week". Bennington College. 1941-09-30. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  16. ^ "General Announcements - Mentions Karl Polanyi" (Press release). Bennington College. 1941-02-24.
  17. ^ "Report on Faculty Teaching Load as of November 16, 1942". Bennington College. 1942-11-16.
  18. JSTOR 1673298
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  19. ^ Edmondson, W.T.; Edmondston, Yvette H. (1947). "Measurements Of Production In Fertilized Salt-Water". Journal of Marine Research. 3 (6): 228โ€“246.
  20. ^ The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution report for the year 1937 (Report). Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 1938.
  21. PMID 14904067
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  22. ISBN 9780123706263
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  23. OCLC 271888.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  24. ISBN 978-1-4008-4311-4
  25. JSTOR i330557
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  26. ISSN 1939-5590
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  27. ^
    S2CID 189312155
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  28. ISSN 1939-5590
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  29. ISSN 1939-5590
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  30. ISSN 1939-5590
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  31. doi:10.4319/lo.1984.29.5.1145
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  32. OCLC 897816613
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  33. ISSN 1939-5590
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  34. ^ "Tommy and Yvette Edmondson Distinguished Service Award". ASLO. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  35. ^ "Make a gift". Give to the UW. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  36. ^ "Bennington honors seven alumnae". North Adams Transcript. North Adams, Massachusetts. May 14, 1979.

External links

  • Photo of Yvette Hardman in Bennington College's collection of entering students (1932-1939)[1]
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