Edith Grace White (May 16, 1890 – December 1, 1975) was an American zoologist known for her studies of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). She was a professor of biology at Wilson College, and was a research associate of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
White was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1890.[1][2] She earned a bachelor's degree at Mount Holyoke College. She went on to Columbia University for her graduate education, receiving an AM in 1913, and a PhD in 1918.[3] Her thesis was titled The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus.[2]
White, Edith Grace (1946). A textbook of general biology (3rd ed.). St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company. 1st ed. (1933) and 2nd ed. (1937) with same publisher.[5]
White, Edith Grace (1962). Genetics (2nd ed.). New York: Vantage Press. Revised edition of Principles of Genetics, published by C.V. Mosby.
^ abcdBrown, Patricia Stocking (1994). "Early women ichthyologists". In Balon, Eugene K.; Bruton, Michael N.; Noakes, David L.G. (eds.). Women in Ichthyology: An Anthology in Honour of ET, Ro and Genie. Springer Science + Business Media, B.V. pp. 9–33. ISBN9789401101998.
^Glass, Bentley (1947). "A Textbook of General Biology. E. Grace White (review of 3rd ed.)". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 22 (2). University of Chicago Press: 143. doi:10.1086/395704. ISSN0033-5770.
