Libbie Henrietta Hyman

Libbie Henrietta Hyman (born December 6, 1888 in Des Moines , Iowa , † August 3, 1969 in New York City ) was an American zoologist .

Live and act

Hyman's father Joseph Hyman came from Poland / Ukraine , her mother Sabina ("Bena") Neumann was German, she came from Stettin . She grew up in poor conditions. Hyman received her Ph. D. in 1915 from the University of Chicago in Illinois . Then she researched from 1916 to 1931 at the same university with the zoologist Charles Manning Child . A research focus during this time were flatworms . From 1937 until her death in 1969 she held an honorary research appointment at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

From 1959 to 1963, Hyman was the editor of Systematic Zoology . In 1959 she was president of the Society of Systematic Zoology . In 1960 she was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London . Also in 1960 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1961 to the National Academy of Sciences , which she had awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1951 . She received a "Gold Medal Award" from the American Museum of Natural History .

Works

Hyman's most comprehensive work was the six-volume The Invertebrates (1940–1968), of which individual volumes were still unfinished at her death. Her Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology (1919) and A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (1922) were widely used. Here is a selection of her works:

A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology . 1919.
A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Zoology . 1922.
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy . 1942.
The invertebrates . (6 volumes, 1940–1968).

Web links

Libbie Henrietta Hyman. In: Biographic Memoirs. Vol. 60, 1991, National Academies Press, USA (English)
Libbie Henrietta Hyman. Entry in the online version of the Encyclopædia Britannica (English)
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969). Short entry at the Jewish Virtual Library (English)

Individual evidence

^ Biographical Memoirs. Volume 60 Cover National Academy of Sciences, Office of the Home Secretary National Academies Press, 1991, ISBN 0-309-044-421 , pp. 103 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Hyman, Libbie Henrietta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Des Moines , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH	3rd August 1969
Place of death	New York City

[1] Biographical Memoirs. Volume 60 Cover National Academy of Sciences, Office of the Home Secretary National Academies Press, 1991, ISBN 0-309-044-421 , pp. 103 f.