Mildred Trotter

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Mildred Trotter

Mildred Trotter (* 3. February 1899 in Monaca , † 23. August 1991 in St. Louis ) was a US - American anthropologist .

Life

Trotter studied zoology and physiology at Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1920 with a Bachelor of Arts . She then worked as a scientist in the anatomy school of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis . In 1921 she obtained her master’s degree, received her doctorate in anatomy in 1924 and then worked as a lecturer in anatomy. In 1925/26 she was able to work with Arthur Thomson at Oxford University with a National Research Council Fellowship in physical anthropology . The result of this period was the essay The Moveable Segments of the Vertebral Column in Old Egyptians .

In 1926 she returned to the Washington University School of Medicine and became a research assistant to Robert J. Terry . Four years later she became an associate professor. It was not until 1946 that she became a full professor at the Chair of Macroscopic Anatomy , making it the first woman at Washington University in this position.

In 1948 Trotter worked 14 months for the US Army's Graves Registration Service at the Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, where he carried out the identification of fallen soldiers. In 1951 she helped the US Army for three months in the Philippines.

In 1952, together with Goldine C. Gleser , Trotter developed a formula for calculating human height based on long bones. This formula is still used today.

In 1958 Trotter became a professor for anatomy and held this position until her retirement in 1967. She continued to teach and research until 1984. Between 1926 and 1967 she trained around 4,000 students, including Nobel Prize winners Earl Wilbur Sutherland and Daniel Nathans .

Trotter was a founding member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and was its president from 1955 to 1957. She was also Chair of the Missouri State Anatomical Board from 1957 to 1967 and President of the St. Louis Anatomical Board from 1941 to 1948 and 1949 to 1967.

Honors

Trotter received honorary degrees from the Western College for Women in 1956, Mt. Holyoke College in 1960, and Washington University in 1980. In 1956 she received the Viking Fund Medal for Physical Anthropology from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

The American Association of Physical Anthropologists annually awards the Mildred Trotter Prize for outstanding student work in the field of physical anthropology.

Fonts (selection)

  • with OH Duggins: Hairs . In: VM Emmel & EV Cowdty (Eds.): Laboratory techniques in biology and medicine . Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore 1964, pp. 195-196
  • with GC Gleser: The effect of aging on stature . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 9, 1951, pp. 311-324
  • with GC Gleser: Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 10, 1952, pp. 463-514
  • with RR Peterson: Ash weight of human skeletons in percent of the dry, fat-free weight . Anatomical Record 123, 1955, pp. 341-368
  • with TD Stewart: Role of physical anthropology in the field of human identification . Science 122, 1955, pp. 883-884
  • with BB Hixon and B. J MacDonald: Development and size of the teeth of Macaca mulatta . American Journal of Anatomy 150, 1977, pp. 109-127
  • with RR Peterson: Weight of the skeleton during postnatal development . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 33, 1970, pp. 313-323

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert C. Williams: The forensic historian: using science to reexamine the past . ME Sharpe, Armonk 2013, pp. Xi-xiii | ( Online at Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Women in Health Sciences - Biographies: Mildred Trotter (1899–1991) , Bernard Becker Medical Library Digital Collection, 2009
  3. ↑ a b c d Mildred Trotter (1899-1991)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Washington University School of Medicine@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / beckerexhibits.wustl.edu  
  4. ↑ Steven N. Byers: Introduction to forensic anthropology . Pearson Education, Harlow 2011, p. 490 ff. ( Online at Google Books )
  5. ^ Mildred Trotter, Goldine C. Gleser: Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes . American Journal of Physical Anthropology |, December 1952, Volume 10, No. 4 |, pp. 463–514 ( doi : 10.1002 / ajpa.1330100407 )
  6. ↑ Mildred Trotter, Goldine C. Gleser: A re-evaluation of estimation of stature based on measurements of stature taken during life and of long bones after death . American Journal of Physical Anthropology, March 1958, Volume 16, No. 1, pp. 79–123 ( doi : 10.1002 / ajpa.1330160106 )
  7. ↑ E. Hagen: The Mildred Trotter Prize ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , American Association of Physical Anthropologists , June 2, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / physanth.org
personal data
SURNAME Trotter, Mildred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Monaca
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1991
Place of death St. Louis