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Cora Jipson Beckwith

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Beckwith's teaching career at Vassar College began when she was appointed an assistant professor in 1900. She was later named a full professor and was chair of the zoology department when she retired in 1940. Later she became a Professor Emeritus, known for her teaching of histology, embryology and
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After Beckwith retired from teaching, she remained at Vassar for ten years, continuing her residency in Williams Hall, where she looked after the students living there. In 1950, she moved to Washington, D.C. to live with her two sisters who were already there. She died 9 January 1955 in
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Beckwith, Cora Jipson (1927-10-01). "The effect of the extirpation of the lens rudiment on the development of the eye in Amblystoma punctatum, with special reference to the choroid fissure".
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The effect of the extirpation of the lens rudiment on the development of the eye in Amblystoma punctatum, with special reference to the choroid fissure
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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century, Volume 1
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Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada
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Beckwith, Cora J. (1907-01-01). "The Early Development of the Lateral Line System of Amia Calva".
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and the lateral cell lines of these bony fish. She also worked on the cytology of the
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Preliminary Report on the Early History of the Egg and Embryon of Certain Hydroids
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She began her Vassar College teaching career in 1900 after her graduation from
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The genesis of the plasma-structure in the egg of Hydractinia echinata
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in New York City in 1908, and her PhD, also from Columbia, in 1914.
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The Early Development of the Lateral Line System of Amia Calva
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where "in her younger days she had spent many summers."
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Michigan State University
Columbia University
zoologist
Vassar College
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Michigan State University
Columbia University
cytology
bowfin (Amia calva)
germ cells
hydroids
Biological Bulletin
Washington, D.C.
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole
Massachusetts
Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey
Harvey, Joy
The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century, Volume 1
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978-0415920407




"Beckwith, Cora Jipson, 1875-1955 -- Memorial Minute"


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