bacteriology

oh wow, this is really cool.

A newspaper story about her appeared in the Lebanon (PA) Daily News, Oct 13, 1958: [photo] Joins Staff Dr. Ruby S. Hirose has recently been transferred to the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital as a bacteriologist. Before coming here, she was affiliated with the Ft. Benjamin Harrison Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind., and the VA Hospital at Dayton, Ohio. Born in Kent, WAsh., Dr. Hirose received her college education at the University of Washington, Seattle, and did graduate work at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1932. She first worked in the Biological Division of the William S. Merrill Company in Cincinnati. During the war she was connected with the Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology, University of Cincinnati, a consulting laboratory doing toxicological work. She also taught at the University of Indiana Medical School as an instructor in microbiology and doing research on cancer using antimetabolites. Dr. Hirose is living on the hospital grounds here. Only two years later, her obituary was published in the Lebanon (PA) Daily News, Oct 8, 1960: Dr Ruby Hirose, VA Hospital Chemist, Dies Dr Ruby S Hirose, 54, 1009 S. Kiner St, died on Friday afternoon in the Reading Hospital. She was a member of the Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital staff. Dr Hirose, who previously lived in Dayton, O., was born in Kent, Wash. She held a doctorate in chemistry. Her parents were the late Shiusaku and Tome (Kurai) Hirose. Surviving are two sisters, Mary T. Hirose, Chicago, and Toki, wife of Dr. Isaac Jawasaki, Honolulu; and a brother, Kimeo Hirose, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Thank you for such detailed information, Brenda! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

Share Hirose's legacy with the wonderful women in your life by sending a free ecard featuring her from the Smithsonian Institution Archives: blog.photography.si.edu/2011/03/16/ecards-womens-history-... Catherine Shteynberg Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Her parents were Anna Belle Purmont and George Hempl (1859-1921); George Hempl was a Michigan-born professor of German philology at Stanford University. Her husband was a zoologist, Edmund Heller (1875-1939), who co-wrote a book about Africa with Theodore Roosevelt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Heller At age 60, Hilda Hempl Heller was collecting fish specimens in Peru in 1950-51.

Hi Penny- Unfortunately, as far as I know we don't have any more of Hilda Heller's work on hand (though there are a few snapshots of her in Smithsonian Collections: ). collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=grid&dsort... However, we do have some of Edmund Heller's papers (who you mention above) and a series of photos taken by him while on various expeditions to Alberta and British Columbia, British East Africa, and Peru, as well as the Roosevelt expedition: collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=grid&date.... Thanks for sharing, Catherine Shteynberg Smithsonian Institution Archives

Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_B._Seibert Interested to read that the woman who developed the TB skin test was a polio survivor.

pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) Thank you, Penny! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

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