Adele Gerard Lewis Grant

Adele Gerard Lewis Grant (June 3, 1881 - June 19, 1969) was an American feminist, botanist, teacher, taxonomist, curator, and explorer.

Career

In 1903, she obtained a B.Sc. in botany from the University of California at Berkeley. She continued with her studies, gaining an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in botany from Washington State University. Before her move to South Africa, she taught at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Cornell University.

At Cornell, she started and served as the first president for the Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women's Scientific Fraternity.

In 1925, she moved to South Africa to teach botany at the Huguenot Faculty in Wellington, South Africa, while collecting plants in countries such as Congo, Democratic Republic, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

She returned to the United States in 1930, returning also to the Missouri Botanical Garden. She then moved to continue her research at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her specific focus included genera Mimulus and Hemimeris L.

Honors

1901: Co-founded the Prytanean Society with Agnes Frisius on the campus of the University of Berkeley, with advisor Mary Bennett Ritter The Sigma Delta Epsilon Adele Lewis Grant Fellowship was named in her honor.

References

Cornell University faculty

1881 births

1969 deaths

University of California, Berkeley alumni

Place of birth missing

Place of death missing

20th-century American botanists

American women botanists

American botanists

Washington State University alumni

Missouri Botanical Garden people

University of California, Los Angeles staff

American women academics

20th-century American women scientists