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Edith Grace White

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White was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1890. She earned a bachelor's degree at Mount Holyoke College. She went on to Columbia University for her graduate education, receiving an AM in 1913, and a PhD in 1918. Her thesis was titled The origin of the electric organs in Astroscopus guttatus.

After a short time in positions at Heidelberg College and Shorter College, White moved to Wilson College in 1923, where she worked as a professor until 1958. She also continued to do research at the American Museum of Natural History, where she had a position as research associate from the mid-1930s until 1947.

White published widely used textbooks on genetics and on general biology.

White died on December 1, 1975, in a nursing home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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