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Libbie Henrietta Hyman

full name: Libbie Henrietta Hyman
name as it appears in literature list: Hyman LH
foreign spelling in taxonomic list:
year of birth: 1888
year of death: 1969
research specialty: Zoologist
notes/comments: - Professor C.F.A. Pantin said of her invertebrate textbook, after quoting Boswell, "What Boswell there says of Dr. Johnson's great Dictionary we can today say quite truly of Dr. Hyman's textbook of the invertebrate animal kingdom. Whole academies in more than one country have attempted to do what she has done. The debt of every zoologist to her is immense."

- Linnean Society Gold Medal

- Gold Medal of the American Museum of Natural History
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details Dec 30, 2013 Wikipedia Libbie Hyman   Web site[stable]
details Dec 30, 2013 National Academy of Sciences. Libbie Hyman 1888-1969. A Biographical Memoire by Libbie Hyman and Evelyn Hutchinson PDF available on-line. Copyright 1991. Web site[stable]
details 1999 Winston JE Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions. Judith E. Winston, Ed. [papers from 1991 Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Atlanta, Georgia]      
details 1991 Winston JE Great invertebrate biologists: Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969).      
details 1991 Hyman LH, Hutchinson GE Libbie Henrietta Hyman, December 6, 1888-August 3, 1969.      
details 1999 Landman NH, Winston JE Study of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History. In: Winston, JE (Ed) Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions.      
details 1999 Winston JE Libbie Hyman and the American Museum of Natural History. In: Winston, JE (Ed) Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions.      
details 1999 Maienschein J Libbie Hyman at the University of Chicago. In: Winston, JE (Ed) Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions.      
details 1999 Wake MH Libbie Hyman and Comparitive Vertebrate Anatomy. In: Winston, JE (Ed) Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions.      
details 1999 Ogren RE Contributions of Libbie H. Hyman to Knowlege of Land Planarians: Relating Personal Experiences (Tricladida: Terricola). In: Winston, JE (Ed) Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions.      
details 1999 Morse MP Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Her Influence on Teaching and Research in Invertebrate Zoology. In: Winston, JE (Ed) Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions.      
details 1999 Tyler S Systematics of the flatworms--Libbie Hyman's influence on current views of the Platyhelminthes. In: Winston, JE (Ed) Libbie Henrietta Hyman: Life and Contributions.      
details 1970 Stunkard HW Dr. Libbie Henrietta Hyman.      
details 1974 Stunkard HW In memoriam, Libbie Henrietta Hyman, 1888-1969. In: Riser, NW & MP Morse (eds), Biology of the Turbellaria.      
details 1943 Yost E American Women of Science. Biographical information.