Doris Edna Fales (October 23, 1902 – December 30, 1992) was an American embryologist and college professor. She was first chair of the chemistry and biology department at Richmond Professional Institute, the School of Applied Sciences, from 1943 to 1952.
Doris E. Fales | |
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 Doris E. Fales, from the 1925 yearbook of Mount Holyoke College | |
| Born | Doris Edna Fales October 23, 1902 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 30, 1992 (age 90) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Embryologist, college professor |
Early life and education
editFales was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the daughter of Almon Lawrence Fales and Edna Mabel Norton Fales. Her father was a civil engineer. Her mother died in 1908, and her father remarried. Fales graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1925, earned a master's degree at Western Reserve University in 1927, and completed doctoral studies in zoology at Yale University in 1931.[1]
Career
editFales was a professor at the Richmond Professional Institute from 1932 to 1952,[2][3] and from 1943 to 1953 she was the first chair of the institute's School of Applied Sciences.[4][5]
In 1940, Fales and her partner Anna Kosslow were active with the Richmond chapters of the China Aid Council and the American League for Peace and Democracy, in protesting aid to Japan.[6][7] In retirement, she and Kosslow lived in Maine, making, exhibiting, and selling driftwood sculptures and lamps.[4][8]
Publications
edit- "The Light Receptive Organs of Certain Barnacles" (1928)[9]
- "Experiments on the development of the pronephros of Amblystoma punctatum" (1935)[10]
- "Differential growth of setae in a megascolescid earthworm, Chilota purcelli" (1937)[11]
- "A study of double hearts produced experimentally in embryos of Amblystoma punctatum" (1946)[12]
Personal life
editFales met her partner, social worker Anna L. Kosslow, in 1932.[4] They lived together in Richmond,[13] and bought a house together in Belfast, Maine, in 1952.[14] By 1954, they were living full time in Maine.[4][8] Fales died in 1992, at the age of 90.
References
edit- ^ American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory. Bowker. 1949. p. 746.
- ^ Richond Professional Institute, Wigwam (1941 yearbook): 20.
- ^ "Dr. Doris Fales Joins 7-Member 'Twenty Year Club' at RPI". The Richmond News Leader. 1952-03-06. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-09-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Pendexter, Faunce (1954-06-05). "Two Ladies Choose Maine Home for a Craftsmanship Endeavor". Sun-Journal. p. 19. Retrieved 2024-09-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hibbs, Henry Horace (2017). "A History of the Richmond Professional Institute : From Its Beginning in 1917 to Its Consolidation with the Medical College of Virginia in 1968 to Form Virginia Commonwealth University". RPI Foundation: 44. doi:10.21974/V4QG9Z.
- ^ "200 Telegrams Protest U.S. Aid to Japan". Richmond Times-Dispatch. 1940-04-07. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rev. W. P. Watkins Heads Peace Unit". Richmond Times-Dispatch. 1939-04-21. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Two Southerners Find Home, and Career on Maine Coast". Portland Press Herald. 1955-05-08. p. 41. Retrieved 2024-09-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Fales, Doris Edna. "The light-receptive organs of certain barnacles" The Biological Bulletin 54(6)(1928): 534-547.
- ^ Fales, Doris E. (November 1935). "Experiments on the development of the pronephros of Amblystoma punctatum". Journal of Experimental Zoology. 72 (1): 147–173. doi:10.1002/jez.1400720108. ISSN 0022-104X.
- ^ Fales, Doris E. (February 1937). "Differential growth of setae in a megascolescid earthworm, Chilota purcelli". Journal of Experimental Zoology. 75 (2): 245–258. doi:10.1002/jez.1400750205. ISSN 0022-104X.
- ^ Fales, Doris E. (April 1946). "A study of double hearts produced experimentally in embryos of Amblystoma punctatum". Journal of Experimental Zoology. 101 (3): 281–298. doi:10.1002/jez.1401010302. ISSN 0022-104X.
- ^ Fales is listed as Kosslow's partner in the 1940 federal census; Kosslow is listed as Fales' partner in the 1950 federal census; via Ancestry.
- ^ "News Briefs from Belfast". The Bangor Daily News. 1952-06-26. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-09-27 – via Newspapers.com.