Helen Jean Brown

Helen Jean (Brown) Bromley (9 August 1903, in Beaumont – 16 June 1982, in Stamford) was an American botanist and phycologist noted for her study of the algal family Vaucheriaceae.^[1]^[2] She earned her PhD from Ohio State University, in 1929.^[3] She published using her maiden name, and served as both an instructor of botany and registrar at the University of Connecticut.^[4] She was married to entomologist Stanley Willard Bromley.^[5] The standard author abbreviation H.J.Br. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[6]

Works edit

Brown, Helen Jean (1929). "The Algal Family Vaucheriaceae". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 48 (1): 86–117. doi:10.2307/3222465. ISSN 0003-0023. JSTOR 3222465.
Brown, Helen Jean (1930). "The Desmids of the Southeastern Coastal Plain Region of United States". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 49 (2): 97–139. doi:10.2307/3222306. ISSN 0003-0023. JSTOR 3222306.

^ Howes, Durward (1935). American Women. Richard Blank Publishing Company. p. 85. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
^ Stuckey, Ronald L. (1983). "Necrology - HELEN JEAN (BROWN) BROMLEY (1903-1982)". Ohio Journal of Science. 83: 276.
^ CLARENCE E. TAFT (1973). "Seventy years of Phycology at the Ohio State University" (PDF). Ohio State University: 104. Retrieved 2019-03-08. Helen Jean Brown received her doctorate in phycology in 1929, and soon after became a member of the faculty. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 182–183. ISBN 9780415920407. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
^ Alexander, Charles P. (1 June 1954). "Stanley Willard Bromley (1899–1954)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 47 (2): 375–376. doi:10.1093/aesa/47.2.375.
^ International Plant Names Index. H.J.Br.

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