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Sara Bache-Wiig
A young white woman with blond hair arranged across her forehead, wearing a white collared blouse
Sara Bache Wiig, from the 1918 Smith College yearbook
BornOctober 4, 1894
Bøn, Norway
DiedSeptember 9, 1971
Occupation(s)Mycologist, botany professor
RelativesJens Bache-Wiig (uncle)

Sara Bache-Wiig (October 4, 1894 – September 9, 1971) was a Norwegian-born American mycologist and botany professor.

Early life and education

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Bache-Wiig was born in Bøn, Norway, the daughter of Carl Bache-Wiig and Bertha Myher Bache-Wiig.[1][2] Her father was a chemical engineer.[3] Her uncle was engineer Jens Bache-Wiig. She graduated from Smith College in 1918,[4][5] and earned a master's degree in plant pathology at Cornell University in 1919,[4] with a thesis titled "The Graftage of Fruit Trees".[6] She pursued further studies in Paris in the 1920s, and she completed doctoral studies at Cornell in 1939[7] under advisor Harry Morton Fitzpatrick.[8]

Career

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Bache-Wiig taught botany at Smith College for 41 years,[9][10] chaired the department twice, and was acting curator of the school's herbarium in 1948.[11] Her professional publications included "Contributions to the Life History of a System Fungous Parasite, Cryptomycina Pteridis" (1939),[12] "Further Notes on Cryptomycina Pteridis" (1952),[13] and "The Fungistatic Barrier Effect of "S-Coated" Cotton Used as Vial Plugs" (1954),[14] which all appeared in the journal Mycologia.

Bache-Wiig also wrote poems "A Jester", "Morning", and "Unscientific Investigation", for the Smith College Monthly.[15][16][17] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Consumers League,[18] the American Association of University Professors,[19] the American Society of Plant Taxonomists,[20] and of the Mycological Society of America.[21]

Personal life

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Bache-Wiig died in 1971, aged 76 years.

References

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  1. ^ "John Bache-Wiig Chief of Benefits in MESC, Dies". The Bangor Daily News. 1954-01-14. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Three Bache-Wiigs in U. S. Service". The Post-Star. 1918-09-24. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Carl Bache-Wiig". Paper Trade Journal. 75: 53. August 24, 1922 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ a b "University Fellowships". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, NY. April 28, 1931. p. 9. Retrieved January 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ Smith College, Class of 1918 (1918 yearbook): 20. via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ "Advanced Degrees". The Register: 244. 1919.
  7. ^ "University Gives 294 Degrees During Summer". Ithaca Cornell Daily Sun. December 1, 1939. p. 5. Retrieved October 13, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  8. ^ American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory. Bowker. 1949. p. 90.
  9. ^ Blakeslee, Albert F. (December 1, 1944). "Smith College Conference on Plant Embryo Culture". Science. 100 (2605): 497–498. Bibcode:1944Sci...100..497B. doi:10.1126/science.100.2605.497. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17734191.
  10. ^ Rossiter, Margaret W. (1998-09-29). Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. JHU Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-8018-5711-9.
  11. ^ Jones, George Neville; Meadows, Edna (November 1948). "Principal Institutional Herbaria of the United States". American Midland Naturalist. 40 (3): 735. doi:10.2307/2421492. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2421492.
  12. ^ Bache-Wiig, Sara (1939). Contributions to the Life History of a Systematic Fungous Parasite, Cryptomycina Pteridis (Rebent. Ex Fr.) V. Höhn., on the Bracken. Cornell University.
  13. ^ Bache-Wiig, Sara (1952-09-01). "Further Notes on Cryptomycina Pteridis". Mycologia. 44 (5): 705–708. doi:10.1080/00275514.1952.12024228. ISSN 0027-5514.
  14. ^ Bache-Wiig, Sara (1954). "The Fungistatic Barrier Effect of "S-Coated" Cotton Used as Vial Plugs". Mycologia. 46 (4): 457–462. doi:10.1080/00275514.1954.12024385. ISSN 0027-5514. JSTOR 4547846.
  15. ^ Bache-Wiig, Sara (June 1918). "A Jester". The Smith College Monthly. 25: 466.
  16. ^ Bache-Wiig, Sara (June 1918). "Morning". Smith College Monthly. 25: 482.
  17. ^ Bache-Wiig, Sara (November 1917). "Unscientific Investigation". The Smith College Monthly. 25: 90.
  18. ^ National Consumers' League. Report. p. 76.
  19. ^ American Association of University Professors (1940). Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. The Association. p. 554.
  20. ^ Schuurman, J. A. (1962). "News and Notes". Taxon. 11 (2): 57–60. doi:10.1002/j.1996-8175.1962.tb00011.x. ISSN 0040-0262. JSTOR 1217213.
  21. ^ "Mycological Society of America". Mycologia. 39 (6): 745–770. 1947. doi:10.1080/00275514.1947.12017652. ISSN 0027-5514. JSTOR 3755227.
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