Evelyn Hodes Wilson
American biochemist
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Evelyn Ash Hodes Wilson (October 8, 1921 – March 16, 2001) was an American biochemist, college professor, and university administrator.
October 8, 1921
Evelyn Hodes Wilson | |
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Evelyn Hodes, from a 1942 yearbook | |
| Born | Evelyn Ash Hodes October 8, 1921 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | March 16, 2001 (aged 79) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Occupations | Biochemist, college professor |
| Relatives | Horace Hodes (brother) |
Early life and education
Evelyn Ash Hodes was born in Philadelphia, the youngest child and only daughter of Morris Hodes and Anna Jacobsen Hodes.[1] Her family was Jewish. One of her five brothers was pediatrician and medical researcher Horace Hodes.[2] Another brother, Robert Hodes, was a neurophysiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital.[3]
She graduated from West Philadelphia High School in 1938.[4] In 1942, she earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Bryn Mawr College.[5][6] Wilson was married when she completed her PhD in biology at Radcliffe College, with a dissertation on antimalarials.[7] Her dissertation won the Caroline Wilby Prize for 1946.[8]
Career
Wilson was a researcher at Merck after completing doctoral studies, and did research there towards the development of prednisone. At Merck she co-authored articles with Max Tishler, Louis Fieser, Huang Minlon, and others.[9][10][11][12] She was a senior chemist at Johnson & Johnson from 1953 to 1959.[4][13]
Wilson taught science in the local high schools in Highland Park and Westfield, and in 1960 earned a teaching certificate at Rutgers University.[4] She was appointed chair of the science department at New Brunswick High School in the 1965.[13] Beginning in 1972, Wilson was on the faculty of Rutgers;[14] she was an associate professor of education,[15] and taught and studied science pedagogy.[16][17]
Wilson active the League of Women Voters of Highland Park.[18] In 1987, she was named chair of the education task force for New Brunswick Tomorrow.[19] She was associate vice-president for budget and planning at Rutgers when she retired in 1991.[4]
Publications
Chemistry
- "Nitrogen Mustards" (1951, with Max Tishler)[10]
- "The Conversion of Cholic Acid into 3α-Hydroxy-12-keto-Δ9(11)-cholenic Acid" (1951, with Louis F. Fieser, Srinivasa Rajagopalan, and Max Tishler)[9]
- "Steroid 17(α)-Acetates" (1952, with Huang Minlon, N. L. Wendler, and Max Tishler)[12]
- "Synthesis of Δ1-Allopregnene-17α,21-diol-3,11,20-trione-21-acetate" (1952, with Max Tishler)[20]
- "Pantothenic Acid Salts" (1954, with John Weijlard and Max Tishler)[11]
Science education
Personal life and legacy
Evelyn Hodes married Harvard chemist Armin G. Wilson in 1943. They had a son, Jonathan. She died in 2001, aged 79 years, at a hospital in Philadelphia.[4] Soka University of America offers an Evelyn Hodes Wilson scholarship, named in her memory.[21]