Evelyn Joyce Weber was born on Nov. 9, 1928, in Tower Hill, IL. She was the daughter of John Weber and Emma Schoch Weber.[1]
Dr. Weber graduated from Pana High School and then attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she received her BS in Chemistry in 1952. She continued at Illinois as a research assistant in plant lipid research before going on to complete her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Iowa State University. She then returned to Illinois as a research associate in biochemistry. In 1965, she became the University of Illinois' first woman in the Agronomy Department. Evelyn was a Professor of Plant Biochemistry from 1965 to 1987, and throughout most of her career she was the only woman in the faculty of that department. She retired in 1987 as a biochemist under a joint appointment from the U of I and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as well as a professor emerita in the agronomy department and a freelance editor and biochemical consultant.[2][3][4][5][6]
Her papers are held at University of Illinois Archives.[7] She also has a paver in her honor in the Plaza of Heroines at Iowa State University (paver:22 and D:6 on the map).[6]
Carter, H. E.; Galanos, D. S.; Gigg, R. H.; Law, J. H.; Nakayama, T.; Smith, D. B., D. B.; Weber, E. J. (1957). "Sphingolipides". Federation Proceedings. 16 (3): 817–824. PMID13480365.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Hearn, W. R.; Weber, E. J.; Randolph, P. W.; Barks, N. E. (1961). "Corticotropin Releasing Activity of Synthetic Lysine Vasopressin". Experimental Biology and Medicine. 107 (3). SAGE Publications: 515–517. doi:10.3181/00379727-107-26672. ISSN1535-3702. PMID13712598. S2CID31921962.
De La Roche, I. A.; Weber, E. J.; Alexander, D. E. (1971). "The selective utilization of diglyceride species into maize triglycerides". Lipids. 6 (8). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 537–540. doi:10.1007/BF02531132. ISSN0024-4201. PMID27519512. S2CID4043278.
Weber, E. J. (1980). "Corn Kernel Modification". In Swain, T.; Kleiman, R. (eds.). The Resource Potential in Phytochemistry. Springer US. pp.97–137. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-8309-3_5. ISBN978-1-4684-8309-3.