User:TheBlueWizard/Florence Meier Chase
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| name = Florence E. Meier Chase
| image = Florence E. Meier Chase - A.jpg
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| caption = Florence E. Meier Chase c. 1930
| birth_date = 1902, exact date unknown
| birth_place = Springfield, IL
| death_date = May 6, 1978
| death_place = Manahawkins, NJWashington Post May 12, 1978, page B6
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| nationality = USA
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| alma_mater = University of Geneva
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| known_for = Research on algae
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Florence Meier Chase (1902 - May 6, 1978) was an American botanist who researched the interaction of sunlight and algae at the Smithsonian. Dr. Chase received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.[http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/tragedy-towers-and-romance-smithsonian Tragedy, Towers, and Romance at the Smithsonian] Retrieved on April 21, 2012 She was a research assistant at the botany department at Columbia University before moving to Washington, D.C..
In Washington, she worked for the Smithsonian Institution at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, where she studied photosynthesis. She was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary member of the Washington Botanical Society. She was married to Dr. William Wiley Chase.
Life changing injury
While showing the visitors around in the Smithsonian Castle on February 14, 1937, Dr. Meier stepped back, and forgetting that the trap door was open behind her, fell down through it to the floor below, and broke her back. She was taken to Garfield Memorial Hospital. At the hospital, she would be cared for by Dr. William Wiley Chase, the head of the surgery department. This was the first meeting of the two, whom would eventually marry.
Further reading
;Publications by Florence Meier Chase
- Colonial formation of unicellular green Algae under various light conditions. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1934).
- Cultivating Algae for scientific research. Washington: United State Government Printing Office (1933).
- Effects of intensities and wave lengths of light on unicellular green Algae. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1934).
- Growth of a green alga in isolated wave-length regions. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1936).
- Lethal action of ultra-violet light on a unicellular green alga. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1932).
- Lethal effect of short wave lengths of the ultraviolet on the alga Chlorella vulgaris. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1936).
- The microscopic plant and animal world in ultraviolet light. Washington: United State Government Printing Office (1935).
- Reactions to ultraviolet radiation. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1937)
- Stimulative effect of short wave lengths of the ultraviolet on the alga Stichococcus bacillaris. Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1939).