LC control no. | n 85809869 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Mintz, Beatrice |
Associated place | Iowa City (Iowa) Chicago (Ill.) Philadelphia (Pa.) |
Located | Elkins Park (Pa.) |
Birth date | 1921-01-24 |
Death date | 2022-01-13 |
Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
Place of death | Elkins Park (Pa.) |
Field of activity | Science |
Affiliation | Fox Chase Cancer Center University of Iowa University of Chicago Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Profession or occupation | Scientists |
Found in | LCCN 58-59592: Conference on Environmental Influences on Prenatal Development (1956 : Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory). Environmental influences on prenatal development, c1958 (hdg.: Mintz, Beatrice; usage: Beatrice Mintz) Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 28, 2022 (in obituary dated Jan. 14, 2022: (Beatrice Mintz, a scientist who, in decades of single-minded devotion to her research, produced seminal findings about cancer, how it develops, how it may be treated and the genetics underlying those discoveries, died Jan. 3 at her home in Elkins Park, Pa. She was 100. She had a heart ailment and dementia, said Bob Spallone, her longtime colleague at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Beatrice Mintz was born in New York City on Jan. 24, 1921. Dr. Mintz received a bachelor'sdegree from Hunter College in New York in 1941 before pursuing graduate studies at the University of Iowa, where she received a master's degree in 1944 and a PhD in 1946. She taught at the University of Chicago for 14 years before joining the Institute for Cancer Research, now Fox Chase, in Philadelphia) |