Background
Bennett, Dorothea was born on December 27, 1929 in Honolulu. Daughter of James William and Anna Marie (Schorling) Bennett.
Bennett, Dorothea was born on December 27, 1929 in Honolulu. Daughter of James William and Anna Marie (Schorling) Bennett.
Bachelor, Barnard College, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1956. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Uppsala (Sweden) University.
She was "one of the major figures in mouse developmental genetics". She earned a bachelor"s degree from Barnard College in 1951 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1956. She was in the Department of Zoology at Columbia from 1956 to 1962, where she worked with L. C. Dunn.
Bennett left to join Cornell University Medical College in 1962, where she remained until 1976.
From 1976 to 1986 she was at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Bennett moved to the University of Texas in Austin in 1986, where she was the Alfred West. Roark Centennial Professor and chair of the zoology department, and helped establish the graduate program in molecular biology.
She died of lymphoma in Texas, August 16, 1990. World War II "Dorothea Bennett, 60, Geneticist and Teacher" (obituary), New York Times, August
18, 1990. "In Memoriam: Dorothea Bennett", University of Texas (1990) Karen Artzt, "In Memoriam Dorothea Bennett 1929-1990", Immunogenetics, v.33, n.1 (1991), pp.
1–3. DOI 10.1007/BF00211688 Theodosius Dobzhansky, Leslie Clarence Dunn, 1893-1974: A Biographical Memoir (National Academy of Sciences 1978) (significant discussion of L C Dunn"s and Dorothea Bennett"s collaborations) Lee M. Silver, "In Memoriam: Dorothea Bennett, 1929-1990", Mammalian Genome, v.1, n.2 (1991), pp. 69–70. DOI 10.1007/BF02443780 "Obituaries", The Scientist Magazine, September
17, 1990. Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science.