Edith Sproul

Background

Edith E. Sproul was born in 1907 in Passaic, New Jersey.

Education

She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1927, followed by Columbia"s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1931.

Career

October 17, 1907 – January 19, 1999) was an American pathologist whose work with Georgios Papanikolaou of the Cornell University Medical School in New York led to the development of the pap smear. Sproul described the relationship between thrombophlebitis and pancreatic cancer and characteristics of early prostatic cancer. She remained at Columbia for twelve years and was promoted to the position of associate professor before her departure in 1946.

She then moved to the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, where she was appointed full professor and served as acting chair of the department of pathology.

Sproul returned to Columbia in 1950 and was offered a full professorship in 1961. at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New New York Here, she served as associate chief of cancer research and, in 1969, was appointed chair of the department of experimental pathology and clinical professor of pathology.

Ours seemed, on the surface, a male-dominated world.

Politics

she undoubtedly was a pioneer in a daring and noble form of feminism.".

Connections

teacher:

Henry A. Azar