Background
Mary Esther Gaulden was the daughter of Daniel Harley Gaulden, Senior and Virginia Carson Gaulden.
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She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Winthrop College, where she double-majored in music and biology, and later earned her doctorate in biology at the University of Virginia.
Career
Her genealogical information is available: WikiTree Profile Gaulden-51, Mary Esther Gaulden In 1949, she began working as a senior radiation biologist in the Biology Division of the National Laboratory in, Tennessee under Alexander Hollaender. In the mid-1960s, the couple and their two young children relocated to Dallas, Texas. Gaulden took a position as a professor of radiology at the, where she retired in 1992.
Gaulden served on the Committee on Toxicology of the United States. National Research Council from 1989–1999, studying (among other things) the environment on the International Space Station.
Achievements
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She was given a plaque by the alumni of the Department of Radiology, Southwestern Medical School, for the years 1967-1977. In 1982 she was given the Academia Award as the Best Lecturer in Genetics by the Freshman Medical School Class. In the nonscientific arena, she also distinguished herself. In, she became locally famous as the person who "threw the rascals out" of the Anderson County Election Commission, and was also active in the desegregation movement in that county. In recognition of these activities, the legal community gave her the Liberty Bell Award for 1963. In 1983, she was given the Maura McNiel Award (Women Helping Women) by the Women"s Center of Dallas.
Membership
Gaulden was a founding member of the Radiation Research Society and the Environmental Mutagen Society and was president of the Association of Southeastern Biologists in 1959.
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American