Nina Strömgren Allen

Background

Allen, Nina Strömgren was born on September 17, 1935 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Daughter of Bengt G.D. and Sigrid Christian Science (Hartz) Strömgren. came to the United States 1951.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Wisconsin, 1957. Master of Science, University Maryland, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, University Maryland, 1973.

Career

Teaching assistant botany, University of Wisconsin, 1957-1958; teaching assistant botany, U. Maryland., 1964-1967; National Institutes of Health predoctoral fellow, U. Maryland., 1967-1970; research assistant, State University of New York, Albany, 1970-1973; postdoctoral fellow, State University of New York, Albany, 1973-1995; summer researcher, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 108-=09; visiting assistant professor, research associate, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1975-1976; assistant professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1976-1983; associate professor biology, Wake Forest U., Winston-Salem, 1984-1992; professor biology, Wake Forest U., Winston-Salem, since 1993; professor botany, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, since 1995. National Science Foundation visiting professor for women Stanford University, 1990-1991. Lecturer in field; ad hoc reviewer National Institutes of Health biomedical Research Technology Review Committee, 1988, study section member,1989-1994.

Trustee, member Executive Committee Marine Biological laboratories. Member National Science Foundation Instrumentation Panel.

Achievements

• Nina Strömgren Allen has been listed as a noteworthy Biology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (member biological science section council). Member American Society Cell Biology, American Society Plant Physiologists, Northeast Algal Society (founding member), Phycol. Society of America, North Carolina Academy of Sciences, American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, Electron Microscopical Society of America, Royal Microscopical Society (fellow 1985), AWIS (president elect Research Triangle chapter), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Robert Jackson Williams, July 18, 1958 (divorced 1970). Children: Erik Robert, Harriet Hopf. Married Robert Day Allen, September 11, 1970 (deceased).

1 child, Barbara Sigrid.

Father:

Bengt G.D. Strömgren

Mother:

Sigrid Christian Science (Hartz) Strömgren

Spouse:

Robert Day Allen

Spouse:

Robert Jackson Williams

child:

Barbara Sigrid Allen

child:

Erik Robert Allen

child:

Harriet Hopf Allen