Dorothy Riggs Pitelka

Dorothy Riggs Pitelka (born Dorothy Getchell Riggs, 13 September 1920 – 6 February 1994) was an American zoologist, protistologist, cancer researcher, and pioneer in applications of electron microscopy to zoology and protistology, known for her 1963 book Electron-Microscopic Structure of Protozoa.[1][2]

  1. ^ Bern, Howard A.; Eakin, Richard M.; Nandi, Satyabrata (1994). "Dorothy Riggs Pitelka, Zoology: Berkeley". California Digital Library.
  2. ^ Pitelka, Dorothy R. (1963). Electron-Microscopic Structure of Protozoa. New York: Macmillan.