Jessie Isabelle Price

Jessie Isabelle Price
Jessie Price and colleagues at the Duck Research Laboratory, Cornell University
Born(1930-01-01)January 1, 1930
Montrose, Pennsylvania, US
DiedNovember 12, 2015(2015-11-12) (aged 85)
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Alma mater
Known for
  • Isolating Pasteurella anatipestifer in white pekin ducks
  • Developing avian vaccines
Scientific career
Fields
  • Veterinary microbiologist
Institutions

Jessie Isabelle Price (January 1, 1930 – November 12, 2015)[1] was a veterinary microbiologist. She isolated and reproduced the cause of the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming in the 1950s and developed vaccines for this and other avian diseases.[2][3] A graduate of Cornell University, where she gained a PhD (1959),[4] she worked[3] first at the Cornell Duck Research Laboratory[5] and later at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center. She served as chair of the Predoctoral Minority Fellowship Ad Hoc Review Committee of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and as president of Graduate Women in Science.[3]

  1. ^ "Jessie Isabelle Price Dies On November 12". The Southampton Press. 23 Nov 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Price diss 1959 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c Warren, Wini (1999). Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]: Indiana University Press. pp. 237–241. ISBN 978-0253336033 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Alumni Cornell University (December 2015). "Deceased Classmates - Cornell Alumni". Cornell University. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  5. ^ "About Duck Research Laboratory". Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Cornell University. Retrieved 12 February 2017.