Myrtle Elizabeth Johnson | |
|---|---|
 Johnson c. 1922 | |
| Born | June 4, 1881 |
| Died | August 17, 1967 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Marine Biology |
| Institutions | San Diego State University |
Myrtle Elizabeth Johnson (1881 – 1967) was an American marine biologist, ascidiologist, and educator in California in the early 20th century.[1][2] She was the first woman PhD faculty member at the San Diego State College (now San Diego State University), where she taught from 1921 to 1946, and was chair of the Biology department from 1928 to 1940.[2] Her major work, Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast, published in 1927, was the standard descriptive text of intertidal species until Ed Ricketts's Between Pacific Tides was published in 1939.[3] Ricketts considered Johnson's book "the vade mecum of marine biologists of the Pacific. Indispensable."[4]
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- ^ Tamm, Eric Enno (2004). Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 28.
- ^ Ricketts, Edward Flanders; Calvin, Jack (1939). Between Pacific Tides. An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and Northern Mexico. Stanford University Press.