Angie Maria Beckwith (27 January 1881 – 2 October 1964) was an American phytopathologist, at the primary pathology laboratory at the USDA's Bureau of Plant Industry under Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges during the 1920s.[1][2][3]
Angie Maria Beckwith | |
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Nationality | American |
Known for | Botany, Plant pathology |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | United States Department of Agriculture |
In 1921, Beckwith was one of more than twenty women who worked in Smith's lab, and who were credited with studying bacterial wilt in new dry beans.[1] Among her cohort were several notable mycologists and botanists including Charlotte Elliott, Nellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katherine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith.[1]
She was a member of the Mycological Society of America and published regularly in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.[4]
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