page_title: Ethel Ronzoni Bishop
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caption_attribution_description: English: Biochemist Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1892-1975) taught at Washington University Medical School. After attending Mills College (B.S., 1913) and Columbia University (M.A., 1914), she taught home economics at University of Missouri and University of Minnesota and then in 1918 began graduate study at University of Wisconsin, where she earned Ph.D. in physiology in 1923. At Wisconsin, she met and married physiologist George Holman Bishop (1889-1973) [cross-reference to SIA Digital No. 2007-0234]. They moved to St. Louis and both joined the Washington University faculty, where she taught biological chemistry and neuropsychiatry until she retired in 1959
context_page_description: Ethel Ronzoni Bishop was an American biochemist and physiologist.
context_section_description: Ronzoni was an instructor of home economics at the University of Missouri from 1914 to 1917, and was assistant professor of Home Economics at the University of Minnesota for the 1917–18 academic year.
  Following her PhD, Bishop joined the Washington University School of Medicine in 1923, where she worked as an assistant professor until 1943; she appears to be the first woman to have joined the School's academic faculty. While there, she ran the chemistry lab of the Department of Medicine and Barnes Hospital. In 1943 she was promoted to associate professor of biochemistry, a position she held until her retirement in 1959. After World War II, she switched to neuropsychiatry and ran the lab in the Department of Psychiatry.
  As a researcher, Bishop's main focus was carbohydrate metabolism. She also researched amino acid metabolism, steroid hormones and muscle biochemistry.
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