page_title: Eleanor Carothers
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Eleanor Carothers / Later life
caption_attribution_description: Estrella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957) taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1913-1933, and then continued her groundbreaking genetics research on the order Orthoptera at the University of Iowa from 1935 to 1941
context_page_description: Estrella Eleanor Carothers, known primarily as Eleanor Carothers, was an American zoologist, geneticist, and cytologist known for her work with grasshoppers. She discovered important physical evidence for the concept of independent assortment, vital to modern understanding of genetics.
context_section_description: Carothers retired from the University of Iowa in 1941 and moved from Iowa to Kingman, Kansas, where she continued to conduct research for the Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab. In 1954, she moved to Murdock, Kansas, where she lived and researched for the remainder of her life. Carothers died in 1957 at the age of 75.
caption: Carothers with a microscope
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