A dame full of vim and vigor
Subtitle: a biography of Alice Middleton Boring, biologist in China
By: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and Clifford J. Choquette.
Contributors: Choquette, Clifford J.
Series: Women in science.; Women in science (Harwood Academic Publishers)
Publisher: Harwood Academic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Boring, Alice M. 1883-1955.; Women biologists -- China -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations vii; title: Preface to the Series ix; title: Acknowledgments xi; title: Note on Chinese Names xvii; title: Introduction The Green Grasshopper 1; title: Chapter 1 Origins and Early Years 9; title: Chapter 2 The China Experiment 29; title: Chapter 3 The Career Choice 61; title: Chapter 4 From Laboratory Biology to Field Natural; title: History 87; title: Chapter 5 Teaching and Advising 121; title: Chapter 6 Pearl Harbor and Internment 147; title: Chapter 7 The Return 165; title: Chapter 8 The Finale 179; title: Chapter 9 A Retrospective 191; title: Bibliography Alice M. Boring 205; title: Index 209.