Birth Name:

Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale

Female

Birth Date:

Wed, Oct 25, 1916

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Age:

107

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

1°

Sco

57'

About Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale

Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale (October 25, 1916 – July 5, 1981) was a U.S. mycologist who discovered cycloheximide. She was born in Hammonton, New Jersey. She received a bachelor's degree from Maryville College (1937). Her Masters (botany, 1939) and Ph.D. (botany and mycology, 1941) were earned at the University of North Carolina. In 1941-42. She was a Carnegie Fellow, and in 1951, she was a Guggenheim Fellow. Barksdale worked at the Department of Antibiotic Research of the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan (1943–52) and at the New York Botanical Garden. Barksdale became a foundational figure in the study of Achlya, a genus of aquatic fungi with a unique reproductive system, while working at the New York Botanical Garden; The Mycological Society of America and the Achlya Newsletter, a publication of continuing research on Achlya, both published retrospectives on her life and work following her death in 1981.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale: Sun 1 Scorpio, Moon 17 Libra, Mercury 14 Libra, Venus 20 Virgo, Mars 2 Sagittarius, Jupiter 0 Taurus, Saturn 0 Leo, Uranus 15 Aquarius, Neptune 4 Leo, Pluto 4 Cancer, Sun Opposition Jupiter, Sun Trine Pluto, Sun Square Neptune, Sun Semi Sextile Mars, Sun Square Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Mars, Mercury Trine Uranus, Venus Semi Square Neptune, Mars Quincunx Jupiter, Mars Trine Saturn, Mars Trine Neptune, Mars Quincunx Pluto, Jupiter Square Saturn, Jupiter Square Neptune, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale: New Jersey, October 25 births, 20th-century American women scientists, American mycologists, University of North Carolina alumni, 1981 deaths, Maryville College alumni, 20th-century American botanists, American women botanists, 1916 births, People from Hammonton, Women mycologists

Photo attribution: Smithsonian Institution from United States, Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981)