Wilson, Mildred Stratton

Mildred Stratton was born in Seaside, Oregon, on April 25, 1909. She married Charles Sawyer Wilson in San Anselmo, California, on June 25, 1934. She received her A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938 and remained at Berkeley as a research assistant in invertebrate zoology until January 1940. In 1944, she became an Assistant Curator in the Division of Marine Invertebrates at the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1946, she was appointed as a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Mildred S. Wilson moved to Alaska in 1948, and became a Consultant in Biology to the Arctic Health Research Center of the U.S. Public Health Service. She became an Associate in Marine Science at the University of Alaska in 1968 and was connected to the Institute of Marine Science. The focus of her research was on copepoda, and her laboratory was in her home in Spenard, Alaska. She received several notable grants and fellowships in the course of her career and was the first Alaskan to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship (April 1955) and also the first Alaskan to receive a National Science Foundation Grant (October 1955). Mildred S. Wilson died in 1973.