Scott, Flora Murray

Scott was born in Craig, Scotland, on Sept. 6, 1891; BSc, 1914; MA, St. Andrews Univ., 1911; Ph. D, Stanford, 1925; came to US in 1922 and was naturalized in 1935; faculty member at American College for Women at Constantinople (1921) and Stanford (1922-25) before coming a professor at UCLA in 1925; Chairman, Dept. of Botany, UCLA; first president, UCLA Assn. of Academic Women; research focused on physiological plant anatomy; became professor emeritus in 1959; honors include Order of the British Empire (1919), and the UCLA Medal (1980); died in 1984.

From the description of Papers, 1919-1984. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38287273

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