Helen irene battle biography sample
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When Helen Irene Moore was born on 28 April 1860, in Warsaw, Warsaw Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Andrew Eakins Moore, was 27 and her mother, Lucretia T Perrin, was 24. She married John Edward Shobert before 1875. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Warsaw Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and New Kensington, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 December 1935, in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Hazen, Warsaw Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Helen of Greece and Denmark
Queen Mother of Romania
Helen of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Ελένη, romanized: Eléni; Romanian: Elena; 2 May 1896 – 28 November 1982) was the queen mother of Romania during the reign of her son King Michael inom (1940–1947). Her humanitarian efforts to save RomanianJews during World War II, led to her being awarded by the State of Israel with the honorific of Righteous Among the Nations in 1993.
Daughter of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia, Helen spent her childhood in Greece, the United Kingdom and Germany. The outbreak of World War I and the overthrow of her father by the Allies in 1917 permanently marked her and also separated her from her favorite brother, the young Alexander I of Greece. Exiled in Switzerland along with most members of the royal family, Helen then spent several months caring for her father, plagued by disease and nedstämdhet. In 1920, the princess met Carol, Crown Prince of Romania, wh
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Dr. Helen Irene Battle was born in London, Ontario in 1903 and was only 16 years old when she began her undergraduate studies at the Western University of London, Ontario. Following her graduation in 1923, she remained at the same school — since renamed the University of Western Ontario — to begin her Master’s degree with the Department of Zoology. It was there that Dr. Battle discovered her lifelong interest in the study of fish embryology.
After graduating, she left London to study at the University of Toronto and in 1928, she became the first Canadian woman to earn a PhD in Marine Ecology.
Dr. Battle soon returned to her alma mater to begin her 50 year-long career as a professor. She was a gifted teacher with a passion for passing on knowledge to her students, many of whom became influential biologists themselves.
While teaching, Dr. Battle continued her own research, actively applying laboratory research methods to solve problems in marine biology — the first zoologist to do