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Ida Genther Schmidt

This article is about the American biochemist known as Ida Genther Schmidt after marriage; for the Swedish educator of a similar name, see Ida Schmidt.

Ida Therese Genther Schmidt (December 1, 1902 – October 10, 1999) was an American anatomist and biochemistry researcher, working in endocrinology and especially on the effects of radiation. She was on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati's medical school for 33 years, beginning in the 1930s. She co-authored research papers with Leo Loeb, Marie Agnes Hinrichs, and Chi Che Wang.

Ida Genther Schmidt
A young white woman with wavy blondish hair cut in a bob, wearing a dark top with a white collar
Ida T. Genther, from the 1925 yearbook of Mount Holyoke College
Born
Ida Therese Genther

December 1, 1902
Oradell, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedOctober 10, 1999 (1999-10-11) (aged 96)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation(s)Scientist, biochemistry researcher

Early life and education

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Genther was born in Oradell, New Jersey, the daughter of Gustave Genther and Louisa Baer Genther. Her parents were German immigrants; she worked as a domestic servant in her childhood. A teacher helped her continue her studies, and arranged a college scholarship for the young Genther.[1] She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1925, as a zoology major with a chemistry minor.[2] She earned a master's degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1927, and completed a Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1930.[3]

Career

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She taught zoology at Washington University in St. Louis, and physiology at University of Chicago. She was an assistant professor of anatomy at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,[4] where she was one of the first female professors, and taught from 1930 to 1963. From 1963 to 1969, she taught in the veterinary college at the University of California, Davis, and from 1969 to 1982 she taught in the medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.[1]

Schmidt was a member of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Pediatric Research Foundation.[5][6] She had research residencies at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole during the 1930s.[7] She was editor of the textbook An Atlas of Human Histology for twenty years,[1] working with fellow editor Mariano S. H. di Fiore.[8]

Publications

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Genther Schmidt's research appeared in academic journals including Experimental Biology and Medicine,[9][10] The Anatomical Record,[7] Physiological Zoology,[11] American Journal of Anatomy,[12][13] American Journal of Diseases of Children,[14][15] and Endocrinology.[16][17]

As Ida T. Genther

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  • "Heredity and Internal Secretion on Origin of Mammary Cancer in Mice" (1928, with Leo Loeb)[9]
  • "Effect of Certain Alkaloids Upon Early Cleavage in Arbacia Punctulata" (1929, with Marie A. Hinrichs)[10]
  • "Rate of Heart-Beat in Limulus as Affected by Exposure to Ultraviolet Point Radiation" (1930, with Marie A. Hinrichs)[18]
  • "Ultra-Violet Radiation and the Production of Twins and Double Monsters" (1931, with Marie A. Hinrichs)[11]
  • "Irradiation of the ovaries of guinea-pigs and its effect on the oestrous cycle" (1931)[12]
  • "X-irradiation of the ovaries of guinea-pigs and its effect on subsequent pregnancies" (1934)[13]
  • "Metabolism of Adolescent Girls III: The Excretion of Creatinine and Creatine" (1936, with Chi Che Wang and Corinne Hogden)[14]
  • "Metabolic Study of Five Children with Nephrotic Syndrome" (1939, with Chi Che Wang and Corinne Hogden)[15]

As Ida G. Schmidt

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  • "The excretion of theelin in the urine of guinea pigs with irradiated ovaries" *(1936)[7]
  • "The effects of hypophyseal implants from normal mature guinea pigs on the sex organs of immature guinea pigs" (1937)[16]
  • "Variations in the Structure of Adrenals and Thyroids Produced by Thyroxine and High Environmental Temperatures" (1938, with L. H. Schmidt)[17]
  • "The influence of a normal ovary on the formation of typical irradiation tissues in the X-rayed ovary" (1938)[19]
  • "The Relation of Environmental Temperature to the Action of Thyroxine" (1938, with L. H. Schmidt)[20]
  • "Changes in the Genital Tracts of Guinea Pigs Associated with Cystic and 'Interstitial Gland' Ovaries of Long Duration" (1939)[21]
  • An Atlas of Human Histology (1967, edited with Mariano S. H. di Fiore)[8]

Personal life

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Genther married her colleague Leon Herbert Schmidt in 1931. They had two children, Nancy and Richard.[22] Her husband died in 1989,[23][24] and she died in 1999, at the age of 96, at a nursing home in Cincinnati.[1]

Microbiologist Clara Sesler Genther was Ida Genther Schmidt's sister-in-law.[25][26] Both women worked medical research in Cincinnati,[27] and both women published research with L. H. Schmidt.[28]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Kim, Betty (1999-10-13). "Dr. Ida Schmidt helped break UC gender barrier; She taught 33 years at medical college". The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-09-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Mount Holyoke College, Llamarada (1925 yearbook): 87, 162.
  3. ^ Howes, Durward (1935). American Women. Richard Blank Publishing Company. p. 797.
  4. ^ "Ida Genther Schmidt". History of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  5. ^ "News and Comment". Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 42 (5): 1207–1208. 1931-11-01. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1931.01940180157022. ISSN 1072-4710.
  6. ^ "Cincinnati Becomes Center for Research in Pediatrics Through Procter Generosity". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1930-11-06. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-09-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c Schmidt, Ida Genther (1936-01-25). "The excretion of theelin in the urine of guinea pigs with irradiated ovaries". The Anatomical Record. 64 (2): 255–266. doi:10.1002/ar.1090640212. ISSN 0003-276X.
  8. ^ a b Fiore, Mariano S. H. di (1974). Atlas of Human Histology. Lea & Febiger. ISBN 978-0-8121-0421-9.
  9. ^ a b Loeb, L.; Genther, I. T. (1928-06-01). "Heredity and Internal Secretion on Origin of Mammary Cancer in Mice". Experimental Biology and Medicine. 25 (9): 809–811. doi:10.3181/00379727-25-4083. ISSN 1535-3702.
  10. ^ a b Hinrichs, M. A.; Genther, I. T. (1929-12-01). "Effect of Certain Alkaloids Upon Early Cleavage in Arbacia Punctulata". Experimental Biology and Medicine. 27 (3): 189–191. doi:10.3181/00379727-27-4673. ISSN 1535-3702.
  11. ^ a b Hinrichs, Marie A.; Genther, Ida T. (July 1931). "Ultra-Violet Radiation and the Production of Twins and Double Monsters". Physiological Zoology. 4 (3): 461–485. doi:10.1086/physzool.4.3.30151153. ISSN 0031-935X.
  12. ^ a b Genther, Ida T. (1931-05-20). "Irradiation of the ovaries of guinea-pigs and its effect on the oestrous cycle". American Journal of Anatomy. 48 (1): 99–137. doi:10.1002/aja.1000480106. ISSN 0002-9106.
  13. ^ a b Genther, Ida T. (July 1934). "X-irradiation of the ovaries of guinea-pigs and its effect on subsequent pregnancies". American Journal of Anatomy. 55 (1): 1–45. doi:10.1002/aja.1000550102. ISSN 0002-9106.
  14. ^ a b Che Wang, Chi (1936-06-01). "Metabolism of Adolescent Girls III. The Excretion of Creatinine and Creatine". American Journal of Diseases of Children. 51 (6): 1268. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1936.01970180014002. ISSN 0096-8994.
  15. ^ a b Wang, Chi Che (1939-07-01). "Metabolic Study of Five Children with Nephrotic Syndrome: II. Fat and Protein Metabolism and Creatinine and Creatine Output". American Journal of Diseases of Children. 58 (1): 29. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990070041003. ISSN 0096-8994.
  16. ^ a b Schmidt, Ida Genther (July 1937). "The effects of hypophyseal implants from normal mature guinea pigs on the sex organs of immature guinea pigs". Endocrinology. 21 (4): 461–468. doi:10.1210/endo-21-4-461. ISSN 0013-7227.
  17. ^ a b Schmidt, Ida Genther; Schmidt, L. H. (November 1938). "Variations in the Structure of Adrenals and Thyroids Produced by Thyroxine and High Environmental Temperatures". Endocrinology. 23 (5): 559–565. doi:10.1210/endo-23-5-559. ISSN 0013-7227.
  18. ^ Hinrichs, M. A.; Genther, I. T. (1930-11-01). "Rate of Heart-Beat in Limulus as Affected by Exposure to Ultraviolet Point Radiation". Experimental Biology and Medicine. 28 (2): 121–122. doi:10.3181/00379727-28-5187. ISSN 1535-3702.
  19. ^ Schmidt, Ida Genther (August 1938). "The influence of a normal ovary on the formation of typical irradiation tissues in the X-rayed ovary". The Anatomical Record. 71 (4): 409–412. doi:10.1002/ar.1090710405. ISSN 0003-276X.
  20. ^ Schmidt, L. H.; Schmidt, Ida Genther (November 1938). "The Relation of Environmental Temperature to the Action of Thyroxine". Endocrinology. 23 (5): 553–558. doi:10.1210/endo-23-5-553. ISSN 0013-7227.
  21. ^ Schmidt, Ida Genther (January 1939). "Changes in the Genital Tracts of Guinea Pigs Associated with Cystic and 'Interstitial Gland' Ovaries of Long Duration". Endocrinology. 24 (1): 69–81. doi:10.1210/endo-24-1-69. ISSN 0013-7227.
  22. ^ "Leon H. Schmidt, 79, ex-UCD researcher". The Sacramento Bee. 1989-05-25. p. 55. Retrieved 2023-09-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Hobby, Gladys L. (October 1989). "In Memoriam: Leon Herbert Schmidt, 1909-1989". Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 33 (10): i6. doi:10.1128/AAC.33.10.i6. ISSN 0066-4804. PMC 181201.
  24. ^ "Leon H. Schmidt, 79, Research". The New York Times. 1989-05-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  25. ^ "Obituary for Clara Sesler Genther (Aged 101)". The Kentucky Enquirer. 2018-08-23. pp. A22. Retrieved 2023-09-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Skertic, Mark (1997-12-28). "Theodore Genther devoted life to children, veterans; Former principal taught history". The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-09-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ "Hospital Official to Speak at OSU". The Cincinnati Post. 1948-01-30. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-09-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ Schmidt, L. H.; Genther, Clara S. (January 1953). "The Antimalarial Properties of 2,4-Diamino-5-p-Chlorophenyl-6-Ethylpirimidine (Daraprim)". Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 107 (1): 61–91. ISSN 0022-3565. PMID 13035646.
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