Jane Maienschein (1950- )

Jane Maienschein is the daughter of Joyce Kylander [5] and Fred Maienschein [6], and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on 23 September 1950. She attended MIT as a freshman and then transferred to Yale University [7] in 1969 when Yale decided to admit women undergraduates. In 1972 she graduated with an honors degree in History, the Arts, and Letters having written a thesis on the history of science. She then attended Indiana University [8] and studied with historian of embryology [9] Frederick B. Churchill [10], took courses with embryologist Rudolf Raff [11], and learned how to do embryological laboratory research with Robert Briggs. She received her MA in 1976 and a PhD in 1978, with a pre-doctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian to study the history of microscopes and microscopy [12], and an NSF-funded dissertation improvement visit to the Marine Biological Laboratory [13] (MBL) to reproduce old embryological experiments and soak up the history and resources of the MBL Library and labs. Maienschein?s scholarly research focuses on the history and philosophy of developmental biology.