Russell, Jane Anne (09 February 1911–12 March 1967), endocrinologist, was born near Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Josiah Howard Russell, a rancher and deputy sheriff, and Mary Ann Phillips. She completed her early education in the public school system of Long Beach and received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1932, graduating first in her class. During her first year as a graduate student at Berkeley she worked as a technician in the biochemistry department, and from 1934 to 1937 she worked as an assistant in the university’s Institute of Experimental Biology....
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Russell, Jane Anne (1911-1967), endocrinologist
Charles W. Carey Jr.
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Scharrer, Berta Vogel (1906-1995), cell biologist and pioneering neuroendocrinologist
G. Terry Sharrer
Scharrer, Berta Vogel (01 December 1906–23 July 1995), cell biologist and pioneering neuroendocrinologist, was born Berta Vogel in Munich, Germany, the daughter of Karl Phillip Vogel, a prominent judge in the Bavarian state court, and Johanna Weiss. Berta grew up in happy circumstances at home and in school, and she showed an early interest in biology and in becoming a scientist. But after 1914 her life was shadowed by World War I, by Germany's defeat and economic chaos, and ultimately by the rise of Nazism, which gained an early foothold in Munich. Scharrer entered the University of Munich in the swale of Adolf Hitler's conspiracy to overthrow of the Bavarian government, and she graduated with a Ph.D. in 1930, as the Nazis came to national prominence....
