About Helen B. Thompson
Lived 1875 – 1969 (aged 93–94). Helen B. Thompson was an American university teacher.
Helen B. Thompson (1875–1969) was an American home economist, Professor of Home Economics, and professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Early life and education Helen B. Thompson was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, 1875.
Her early studies were at the Kansas State Agricultural College (B.S., 1903; M.S., 1907). At Columbia University, she received the degree of Master of Arts (1913). At Yale University, she earned her Ph.D. under Lafayette Mendel in the Department of Physiology, with a major in Physiological chemistry (1917).
Thompson Hall, a building on the campus of the Kansas State Agricultural College, was so named in recognition of the work done by Thompson while dean, and of the fact that she was one of their distinguished women graduates.
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Who was Helen B. Thompson?
American professor (1875-1969)
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Helen B. Thompson was born in 1875 in Chillicothe.
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Helen B. Thompson died on 24 February 1969 in Stanford University Medical Center.
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Helen B. Thompson was a university teacher.
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Helen B. Thompson was American.
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