Mildred Gordon

Mildred Kobrin Gordon (1920 – 23 August 1993) was an American cell biologist, born in Manhattan, noted for her research of human sperm and the endometrium, and of the uterus. Gordon graduated from City College with B.S. in biology. She received an M.S. in zoology from Tulane University and her Ph.D. in anatomy from Yale University School of Medicine. She was a professor at School for Biomedical Education of City University Medical School (now CUNY School of Medicine) for the last 13 years of her working life. Her work assisted in the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF). She also receives credit for what is known about how calcium influences the spermocyte.

Works

Gordon, Mildred; Kohorn, Ernest I.; Rice, Susan I.; Hemperly, Susan (February 1972). "The relation of the structure of progestational steroids to nuclear differentiation in human endometrium". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 34 (2): 257–264. doi:10.1210/jcem-34-2-257. Gordon, Mildred; Morris, Eugene; Young, Ronald J. (January 1983) "The localization of Ca2+-ATPase and Ca2+ binding proteins in the flagellum of guinea pig sperm" Molecular Reproduction & Development 8 (1); 49-55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.1120080106