Ruth Gordon

Ruth Evelyn Gordon (1910–2003) was an American bacterial taxonomist. She was member of the American Type Culture Collection. The bacterial genus Gordonia (formerly Gordona) and species Mycobacterium gordonae are named after her.

Gordon received her PhD in bacteriology from Cornell University in 1934. Gordon retired in 1981, but continued to work as a visiting investigator for the ATCC.

Publications A Study of Some Acid-Fast Actinomycetes from Soil with Special Reference to Pathogenicity for Animals (1936) A Study of Some of the Properties of the Toxic Substances Produced by Salmonella Paratyphi A and B (1937) The Toxicity of Young Cells of Salmonella Paratyphi A and B When Lysed by Bacteriophage (1938) Aerobic Mesophilic Sporeforming Bacteria (1946)