Helene Thomas Bennett

Helene Thomas Bennett (5 July 190127 April 1988) was a bacteriologist and businesswoman who worked in Arizona.[1] She opened the Yuma Clinical Laboratory in 1926, in Yuma, Arizona, which became the second largest lab of its type in Arizona.[2] She was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 2011.[1]

Helene Thomas Bennett
Awards

Life

Helene was born July 5, 1901, near Raton, New Mexico and was the eldest of three children.[3] When her father John was killed in a railroad accident, her family moved to Kansas and later Jasper, Missouri.[3] She received a degree in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1922, followed by a master's degree in bacteriology.[3]

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References

  1. Knaub, Mara. "Yuman inducted into Arizona Women's Hall of Fame". Yuma Sun. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  2. "Bennett, Helene Thomas". Health Sciences Library. University of Arizona. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  3. "Helene Thomas Bennett (1901-1988)". Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
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