Libbie hyman biography of william hill
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Libbie Hyman
American zoologist
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (December 6, 1888 – August 3, 1969), was an American zoologist.[2] She wrote numerous works on invertebrate zoology and the widely used A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (1922, revised in 1942).[3]
Life
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, she was a child of Jewish parents, Joseph and Sabina (née Neumann) Hyman.[4] Her father, an emigrant from Poland, adopted the surname "Hyman" when he immigrated to the United States as a youth.
Libbie hyman biography of william hill
Her mother was from Germany. Joseph Hyman successively owned clothing stores in Des Moines, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and in Fort Dodge, Iowa, but the family's resources were limited. Hyman attended public schools in Fort Dodge.
At home, she was required to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books by Charles Dickens in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy