Hibbard, Hope (1893–1988)
Hibbard, Hope (1893–1988)
American zoologist. Born 1893 in Altoona, Pennsylvania; died May 12, 1988; dau. of Mary (Scofield) Hibbard and Herbert Wade Hibbard (mechanical engineering professor); University of Missouri, BA, 1916, MA, 1918; Bryn Mawr College, PhD, 1921.
Researcher on the Golgi apparatus and the only woman faculty member at Oberlin College's Zoology department for 32 of her 33 years there, studied oogenesis in frog eggs at the Sorbonne's Laboratory of Anatomy and Comparative Histology, where she earned a 2nd doctorate (1925–26, 1927–28); researched histology at Oberlin College, where she worked as assistant professor (1928–30), associate professor (1930–33), professor (1933–61), Zoology department chair(1954–58) and professor emerita (1961–88); created Oberlin Chapter of League of Women Voters. Honors include Oberlin College's Adelia A. Field Johnson Professorship (1952) and stars in the American Men of Science (4th-11th editions).