1910 - 2009
Sophie Lutterlough Biologist
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1909
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| Birthplace |
Washington, D.C.
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| Died |
11th February, 2009
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| Place of Death |
Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
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| Occupation Text |
Entomologist, Museum specialist (Zoology), Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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| Occupation |
Biologist
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Sophie Lutterlough (1910–2009) was an American entomologist. Lutterlough began working at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) as an elevator operator in the 1940s at a time when discriminatory hiring practices prevented African-Americans from working in a curatorial or scientific capacity at the Museum. In the late 1950s, after having gained extensive knowledge of the museum's exhibitions, she asked for and achieved a role in entomological work, eventually restoring hundreds of thousands of insects, classifying thousands. She co-identified 40 type specimens, specimens that stand as the representative example of the species. In 1979, a mite was named in her honor.
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