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Education: When Ruth Patrick was young she went to Kansas City for Elementary and High School. She went to college in Virginia because she wanted to study Ivey F. She got a degree in Biology at Coker College South Carolina-1929 and had advanced degrees from Virginia University.
Writings: Ruth Patrick wrote many books. For example she wrote The Diatoms of the United States-1966, Managing Water Resources-1986, Rivers of the United States, and Ground Water Contamination in the United States-1987.
Ground Water: Ground water is the underground system of lakes and rivers. It also provides drinking water and is given to 96% of the U.S. population.
Issue: Ruth Patrick became interested in earth and ground waters water pollution and diatoms (Algae) in the 1980’s.
Family: Ruth Patrick was married in 1931 to a man named Charles Hodge IV. They lived in Chestnut Hill Philadelphia. There only sons name was Charles Hodge V. He was born in 1951, and later Charles Hodge V became a physician. Ruth Patrick’s Husband died and married her second husband Lewis H. Van Dusen, Jr.
Challenges: Ruth Patrick couldn’t find a job when she was young and ended up working as an unpaid volunteer at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
Reason: Ruth Patrick started to have an interest in ground water and water pollution because her dad loved science and nature and she wanted to be like him.
Ruth Patrick!
Pictures from... www.acnatsci.org/library/collections/academywomen/patrick/index.html
Works Cited “. “Ruth Patrick 1907-.” Biography Today. 1999.
