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Hannah Caroline Aase

(12 Jul) 1883 - 1980 (23 Nov)





Hannah Aase was an American cytologist/cytotaxonomist and was the first Emeritus Professor at Washington State University. After attaining a Bachelor's degree from the University of South Dakota in 1906 and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1914, she was hired as a botany instructor at Washington State University (then Washington State College), and remained there until her retirement in 1949. Post-retirement, she continued to work and study in her laboratory at the University, and to collaborate with fellow faculty member Francis Marion Ownbey on research into Allium aaseae, a species named for Aase.

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1915. Aase, Hannah C.. Vascular Anatomy of the Megasporophylls of Conifers. Botanical Gazette (4): 277-313.Google Scholar
1926. Aase, Hannah C. and LeRoy Powers. Chromosome Numbers in Crop Plants. American Journal of Botany (6): 367-372.Google Scholar
1926. Gaines, E. F. and Hannah C. Aase. A Haploid Wheat Plant. American Journal of Botany (6): 373-385.Google Scholar
1935. Aase, Hannah C.. Cytology of Cereals. Botanical Review (12): 467-496.Google Scholar
1946. Aase, Hannah C.. Cytology of Cereals. II. Botanical Review (5): 255-334.Google Scholar


1959. Ownbey, Marion and Hannah C. Aase. ALLIUM SPECULAE, A NEW SPECIES OF THE ALLIUM CANADENSE ALLIANCE FROM ALABAMA. Rhodora (723): 70-72.Google Scholar