Eva Konrad Hawkins

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Eva Konrad Hawkins
Born
Éva Konrád

(1930-03-12)March 12, 1930
Berettyóújfalu, Hungary
DiedApril 18, 2020(2020-04-18) (aged 90)
The Bronx, United States
Occupation(s)Marine scientist, biologist, botanist, college professor

Eva Konrad Hawkins (March 12, 1930 – April 18, 2020) was a Hungarian-born American biologist and college professor.

Early life[edit]

Éva Konrád was raised in Berettyóújfalu, near Debrecen, Hungary, to Jewish parents József Konrád and Róza Klein. Her younger brother was writer György Konrád. The siblings lived in a safe house in Budapest during World War II; their parents survived the Strasshof concentration camp in Austria.[1][2]

Konrád moved to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, after walking to Austria in snow, with a backpack of her belongings. In 1961, she completed doctoral studies in botany at the University of Pennsylvania,[3][4] with a dissertation on the Callithamnion roseum, a type of red seaweed.[5]

Career[edit]

Hawkins taught biology at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware,[6] Fairleigh Dickinson University, and City College of New York.[3] She was an algae expert on the staff of the New York Zoological Society's Osborn Laboratory of Marine Sciences, supported by a Rockefeller Foundation grant.[7] She designed underwater exhibits for the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Aquarium. She held a research fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden.[8]

Hawkins's research was published in scholarly journals including American Journal of Botany,[9] Journal of Cell Science,[10] Phycologia,[11] Transactions of the American Microscopical Society,[12] Curator: The Museum Journal,[13] Journal of Phycology,[14] and Protoplasma.[15]

Personal life[edit]

Eva Konrád married Charles Hawkins in the 1960s. They later divorced. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1963.[16] She died from COVID-19 at a nursing home in the Bronx on April 18, 2020, aged 90.[3][17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schwartz, Penny (2020-06-18). "Eva Konrad Hawkins, 90, Holocaust survivor who designed underwater museum exhibits". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  2. ^ "Gyorgy Konrad, Writer and Dissident in Communist Hungary, Dies at 86 (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Associated Press. 2019-09-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  3. ^ a b c Kilgannon, Corey (2020-06-11). "Eva Konrad Hawkins, Marine Scientist Who Fled Hungary, Dies at 90". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  4. ^ "Obituaries". The Pennsylvania Gazette. 2020-08-20. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  5. ^ Konrad, Eva. "Developmental Studies on Regenerates of Callithamnion roseum, Harvey" (PhD. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1961).
  6. ^ University of Delaware (1963). Graduate Catalog. p. 130.
  7. ^ New York Zoological Society (1967). Annual report of the New York Zoological Society. New York Zoological Society. p. 61 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ New York Botanical Garden (1967). The New York Botanical Garden Newsletter. p. 5.
  9. ^ Hawkins, Eva Konrad (February 1968). "Induction of Cell Differentiation in Dissociated Cells and Fragments of Callithamnion Roseum". American Journal of Botany. 55 (2): 255–264. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1968.tb06969.x.
  10. ^ Hawkins, Eva Konrad (1974-05-01). "Growth and Differentiation of the Golgi Apparatus in the Red Alga, Callithamnion Roseum". Journal of Cell Science. 14 (3): 633–655. doi:10.1242/jcs.14.3.633. ISSN 0021-9533. PMID 4830835.
  11. ^ Hawkins, Eva Konrad (1972-03-01). "Cell differentiation in tetrasporophytes of Callithamnion roseum Harvey (Rhodophyceae, Ceramiales)". Phycologia. 11 (1): 37–41. doi:10.2216/i0031-8884-11-1-37.1. ISSN 0031-8884.
  12. ^ Hawkins, Eva Konrad; Lee, John J. (1990). "Fine Structure of the Cell Surface of a Cultured Endosymbiont Strain of Porphyridium sp. (Rhodophyta)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 109 (4): 352–360. doi:10.2307/3226689. ISSN 0003-0023. JSTOR 3226689.
  13. ^ Hawkins, Eva K. (March 1970). "Ecological and Visual Considerations in Creating a Diorama of a Submarine Environment". Curator: The Museum Journal. 13 (1): 69–88. doi:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1970.tb00395.x.
  14. ^ Hawkins, Eva K.; Lee, John J.; Fimiarz, Daniel K. (2011). "Colony Formation and Sexual Morphogenesis in the Coccolithophore Pleurochrysis Sp. (haptophyta)1". Journal of Phycology. 47 (6): 1344–1349. Bibcode:2011JPcgy..47.1344H. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2011.01044.x. ISSN 1529-8817. PMID 27020358. S2CID 38628560.
  15. ^ Hawkins, Eva Konrad (1974-03-01). "Golgi vesicles of uncommon morphology and wall formation in the red alga,Polysiphonia". Protoplasma. 80 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1007/BF01666347. ISSN 1615-6102. PMID 4833207. S2CID 34289363.
  16. ^ Spruance, John S. (1963-09-13). "Polish Scientist Who Got Asylum Among 74 on Naturalization List". The News Journal. p. 25. Retrieved 2020-12-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "In memory of 5 more U.S. victims of the coronavirus". PBS NewsHour. 2020-07-03. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
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