Jessie Isabelle Price, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jessie Isabelle Price

veterinary microbiologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Montrose, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 12-Nov-2015

Profession: scientist, microbiologist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jessie Isabelle Price (January 1, 1930 – November 12, 2015) was a veterinary microbiologist.
She isolated and reproduced the cause of the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming in the 1950s and developed vaccines for this and other avian diseases.
A graduate of Cornell University, where she gained a PhD (1959), she worked first at the Cornell Duck Research Laboratory and later at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center.
She served as chair of the Predoctoral Minority Fellowship Ad Hoc Review Committee of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and as president of Graduate Women in Science.