Kitty Ponse
Swiss zoologist and endocrinologist
Kitty Ponse's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Biology
Kitty Ponse's Degrees
- PhD Zoology University of Zurich
- Doctorate Endocrinology University of Bern
Why Is Kitty Ponse Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kitty Ponse was a Swiss zoologist and endocrinologist. She was a professor at the University of Geneva and received the Swiss Otto Naegeli Prize in 1961. Life and career Ponse was born in Sumatra, then part of the Dutch East Indies, to Dutch parents in 1897. At the age of eight she and her family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where she later studied science at the University of Geneva. She completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Geneva in 1922 that focused on embryological development. While the focus of her earlier research and publications was pure zoology, including tail regeneration in lizards, she later developed a particular interest in sex determination and sexual differentiation in amphibians. In the mid-1920s, she conducted experiments in which she successfully inverted the sex of toads; The New York Times carried a story about Ponse's work in 1926 with the headline "Says she changes the sex of toads". Her work on sexual differentiation in vertebrates was compiled in her 1949 book La différenciation du sexe et l'intersexualité.
Other Resources About Kitty Ponse
What Schools Are Affiliated With Kitty Ponse?
Kitty Ponse is affiliated with the following schools:
