Olive Swezy
Olive Swezy | |
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Swezy c. 1920s–1930s | |
| Born | 1878 Shohola, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | 1963 (aged 84–85) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Zoologist |
| Known for | Early work on oogenesis |
| Notable work | The Free-Living Unarmed Dinoflagellata The ovarian chromosome cycle in a mixed rat strain Ovogenesis and the Normal Follicular Cycle in Adult Mammalia |
Olive Swezy (1878–1963) was an American zoologist. She studied dinoflagellata and amoebas. Swezy often worked alongside Charles Kofoid in topics relating to applied zoology. She researched amoebas causing illness and performed early research on oogenesis along with Herbert McLean Evans. During the 1940s, Swezy wrote papers against Nazism and holding Japanese Americans in internment camps.