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Elizabeth Kerr
American actress (1912–2000)
This article is about the actress. For the Scottish noblewoman, see Elizabeth Fortescue.
Elizabeth Kerr | |
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| Born | (1912-08-15)August 15, 1912 Kansas City, Missouri, US |
| Died | January 13, 2000(2000-01-13) (aged 87) |
| Occupation | Actor |
Elizabeth Kerr (August 15, 1912 – January 13, 2000) was an American actress, theatre producer and director, perhaps best known for playing Cora Hudson in Mork & Mindy.
Early years
Kerr was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of John and Anna Kerr. She attended Northwestern University and the University of Kansas.[1] As a girl, she dreamed of being an actress, but family responsibilities prevented her from doing so until she was a grandmother.[2] After she married, she wrote reviews of books and plays for the newspaper that she and her husband owned. She also read book reviews at meetings of women's clubs, which she said helped to prepare her for acting.[3]
Career
Kerr's acting career began at the Pasadena Playhous
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Colombian all-female team uncovers naturalist Elizabeth Kerr’s long-forgotten legacy
Many fields of study have long been dominated by men but a team of eight female Colombian researchers are committed to uncovering the story of naturalist pioneer Elizabeth Kerr, whose legacy had remained invisible despite her vast contributions to ornithology.
Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, assistant professor of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz, is the senior scientist on the team that was led by ornithologist and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PhD student Juliana Soto-Patiño. The other team members are: Estefanía Guzmán, Daniela Garzón, Katherine Certuche (all local ornithologists of Tolima), Nelsy Niño the community-engagement leader of the BIO expedition project, and Jessica Niño and Natalia Pérez, both young ornithologists of the BIO expeditions.
Since first finding her contributions in September 2020, the group has written about Kerr’s work and history, in the context of underrepresentation of women in the science prevalent in
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Elizabeth L Kerr
American ornithologist
Elizabeth L Kerr was an American ornithologist, who collected hundreds of birds for the American Museum of Natural History bird surveys in Colombia, in the first decades of 20th-century.
Frank Chapman, the organiser of the early 20th-century surveys and the museums curator of birds, used the Mrs. Kerr Collection to help with the distribution of Columbian birds. He relegated Kerr's contribution to a footnote in his The Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia. A Contribution to a Biological Survey of South America.[1] In 1915 he named the Choco tinamou, Crypturellus kerriae (Chapman, 1915) after her. [2]
A group of female ornithologists surveying Colombian birds, consider Kerr an inspiration for 21st-century female ornithologists. Of the ninety species found by the 2020 expedition, twenty-six species were documented by Kerr. [3]
References
- ^Soto-Patiño, Juliana; Certuche-Cubillos, Katherine; Díaz-Cárdenas, Jessica; Garzón-Lozano, Daniela; Guzmán-Moreno, Estefanía; Niño-Rodríguez, Nels
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