Helene Thomas Bennett
American bacteriologist, businesswoman
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| Intro | American bacteriologist, businesswoman | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Bacteriologist Businessperson | |
| Work field | Biology Business | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1901 | |
| Death | 1 January 1988 (aged 87 years) |
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Helene Thomas Bennett (1901–1988) was a bacteriologist and businesswoman who worked in Arizona. She opened the Yuma Clinical Laboratory in 1926, in Yuma, Arizona, which became the second largest lab of its type in Arizona.
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Helene was born July 5, 1901, near Raton, New Mexico and was the eldest of three children. When her father John was killed in a railroad accident, her family moved to Kansas and later Jasper, Missouri. She received a degree in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1922, followed by a master's degree in bacteriology.