| Intro | American zoologist |
| A.K.A. | Esther Fussell Byrnes, E. F. Byrnes |
| Was |
Biologist Scientist Zoologist Marine biologist Carcinologist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Biology |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1867 |
| Death |
1946 (aged 79 years) |
Esther Fussell Byrnes (1867–1946) was an American biologist and science teacher. She was a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. She tutored the princesses of the Japanese royal family from 1926 to 1927.
She made discoveries in marine biology, and was one of the first women copepodologists—scientists who study copepods.
Works
- Byrnes, E. F. (1909). “The Fresh Water Cyclops of Long Island”. Cold Spring Harbor Monographs. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 7. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10398.
- Byrnes, E. F. (1921). “The Metamorphosis of Cyclops americanus Marsh and Cyclops signatus var. tenuicornis“. Cold Spring Harbor Monographs. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 9.