Elizabeth Lee "Betty" Klepper (1936 – 2018) was an American agronomic scientist from Memphis, Tennessee.
[4] Following this, she went to the United Kingdom on a Marshall Scholarship, where she studied botany and associated subjects at University of Exeter.
[5][6] She returned to a teaching position at Hutchinson School in Memphis.
[3][5] She soon went to Duke University to continue with her post-graduate and doctoral education, and followed this up with post-doctoral research in Australia after which she returned to the United States.
[3] While teaching agronomy at Auburn University,[2] she was hired by the United States Department of Agriculture Rhizotron Laboratory.