Evelyn Joyce Weber (1928 - 2008) was an American biochemist, and agronomist.
She was a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and the first woman to be a faculty member of the Agronomy Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Evelyn Joyce Weber was born on Nov. 9, 1928, in Tower Hill, IL.
[1] Dr. Weber graduated from Pana High School and then attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she received her BS in Chemistry in 1952.
She then returned to Illinois as a research associate in biochemistry.
Evelyn was a Professor of Plant Biochemistry from 1965 to 1987, and throughout most of her career she was the only woman in the faculty of that department.
She retired in 1987 as a biochemist under a joint appointment from the U of I and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as well as a professor emerita in the agronomy department and a freelance editor and biochemical consultant.
[2][3][4][5][6] Her papers are held at University of Illinois Archives.
[7] She also has a paver in her honor in the Plaza of Heroines at Iowa State University (paver:22 and D:6 on the map).
[6] Fellowships:[2] Memberships:[2] Carter, H. E., Galanos, D. S., Gigg, R. H., Law, J. H., Nakayama, T., Smith, D. B., D. B., Weber, E. J.
Carter, H. E., Celmer, W. D., Galanos, D. S., Gigg, R. H., Lands, W. E. M., Law, J. H., Mueller, K. L., Nakayama, T., Tomizawa, H. H., Weber, E. (1958).
X. Phytoglycolipide, a complex phytosphingosine-containing lipide from plant seeds".
"Corticotropin Releasing Activity of Synthetic Lysine Vasopressin".
"Detection of phospholipids on paper chromatograms by neutron activation".
"Preparation and properties of various salt forms of plant phosphatidyl inositols".
"Lipids of maturing grain of corn (Zea mays L.): I.
Changes in lipid classes and fatty acid composition".
"Lipid Constituents of Some Common Weed Seeds".
"Lipids of maturing grain of corn (Zea mays L.): - II.
"The selective utilization of diglyceride species into maize triglycerides".
"Effects of fatty acid concentration and positional specificity on maize triglyceride structure".
"The selective utilization of diglyceride species into maize triglycerides".
"The effects of herbicides on soybean seed constituents".
"Changes in structure of triglycerides from maturing kernels of corn".
"Absence of brain ganglioside abnormalities in shambling mutant mice".
"Influence of trichloracetic acid-phosphotungstic acid on the thin layer chromatographic mobility of gangliosides".
"Compositions of commercial corn and soybean lecithins".
"Lipid composition of a plasma membrane enriched fraction of maize roots".
"Variation in corn (Zea mays L.) for fatty acid compositions of triglycerides and phospholipids".
"High performance liquid chromatography of the tocols in corn grain".
"Carotenoids and tocols of corn grain determined by HPLC".