Helen Foot Buell (December 22, 1901 – February 21, 1995)[1] was an American botanist, algologist,[2] ecologist, and editor.
She held an appointment as a teaching assistant at Rutgers University, where her husband was a professor.
[7] Helen Foot married Murray Fife Buell in 1932, while they were graduate students in Minnesota.
[8][9] They had a son, Peter, and a daughter, Honor, both born in North Carolina.
After their death, their legacy lives on through the Murray and Helen Buell Scholarship[11][2] in Ecology at Rutgers University.