Hilda Florence Rosene

Hilda Florence Rosene Lund (March 26, 1897 – December 21, 1978) was an American plant physiologist.

She graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle, before earning a teacher's diploma at Western Washington College of Education in 1917.

In 1929, after several years as an educator, she returned to graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she completed her doctorate in 1933, with a dissertation titled "Contributions to the Electro-Chemistry of the Cell".

She was one of only two women who held tenured faculty positions at the University of Texas in the natural sciences in her time.

[7] Hilda Rosene married fellow scientist Elmer Julius Lund in 1955; he had been her doctoral adviser many years before.