Marianna Richards was a daughter of George H. Richards and Marianna Middlebrook Richards and an older sister of Frederic Middlebrook Richards, an eminent scientist at Yale University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Obituary:
Marianna Bovarnick, scientist
Marianna Richards Bovarnick of Guilford (CT), a scientist who did research for the military on diseases, died on Oct 31 1995 in New Haven. She was 84.
Mrs. Bovarnick, who had grown up in Wilton, graduated from Vassar College and from Columbia University in 1938 with a doctorate in chemistry. She married Max Bovarnick who also graduated from Columbia with a doctorate and medical degree.
They pursued their scientific careers together. During World War II, she did research at Johns Hopkins University while her husband served in the Army on a classified project at Fort Dietrich in Maryland.
Both were members of the microbiology department at Harvard where Mrs. Bovarnick began her studies on the rickettsia organisms that produce diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
They later worked together at the Veterans Administration Hospital on Long Island where they spent the next decade on research and clinical pathology. In the 1960s the couple formed the Valley Medical Laboratories in Springfield, Mass. And Somers. Following her husband’s death in 1974, Mrs. Bovarnick owned and ran them until the late 1980s.
She is survived by a brother, Frederic Richards and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Columbia University, c/o Emmett S. Watson, Gift Planning, New York, N.Y. 10027.
The Beecher and Bennett Funeral Service of Hamden was in charge of arrangements.
Wilton Bulletin, 6 Nov 1995
(Submitted by Find A Grave contributor KarenF)
Obituary:
Marianna Bovarnick, scientist
Marianna Richards Bovarnick of Guilford (CT), a scientist who did research for the military on diseases, died on Oct 31 1995 in New Haven. She was 84.
Mrs. Bovarnick, who had grown up in Wilton, graduated from Vassar College and from Columbia University in 1938 with a doctorate in chemistry. She married Max Bovarnick who also graduated from Columbia with a doctorate and medical degree.
They pursued their scientific careers together. During World War II, she did research at Johns Hopkins University while her husband served in the Army on a classified project at Fort Dietrich in Maryland.
Both were members of the microbiology department at Harvard where Mrs. Bovarnick began her studies on the rickettsia organisms that produce diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
They later worked together at the Veterans Administration Hospital on Long Island where they spent the next decade on research and clinical pathology. In the 1960s the couple formed the Valley Medical Laboratories in Springfield, Mass. And Somers. Following her husband’s death in 1974, Mrs. Bovarnick owned and ran them until the late 1980s.
She is survived by a brother, Frederic Richards and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Columbia University, c/o Emmett S. Watson, Gift Planning, New York, N.Y. 10027.
The Beecher and Bennett Funeral Service of Hamden was in charge of arrangements.
Wilton Bulletin, 6 Nov 1995
(Submitted by Find A Grave contributor KarenF)
Marianna Richards was a daughter of George H. Richards and Marianna Middlebrook Richards and an older sister of Frederic Middlebrook Richards, an eminent scientist at Yale University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Obituary:
Marianna Bovarnick, scientist
Marianna Richards Bovarnick of Guilford (CT), a scientist who did research for the military on diseases, died on Oct 31 1995 in New Haven. She was 84.
Mrs. Bovarnick, who had grown up in Wilton, graduated from Vassar College and from Columbia University in 1938 with a doctorate in chemistry. She married Max Bovarnick who also graduated from Columbia with a doctorate and medical degree.
They pursued their scientific careers together. During World War II, she did research at Johns Hopkins University while her husband served in the Army on a classified project at Fort Dietrich in Maryland.
Both were members of the microbiology department at Harvard where Mrs. Bovarnick began her studies on the rickettsia organisms that produce diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
They later worked together at the Veterans Administration Hospital on Long Island where they spent the next decade on research and clinical pathology. In the 1960s the couple formed the Valley Medical Laboratories in Springfield, Mass. And Somers. Following her husband’s death in 1974, Mrs. Bovarnick owned and ran them until the late 1980s.
She is survived by a brother, Frederic Richards and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Columbia University, c/o Emmett S. Watson, Gift Planning, New York, N.Y. 10027.
The Beecher and Bennett Funeral Service of Hamden was in charge of arrangements.
Wilton Bulletin, 6 Nov 1995
(Submitted by Find A Grave contributor KarenF)
Obituary:
Marianna Bovarnick, scientist
Marianna Richards Bovarnick of Guilford (CT), a scientist who did research for the military on diseases, died on Oct 31 1995 in New Haven. She was 84.
Mrs. Bovarnick, who had grown up in Wilton, graduated from Vassar College and from Columbia University in 1938 with a doctorate in chemistry. She married Max Bovarnick who also graduated from Columbia with a doctorate and medical degree.
They pursued their scientific careers together. During World War II, she did research at Johns Hopkins University while her husband served in the Army on a classified project at Fort Dietrich in Maryland.
Both were members of the microbiology department at Harvard where Mrs. Bovarnick began her studies on the rickettsia organisms that produce diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
They later worked together at the Veterans Administration Hospital on Long Island where they spent the next decade on research and clinical pathology. In the 1960s the couple formed the Valley Medical Laboratories in Springfield, Mass. And Somers. Following her husband’s death in 1974, Mrs. Bovarnick owned and ran them until the late 1980s.
She is survived by a brother, Frederic Richards and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Columbia University, c/o Emmett S. Watson, Gift Planning, New York, N.Y. 10027.
The Beecher and Bennett Funeral Service of Hamden was in charge of arrangements.
Wilton Bulletin, 6 Nov 1995
(Submitted by Find A Grave contributor KarenF)
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