Helen Dean King
Helen Dean King was an American biologist. Born at Owego, New York, she graduated from Vassar College in 1892 and in 1899 received her doctorate in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, where she was fellow and student assistant in biology from 1897 to 1904. She taught physiology at Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, from 1899 to 1907, was research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1906-08, and served as assistant in anatomy in 1908-09 and as an associate after 1909 at the Wistar Institute. She was also an assistant at Woods Hole, Mass. Her investigations dealt largely with problems of sex determination. She served as vice president of the American Society of Zoologists in 1937, and was associate editor of the Journal of Morphology and Physiology from 1924–1927 and editor of the Wistar Institute's bibliography service from 1922 to 1935.
King participated in breeding the Wistar rat, a strain of genetically homogeneous albino rats for use in biological and medical research.
