Ruth Patrick

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Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) was a pioneer in environmental science and pollution control efforts. As a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, she developed ways to measure the health of wetlands and established, among others, the Ruth Patrick Center for Environmental Research (PCER) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

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