Rose Frisch
| Rose Epstein Frisch | |
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| Born |
July 7, 1918 Bronx, New York City, United States |
| Died | January 30, 2015 (aged 96) Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Women's health, women's biology, leptin, obesity, fat, infertility, public health, population health, biology |
| Institutions |
Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; Harvard School of Public Health |
| Known for | discovery of leptin; work in infertility, specifically her discovery that low body fat was a contributing factor to infertility |
| Notable awards |
Guggenheim Fellowship – 1975–1976 |
| Spouse | David H. Frisch, PhD, an American physicist who helped develop the atom bomb in World War II and later became active in the disarmament movement. |
| Children | a daughter, Ruth Frisch Dealy, an artist in Providence, Rhode Island; a son, Henry Jonathan Frisch, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago; and four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren |
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Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Guggenheim Fellowship – 1975–1976
Sigma Xi national lecturer – 1988–1990 Fellow of the Bunting Institute – 1993–1994
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rally Day Medal for Medical Research and Reproductive Health (awarded by Smith College)
Rose Epstein Frisch (7 July 1918 – 30 January 2015) was an American biologist whose work was instrumental in the discovery of leptin. She is mainly known for her work in infertility; specifically the discovery that low body fat was a contributing factor to infertility.
She was born Rose Epstein in 1918, in the Bronx, to Russian immigrants Louis and Stella Epstein. Frisch attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1939. She earned her master's degree in zoology the following year at Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Wisconsin in 1943.
Focusing on the role of adipose tissue (fat) in fertility, Frisch discovered that low body fat (under 17%) could cause infertility, late menarche, and oligomenorrhea. She also discovered that athletes were at lower risk of breast cancer.
Frisch began her research career as a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin, where she worked with Drosophila melanogaster. After her doctorate, she became a human computer for the Manhattan Project.
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