Millicent "Mimi" Edna Goldschmidt is an American microbiologist.
20 Facts About Millicent Goldschmidt
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Millicent Goldschmidt is a professor emerita at the University of Texas.
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Millicent Goldschmidt continued on to graduate studies despite resistance from her family; her parents were concerned that this decision would affect her marriage prospects.
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Millicent Goldschmidt landed first in Austin for a short postdoctoral fellowship under Orville Wyss, then in Houston.
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Millicent Goldschmidt was hired by Robert Williams at the Baylor College of Medicine.
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Millicent Goldschmidt was contracted from Baylor to work on the Lunar Receiving Laboratory.
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Millicent Goldschmidt trained the astronauts on how to collect samples without contaminating them and analysed samples for potential biohazards.
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Millicent Goldschmidt later moved around to various appointments in the Texas Medical Center.
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Millicent Goldschmidt is passionate about teaching fundamentals to students and has sought to balance a career where she can do research as well as teach and mentor students.
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At age 85, Millicent Goldschmidt retired from an active faculty position, though she remains professor emerita at the University of Texas at Houston.
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Millicent Goldschmidt has developed and presented rapid testing procedures for diagnostic kits.
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Millicent Goldschmidt's work has included the considerations of antifungal agents in facial prosthetic silicone, investigations into microbial contamination in denture adhesives, and other studies concerning denture wearers, toothbrushes and toothpastes.
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Millicent Goldschmidt has been a member and volunteer of the American Society for Microbiology since 1975.
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Millicent Goldschmidt is a long-time advocate for women in science, both through her mentorship and through her involvement in organisations supporting their career development.
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Millicent Goldschmidt has served as President of the Gulf Chapter of the Association of Women in Science.
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Millicent Goldschmidt initiated the creation of ASM awards for women in microbiology at the postdoctoral level.
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Millicent Goldschmidt has established an award for female graduate students microbiology, awarded yearly starting in 2012.
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Millicent Goldschmidt has served on the Board of Education and Training of the ASM and remains active on the advisory board for the society's Texas Branch.
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Millicent Goldschmidt married Eugene Millicent Goldschmidt, who she met while in graduate school.
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Millicent Goldschmidt and her husband had two children, born in 1953 and 1956.