Early Life
Ruth Patrick is the daughter of Frank Patrick, a banker and lawyer. Frank had a degree in botany from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and was a hobbyist scientist. He often took Ruth and her sister on Sunday afternoons to collect specimens, especially diatoms, from steams. Ruth attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925. Ruth's mother insisted that she attend Coker College, a women's school in Hartsford, South Carolina, but her father arranged for her to attend summer courses in fear that Coker would not provide satisfactory eductation in the sciences. When she graduated in 1929, she then enrolled in the University of Virginia, earning master's degree in 1931, followed by a Ph.D. in 1934.
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