Dixy Lee Ray
Dixy Lee Ray was born in Tacoma, Washington, United States on September 3rd, 1914 and is the Politician. At the age of 79, Dixy Lee Ray biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Scientific career
Ray returned to Washington in 1945 to accept a position as an instructor in the University of Washington's zoology department. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1947 and was granted a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, which she used to do six months of postdoctoral research at Caltech. She was appointed an associate professor at the University of Washington in 1957. During her time there, she served as the Chief Scientist aboard the schooner SS Te Vega during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Her reputation in the classroom swung between wild extremes; students either "adored her or loathed her," as did faculty members. According to one scholar, she was described as "an intemperate, feeble-minded old bitch."
Producers at KCTS-TV, Seattle's PBS affiliate, were intrigued by her name as someone who could "make science exciting," so Ray proposed a weekly television show on marine biology. Animals of the Seashore, a performance by the Seashore, was a hit on campus and has helped to bring her outside of campus. Ray was invited to take over the nearly bankrupt science museum for $20,000. Ray seized the opportunity and began a top-to-bottom renovation of the center, saying, "I'll be damned if I'm going to become a landlady to a hysterical museum." The Pacific Science Center was redesigned from a traditional, exhibit-oriented museum to an interactive learning center, under Ray's direction.
Every facet of Ray's hands-on approach to running the Pacific Science Center reflected on every level. She had a police whistle on her desk that she might use to tackle loitering hippies. Jim Anderson, who would later teach fisheries science at the University of Washington, recalled a typical meeting with Ray, who worked at the Pacific Science Center in 1968.
Ray brought the Pacific Science Center back to financial stability. Senator Warren Magnuson, who was largely introduced to many of the city's most influential people, thanks in part to her tireless fundraising for the center.