Sallie W. Chisholm
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- Sallie Chisholm has always been interested in ocean life. She grew up next to Lake Superior, so water has always been such a big part of her life.She wanted to learn more.
- This fascination of hers led to the discovery, in 1986, of the microorganism; Prochlorococcus. Prochlorococcus was discovered with an instrument initially developed for cancer research. Because of Sallies research, we now know that these organisms are the most abundant photosynthetic cells on earth.
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- Sallie Chisholm had always been interested in life, like photophalyton, under the microscope. Her great interest and work in Marine microbiology carried her to MIT!
- "I sometimes refer to sea water as dissolved information"
- At MIT Sallie Chisholm taught Environmental Science and Ecology for more than thirty years!
- Sallie Watson Chisholm is now known as a "U.S. biological oceanographer " who is an "expert in the ecology and evolution of ocean microbes".
- Thanks to Chisholms research and discoveries we all know more about the "ocean planet" around us.
- Sallie Chisholm ended up also writing 4 books for the "young minds" of the world. These books are: Living Sunlight (How Plants Bring the Earth to Life), Ocean Sunlight (How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas), Rivers of Sunlight (How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth), and Buried Sunlight.
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