Annette W. Coleman
Annette W. Coleman (1934 – July 10, 2023) was a Stephen T. Olney Professor Emerita of Natural History at Brown University, where she was a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. Coleman was raised in Des Moines, Iowa, and spent part of her early life in New York City, including college. She earned her B.S. in botany from Barnard College in 1955 and completed her Ph.D. in phycology, botany, and genetics at Indiana University in 1958, with time also spent conducting research at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.