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R. Adrienne Weill (B. 1903) and John Phillip Nielsen (B. 1911)
left to right: French physicist and engineer R. Adrienne Weill (b. 1903) and John Phillip Nielsen (b. 1911). Nielsen, head of the metallurgical laboratory at New York University's College of Engineering, is shown demonstrating a...
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Theodore Leslie Shear (1880 1945) and Josephine Platner Shear
left to right: Archeologists Theodore Leslie Shear (1880-1945) and Josephine Platner Shear, with statuette of Apollo Lykeios, July 27, 1936. He was professor of classical archeology at Princeton University, best known for excavation of...
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Chien Shiung Wu (1912 1997), Dr. Brode, and Science Talent Search Winners
Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor of physics at Columbia University, shown with a "Dr. Brode" (probably Wallace Brode) and a group of Science Talent Search winners, 1958
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Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919 2011)
left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011). Payne was the first person to use chloromycetin on humans and Rebstock, the leader of the Parke-Davis Research Laboratories team, was the first person to...
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Nellie P. Eastman Lyon and Elias Potter Lyon (1867 1937)
Left to right: Nellie P. Eastman Lyon and Elias Potter Lyon (1867-1937). Physiologist Elias Potter Lyon (1867-1937) was dean of School of Medicine at University of Minnesota. This photograph may have been taken at the Marine Biological...
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Unidentified Man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912 2003)
Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003), Sinclair Oil Company paleontologist, at a U.S. Geological Survey meeting, December 1937. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Michigan, she was first woman employed as a...
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Unidentified Woman and Edward Dorris Mc Alister (B. 1901)
An unidentified woman and Edward Dorris McAlister (b. 1901) are shown working at the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Radiation and Organisms in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The apparatus shown was being used to measure the strength of...
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Elizabeth Caroline Crosby (1888 1983), Sitting in Lab With Microscope
A well-known authority on the anatomy of the brain, Elizabeth Caroline Crosby (1888-1983) was first woman to receive a full professorship at the University of Michigan Medical School and was a recipient of the National Medal of Science...
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Helen Miles Davis (1895 1957) and Francis Ernest Lloyd (1868 1947)
Helen Miles Davis (1895-1957), chemist and wife of Science Service director Watson Davis, is shown (at left) with Canadian botanist and McGill University professor Francis Ernest Lloyd (1868-1947). They are probably standing in front of...
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Chien Shiung Wu (1912 1997), y.k. Lee, and l.w. Mo
The experiments of Columbia University physicists (left to right) Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Y.K. Lee, and L.W. Mo confirmed the theory of conservation of vector current. In the experiments, which took several months to complete,...
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Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt Nielsen (B. 1918) With Her Children
Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918), with her children (left to right) Mimi (age 5), Bent (age 9), and Astrid (age 11). They are shown examining study materials to be taken on an African expedition. The caption provided with the...
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Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1888 1975) and Rachel Brown (1898 1980)
In 1950, microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1888-1975) and chemist Rachel Brown (1898-1980), Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, developed an effective antifungal agent (nystatin) for...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Chien Shiung Wu (1912 1997) and Dr. Brode
Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor of physics at Columbia University, with "Dr. Brode" (probably Wallace Brode)
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Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847 1928) Unconfirmed
This is probably the plant pathologist Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928), the first woman mycologist at U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Jose' Leal Prado and Eline S. Prado
left to right: Brazilian scientists Jos L?eal Prado and Eline S. Prado were on a Fulbright scholarship, working at the National Heart Institute on a wasp-milking project, when this photograph was distributed. They are currently in the...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary N. Crawford
Physician Mary N. Crawford worked at the Serum Exchange of the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, where, in 1962, she discovered that she was one of a few people in the world with the rare blood type Lu (a-b-) and that her blood might...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Winifred May De Kok (1893 1969) & Her Children
South African born writer and broadcaster Winifred May de Kok (1893-1969) had attended medical school in England during the 1920s and was in medical practice until 1953, when she became a television broadcaster, engaging in discussions...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Helen Alvina Hunscher (Wilkinson) (1904 1978)
In October 1948, biochemist Helen Alvina Hunscher (Wilkinson) (1904-1978) presided at the American Dietetic Association as president and chair of the House of Delegates
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900 1979)
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979), astrophysicist at Harvard College Observatory, was known for her research on stellar spectra
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Helen Alvina Hunscher Wilkinson (1904 1978)
Helen Alvina Hunscher Wilkinson (1904-1978) was a biochemist who was professor and department chair at Case Western University. In 1948, Hunscher, was president and chairman of the House of Delegates for the American Dietetic...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Elise Depew Strang L'esperance (1878 1959)
Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance (1878-1959), Cornell University, shown here in 1951 with her Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, was a pioneer in cancer treatment for women and had received the award jointly with Catherine Macfarlane....
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Elizabeth Bennett Ritter (1860 1949)
Mary Elizabeth Bennett Ritter (1860-1949) was a physician and the wife of biologist William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944), one of the founders of Science Service. This photograph was published in the Berkeley Daily Gazette on her 87th...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Florence De Loiselle Lowther (1884 1970)
Zoologist Florence de Loiselle Lowther (1884-1970) earned her A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia University, and became a professor at Barnard College
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ruth Colvin Starrett Mc Guire (1893 1950)
Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950) was a plant pathologist known for her work on sugar cane diseases. She attended Indiana University (A.B., 1914; M.A., 1916) and worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant...