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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Jennie Laura Symons Simpson (1894 1977)
Born in Waterloo, Canada, geneticist Jennie Laura Symons Simpson (1894-1977) earned all her degrees from McGill University (B.A., 1917; M.S., 1921; Ph.D., 1925). In 1925 she married biochemist George Eric Simpson (d. 1927) and eventually...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870? 1954)
Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870-1954), Associate Director, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, had just received the Leslie Dana Gold Medal at the June 1937 Association for Research in 'phthalmology meeting when this...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Caroline Elizabeth Whitney (1899 1928)
Caroline Elizabeth Whitney (1899-1928) graduated from Washington University Medical School in 1924 and the following year became the first female intern at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She taught at Washington University Medical School...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Hazel Katherine Stiebeling (1896 1989)
Hazel Katherine Stiebeling (1896-1989) was a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritionist who helped to develop the daily allowance standards. In 1945, Stiebeling succeeded Louise Stanley as chief of the USDA Bureau of Home...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Helen Kemp Archbold Porter (1899 1987)
Plant physiologist Helen Kemp Archbold Porter (1899-1987) had just become the first woman to hold a chair at the Imperial College of Science and Technology when the British Information Services distributed this photograph. The press...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mathilde Margarethe Lange (1888 1974?)
Geneticist Mathilde Margarethe Lange (1888-1974?) earned her doctorate in zoology in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1920 and, after returning to the United States, became a professor at Wheaton College, 1921-1950
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919 2011)
Parke-Davis chemist Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011) was the first person to synthesize the antibiotic chloromycetin
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870 1954)
Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), zoologist and professor of natural science. Agnes Mary Claypole Moody had a twin sister, Edith Jane Claypole (1870-1915), who was also a biologist
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Katherine J. Scott Bishop (1889 1976)
Trained as an anatomist, Katherine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976) graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1915 and, working with Herbert M. Evans, discovered the importance of Vitamin E
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903 1971)
Irish-born chemist Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971) was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956 for her work in x-ray crystallography; in 1968, she became the first woman elected as President of the British...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Helen Wright Greuter (1914 1997)
Mary Helen Wright Greuter (1914-1997) was an astronomer and author of Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell. This photograph was part of the publisher's publicity materials
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891 1974)
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), chemist-nutritionist
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Elizabeth Roboz Einstein (1904 1995)
Biochemist and neuroscientist Elizabeth Roboz Einstein (1904-1995) had just left the Cornell University Sugar Research Foundation joined the Food Research Laboratory at Stanford Research Institute when Stanford University distributed...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Florence Barbara Seibert (1897 1991)
Biochemist Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991) developed the skin test for tuberculosis. After graduating from Goucher College, she worked as a chemist during World War I and then went to Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Irene Amy Patchett Smith (1887 1989)
University of California anatomist Irene Amy Patchett Smith (1887-1989)
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marina Prajmovsky Meyers (1924 1974)
Science Talent Search winner Marina Prajmovsky (Meyers) (1924-1974) used her scholarship to attend Radcliffe College, where she majored in biology. She then received her M.D. at Yale University, conducted research on eye diseases, and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894 1991)
Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991) attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning the A.B. in chemistry in 1915 and the M.A. in 1916. Simpson went on to earn the first Ph.D. in anatomy conferred in the University of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (B. 1909)
Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909) was an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory and had just discovered three new ring nebulae in the Milky Way when this photograph was taken, March 1936
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904 2004)
Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004)
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Wynne Sharples Ballinger (1923 2008)
As a pediatrician and mother, Wynne Sharples (Ballinger) (1923-2008) became known for her advocacy work on cystic fibrosis. In 1945, she was working in the biological laboratories at Radcliffe College and then trained at Columbia...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Charlotte Gower Chapman (1902 1982)
Charlotte Gower Chapman (1902-1982)
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Margaret Morris Hoskins (1886 1955)
After teaching in the department of microscopic anatomy at the University of Arkansas Medical School, 1921-1925, Margaret Morris Hoskins (1886-1955) joined the department of dentistry at New York University
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Alice Freeland Maxwell (1890 1961)
Alice Freeland Maxwell (1890-1961) was clinical professor of obstetrics at University of California Medical School
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916 1981)
After earning Ph.D. in botany from University of North Carolina, Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981) worked as a mycologist at The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she discovered cycloheximide, an anti-fungal agent widely used...