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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Anna Baker Yates Rapport (B. 1891)
Anna Baker Yates Rapport (b. 1891) graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1920. She taught physiology at Bryn Mawr College, 1920-1925, and later worked at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Duke University
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Helen Petrovna Sorokin (1894 1975)
Botanist Helen Petrovna Sorokin (1894-1975) taught at the University of Minnesota
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888 1969)
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969) graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1915. She stayed at the university with an appointment as a research assistant until 1931 because, despite her...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marian Irwin Osterhout (1888 1973)
Botanist Marian Irwin Osterhout (1888-1973) was educated at Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe (Ph.D., 1919) and later worked at Rockefeller Institute, 1925-1933. Her research specialty was cell permeability
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867 1934)
Polish physicist Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, sharing it with her husband Pierre in 1903 for their work on radioactivity. After his death in 1906, she continued with her...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marjorie Mac Dill Breit (1896 1987)
Marjorie MacDill Breit (1896-1987) used her undergraduate education in science and a lifelong interest in ecology and zoology to advantage during her journalistic career. She worked as a staff writer for Science Service during the 1920s...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Elizabeth Switzer (1900 1971)
Mary Elizabeth Switzer (1900-1971) was Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and co-winner of the Lasker Award in 1960 with Paul Wilson Brand (1914-2003), a...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Selma Eleanore Snyderman (B. 1916)
Selma Eleanore Snyderman, M.D. (b. 1916) began teaching pediatrics at the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center in 1944, where she specialized in pediatric nutrition. She attended the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1937; M.D.,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Katherine Pattee Hummel (B. 1904)
Geneticist Katherine Pattee Hummel (b. 1904) taught at Carleton College, Mt. Holyoke College, Cornell University, and Rutgers University before joining The Jackson Laboratory in 1943, where she became well-known for her research on...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lillian Josephine Hawes (B. 1905)
Lillian Josephine Hawes (b. 1905) graduated from Stanford University in 1928 and first served as a public health nurse in Los Angeles. This photograph was distributed when she won a National Tuberculosis Association scholarship award in...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lina Solomonova Stern (1878 1968)
Biochemist Lina Solomonova Stern (1878-1968), professor of physiology at the University of Moscow, did pioneering work on the blood-brain barrier. This photograph was distributed when she attended the Ninth International Congress of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860 1944)
Physicist and educator Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944) was the first American woman allowed to take a degree at Gt_tingen University (in 1895); she became professor of physics and department chair at Barnard College, 1903-1934. In...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Engle Pennington (1872 1952)
Chemist Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952), an expert on the refrigeration of perishable foods, had just been chosen by the American Chemical Society as the 1940 recipient of the Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal to honor outstanding...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Isabel Mc Cracken (1866 1955)
California native and entomologist Mary Isabel McCracken (1866-1955) was educated at Stanford University and taught there until her retirement in 1931. Her research encompassed work on a wide range of insects, including beetles,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ruth Murray Underhill (1883 1984)
Ruth Murray Underhill (1883-1984) was among the first female anthropologists hired by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs during the mid-1930s and was greatly involved with Navaho education projects
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ava Josephine Mc Amis (1897 1991)
Born in San Antonio, Texas, chemist Ava Josephine McAmis (1897-1991) attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College and then worked as a tutor at the University of Texas while earning her master's degree. That work led to a position at Yale...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Catherine Macfarlane (1877 1969)
Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969) was a Philadelphia gynecologist and cancer researcher. In 1951, she received a Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, jointly with Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance, for her work helping to establish cancer...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865 1950)
Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950) was a professor of anatomy at Stanford University, one of first female professors there during its first decades
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1890 1975)
Biochemist Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1890-1975) taught at Washington University Medical School. After attending Mills College (B.S., 1913) and Columbia University (M.A., 1914), she taught home economics at University of Missouri and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1892 1975)
Biochemist Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1892-1975) taught at Washington University Medical School. After attending Mills College (B.S., 1913) and Columbia University (M.A., 1914), she taught home economics at University of Missouri and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Faye Johannes Marley (1900 1992)
Between 1960 and 1970, Faye Johannes Marley (1900-1992) served as the Science Service medical writer. Before then, Marley had worked as an editor with the American Red Cross, 1943-1955. She had a B.A. from University of Missouri and M.A....
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893 1978)
Biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) served on the faculty at Yale and did pioneering studies of rhesus monkeys
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Helen Margaret Wallace (B. 1913)
Helen Margaret Wallace (b. 1913), Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College, was chair of the Medical Advisory Board to the New York chapter of the National Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy and director of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (B. 1929)
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (b. 1929)