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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Pearl Mc Iver (1893 1976)

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Pearl McIver (1893-1976) was the first United States Public Health Service consultant on nursing administration and served as chief of public health nursing services at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. She received...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Anna Chao Pai (B. 1935)

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When this photograph was distributed, Anna Chao Pai (b. 1935) was a predoctoral student in the Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, working with Dr. Salome Waelsch on developmental genetics and cross-breeding...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Nelli Elizabeth Presho

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Nelli Elizabeth Presho taught pharmacology at Stanford University Medical School during the 1920s
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Maud Slye (1879 1954)

For Students 9th - 10th
Maud Slye (1879-1954) was a pathologist and noted cancer researcher at the University of Chicago. A descendant of John Alden of the Plymouth Colony, Slye had attended the University of Chicago in 1896 with little money but, as her New...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Olive Swezy (B. 1878)

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A zoologist who did much of her work at the Scripps Institute and University of California, Olive Swezy (b. 1878) was known for her work on the ovarian chromosome cycle. She attended University of California (B.S., 1913; M.S., 1914;...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Wiktorja S. Dembowski

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Biologist Wiktorja S. Dembowski worked at the Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology in Warsaw, Poland, during the 1920s; her husband, biologist Jan Bohdan Dembowski (1889-1963) was the first president of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ethel Grace Stiffler

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Ethel Grace Stiffler was a botanist who studied at Goucher College (A.B., 1922) and University of Pennsylvania (A.M., 1924). She may have been teaching at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, when this photograph was taken
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Elizabeth T. Kinney

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Zoologist Elizabeth T. Kinney was at the University of Pittsburgh when this photograph was taken
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lois Lockard Mac Kay

For Students 9th - 10th
Biochemist Lois Lockard MacKay, Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School, collaborated often with her husband Eaton M. MacKay in research on renal hypertrophy
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Patricia A. Mc Broom

For Students 9th - 10th
Journalist and anthropologist Patricia A. McBroom wrote for Science News from 1965-1969. She is the author of Behavioral Genetics (1980) and The Third Sex (1986)
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Eileen R. L. Reed

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Australian plant pathologist Eileen R.L. Reed, University of Western Australia, represented the Royal Society of Western Australia at the 19th Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1928
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Grace A. Peterson

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Mycologist Grace A. Peterson graduated from Cornell University in 1926 and was still on the staff of the Cornell Department of Plant Pathology in 1938
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Gibson Smith

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1921, Mary Gibson Smith was a psychology researcher in Birmingham, England
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Veronica Zavatone

For Students 9th - 10th
Veronica Zavatone, a clinical research fellow at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, had just been awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer Fellowship. Zavatone's work would focus on patient management and research activities,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Elaine Zworykin

For Students 9th - 10th
Elaine Zworykin, the daughter of Vladimir K. Zworykin, vice-president and technical consultant to RCA Laboratories, shown with an electron microscope, which her father helped to develop. Elaine Zworykin was then a mineralogist with the...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: a.n. Goudilina

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Russian soil chemist A.N. Goudilina in Washington, D.C., June 13-22, 1927
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Agnes J. Quirk

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Agnes J. Quirk was a plant pathologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Laboratory of Plant Pathology, where she worked on crown gall disease
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Helen D. Young

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Helen D. Young was a zoology researcher at Carleton College when this photograph was taken
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Jessie Stickel

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Jessie Stickel was a bacteriologist at the University of California Medical School
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Anne S. Jones

For Students 9th - 10th
This photograph of Anne S. Jones was distributed in connection with her appointment in April 1965 as a research associate at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, where her work focused on protein antigens and antibody...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mlle. Marchal

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Mlle. Marchal, Graduate of Sciences, Professor of Chemistry at College de France. This photograph was distributed in connection with the fall 1925 joint meeting of American Chemical Society, and International Union of Pure and Applied...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Pauline Kirby

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined the ANC in 1926 and had served as the U.S. Army's assistant...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Edith Kroupa

For Students 9th - 10th
Austrian research chemist Edith Kroupa, 1934. The original caption dated September 18, 1934, reads: "While revolution upset Vienna, Miss Edith Kroupa, research chemist working with a new method of microchemical analysis in the laboratory...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Jane Swanson

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1968, medical technologist Jane Swanson was the first recipient of the Ivor Dunsford Memorial Award, given by the American Association of Blood Banks, for her discoveries at the Minneapolis Memorial Blood Bank, including several...