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Women in Science
Young scholars examine obstacles faced by women throughout the world. They gather ask-an-expert websites, propose leading questions, and communicate with real female scientists.
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For Girls in Science: Women in Stem
Meet 43 groundbreaking Women in STEM! Their discoveries have saved millions of lives, pioneered modern technology, and pushed the boundaries of the universe in pursuit of knowledge. But before they were Nobel Prize winners and...
American Chemical Society
Acs: Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine
Profile of Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), a pioneer in the field of occupational health. Includes a 4-page downloadable booklet of the material.
United Nations
Unesco Institute for Statistics: Women in Science
Just 30% of researchers are women. Explore the data to see where they work and their fields of research in countries around the world.
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Innovative Lives: Stephanie Kwolek and Kevlar, the Wonder Fiber
Smithsonian site features Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of kevlar. Learn about her famous discovery and the road she took to get there. Contains links to read more about women inventors.
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4000 Years of Women in Science
A site that celebrates the place of women in scientific research since history began.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 378: Women in the Academy
Read about the struggles of scientific women to become recognized as the intellectual equals of men. This is a transcript of a radio broadcast.
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Alice Haskins Sitting With Lucia Mc Culloch, Clara H. Hasse, Mary K. Berger
(left to right): An unidentified woman (possibly Alice Haskins) sitting with U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, botanists Lucia McCulloch (1873-1955), Clara H. Hasse (1880?-1926), and Mary K. Berger
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Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox, Florence Hedges, Unknown, Edna Fawcett
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanists Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), Florence Hedges (1878-1956), unidentified woman, and Edna H. Fawcett (b. 1879). Quirk was assistant to the senior plant pathologist, USDA,...
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Raymond Frederick Maier, Nathan M. Glaser, and Barbara Jean Sherburne (Stewart)
Left to right: Psychologists Norman R. F. (Raymond Frederick) Maier (1900-1977), Nathan M. Glaser (d. 2011), and Barbara Jean Sherburne (Stewart) (b. 1914). Maier is holding one of the rats used in their experiments; Sherburne is holding...
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British Archeologist Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod (1892 1968)
Unidentified man; British archeologist Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod (1892-1968); and unidentified man. Garrod was the first woman to do research on Paleolithic humans, first woman to hold a professorship at Cambridge...
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Anna Hall, c.p. Li, Mrs. Auborn Hall, Morris Schaeffer, Mrs. Johnnie Johnson
Scientists at the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center in Montgomery, Alabama, had just discovered that the Brunhilde type of polio virus could be grown in mice. Shown, left to right, are: Mrs. Anna Hall, C.P. Li,...
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Thomas Hunt Morgan, Linus Carl Pauling, Marian Irwin Osterhout
left to right: California Institute of Technology geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and chemist Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), with botanist Marian Irwin Osterhout (1889-1973). Osterhout was educated at Bryn Mawr College and Radcliffe...
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Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt Nielsen, Knut Schmidt Nielsen, Barbara Wagner
left to right: Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918), Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915-2007), and Barbara Wagner. The Schmidt-Nielsens were professors in comparative physiology at Duke University and Wagner was a secretary in the Duke...
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Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884 1974), Florence Hedges (1878 1956)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanists Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), and Florence Hedges (1878-1956). Quirk was assistant to the senior plant pathologist, USDA, 1901-1927, and served as head of the...
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Jean Dougherty Strother With e.j. Ducayet (Right), r.c. Buyers (Left)
Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (b. 1921) (center) was a human factors engineer and test pilot for Bell Helicopter Co. in 1961 when this photograph was taken, and had just broken a helicopter altitude record (at 19,406 feet) in a Bell...
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Frederica Annis Lopez De Leo De Laguna (1906 2004), Kaj Birket Smith (1893 1977)
Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) was an anthropologist associated in 1937 with the University of Pennsylvania Museum; she had studied at Columbia during the late 1920s and had done groundbreaking research in...
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Walter Bauer, Rebecca Price Craighill Lancefield (1895 1981), and Macyln Mc Carty
Harvard University biologist Walter Bauer, Chairman of the Whitney Foundation's Scientific Advisory Committee; Rockefeller Institute microbiologist Rebecca Price Craighill Lancefield (1895-1981); and Rockefeller Institute biologist...
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Nicolai Alexandrovitch Maximov, Tatiana Krassnosselslie Maximova, Dr. Briquet
Left to right: Russian plant physiologists Nicolai Alexandrovitch Maximov and Tatiana Krassnosselslie Maximova, and "Dr. Briquet
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Dixy Lee Ray (1914 1994), Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912 1999), and Ed Westcott
left to right: Marine biologist Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994), chemist Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999), and Ed Westcott, September 17, 1968. Ray left a professorship at University of Washington to be director of the Pacific Science Center...
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Merrill L. Tribe, Mary Elizabeth Hickox Mandels (1917 2009), and Dale Sieling
Left to right: Brig. Gen. Merrill L. Tribe, microbiologist Mary Elizabeth Hickox Mandels (1917-2009), and Dale Sieling. Mandels was a leader in bioenergy research and, during her long career at the U.S. Army Natick Research Laboratory in...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Johanna Westerdijk (1883 1961)
left to right: Unidentified man, botanist and plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961), and two other women (unidentified)
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Otto Emery Jennings (1877 1964) and Grace Emma Kinzer Jennings (D. 1957)
Carnegie Museum botanist Otto Emery Jennings (1877-1964) and Grace Emma Kinzer Jennings (d. 1957). Grace Jennings was a fourth-generation Pittsburgher whose family had established one of the city's major iron foundries. She was an...
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Shirley Rich Maiman, Theodore Harold Maiman (1927 2007), and Sheri Maiman
Left to right: Shirley Rich Maiman, Theodore Harold Maiman (1927-2007), and their 8-year-old daughter Sheri Maiman, April 1966. The physicist Theodore Maiman was developer of the LASER