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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)
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Margaret Mann Lesley (1891 1988)
Geneticist and cytologist Margaret Mann Lesley (1891-1988) earned a Ph.D. from University of California in 1921 and worked primarily at the Department of Horticulture, University of California Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Stuart Mac Dougall (B. 1885)
Mary Stuart MacDougall (b. 1885) was educated at Randolph-Macon (A.B., 1912), University of Chicago (M.S., 1917), and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1925). She was a professor of biology and eventually department head at Agnes Scott...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Titiana Krassnosselslie Maximova
Russian plant physiologist Titiana Krassnosselslie Maximova. This is a print of a drawing done in 1931
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894 1976)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976), Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, was an English-American philosopher and mathematician known for her theoretical work on protein structure. In 1939, she came to work at Johns Hopkins University...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Frances Jean Mac Innes (B. 1892)
Plant pathologist and mycologist Frances Jean MacInnes (b. 1892) was working at Radcliffe College when this photograph was taken. She had attended the University of Illinois (B.S. in agriculture, 1916), University of Minnesota (M.S.,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lillien Jane Martin (1851 1943)
Psychologist Lillien Jane Martin (1851-1943) taught high school science after earning her A.B. from Vassar College. She then studied at the University of Gottingen (1894-1898) and became a professor of psychology at Stanford University,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Margaret Alger Hayden (B. 1884)
Margaret Alger Hayden (b. 1884) was a professor of chemistry at Wellesley College during the 1920s
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Margaret Reed Lewis (1881 1970)
Physiologist and anatomist Margaret Reed Lewis (1881-1970), an authority on tumors, had served as an assistant to Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia and then worked as a research collaborator in the embryology department of the Carnegie...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Maud Amanda Merrill (1888 1985)
Psychologist Maud Amanda Merrill (1888-1985) taught psychology at Stanford University, 1920-1947, but only became a full professor in 1947. She had trained at Oberlin College (A.B., 1911) and Stanford (Ph.D., 1923)
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Maud Leonora Menten (1879 1960)
Canadian-born physician and biochemist Maud Leonora Menten (1879-1960) made important contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Nora Mae (Mrs. Clifton D.) Lowe
This photograph of Nora Mae (Mrs. Clifton D.) Lowe was distributed when she chaired the ladies entertainment committee for the 77th annual convention of American Veterinary Association, in Washington, D.C., October 28, 1940. The wife of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ruth May Tunnicliff (1876 1946)
Ruth May Tunnicliff (1876-1946) conducted research on bacteriology and immunity at John McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases in Chicago during the 1920s. She attended Vassar College (A.B., 1896) and Rush Medical College...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Willey Glover Denis (1879 1929)
Pioneering biochemist Willey Glover Denis (1879-1929) studied at Sophie Newcomb College (Tulane University), and received a Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1907; after research which included a productive scientific collaboration...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Barbara Mc Clintock (1902 1992)
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, shown in her laboratory. This photograph was distributed when McClintock received the American Association of University Women...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Charlotte Haywood (1897 1970?)
Charlotte Haywood (1897-1970?) graduated from Mount Holyoke College, (B.A., 1919), Brown University (M.A., 1921), and University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1927) and spent her summers during the 1920s doing research in physiology at Woods...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Dorita Anne Norton (1931 1972)
When this photograph was published in 1968, crystallographer Dorita Anne Norton (1931-1972) was on the faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1960-1970. Author of the Atlas of Steroid Structure, Norton had attended...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Jeanne Helen Osiecki (B. 1926)
A native of Switzerland, organic chemist Jeanne Helen Osiecki (b. 1926) had received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1960 and began working at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in 1961. When this photograph was distributed, Osiecki...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Johanna Westerdijk (1883 1961)
Botanist and plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961) was one of the first women appointed as a professor in a Dutch university; she taught at the University of Utrecht from 1917 until 1952
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lillian Mary Moore (1887 1929)
Lillian Mary Moore (1887-1929) earned her Ph.D. from the department of physiology at the University of California, and then taught there from 1923 to 1929. Moore's research focused on regulation of body temperature