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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marie Agnes Hinrichs (B. 1892)
Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1923. After teaching at the university from 1926 to 1934, Hinrichs received an M.D. from Rush Medical College and joined the faculties at...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Lura Sherrill (1888 1968)
Mary Lura Sherrill (1888-1968) was head of the department of chemistry, Mount Holyoke College and, in 1947, had just received the Francis P. Garvan Medal. She had attended Randolph-Macon College (A.B., 1909) and University of Chicago...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Gerharda Wilbrink (1875 1962)
Gerharda Wilbrink (1875-1962) was a Dutch plant pathologist who specialized on sugar cane diseases in Java. Wilbrink published on this topic during 1920s and devised a well-known medium for growing bacteria called "Wilbrink's agar."
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Jane Rathbun (1860 1943)
Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943) worked for the United States Fish Commission and later at the United States National Museum in the Division of Marine Invertebrates
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Abby Howe Turner (1875 1957)
Abby Howe Turner (1875-1957) founded the department of physiology at Mt. Holyoke College and taught there from 1896 to 1940
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ann Haven Morgan (1882 1966)
The zoologist Ann Haven Morgan (1882-1966) began her career as an assistant to Cornelia Clapp at Mt. Holyoke College. After receiving a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1912), Morgan did research at the Marine Biological Laboratory and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Florence Peebles (1874 1956)
Florence Peebles (1874-1956) was a research biologist who taught zoology at Bryn Mawr College, 1897-1919, and later moved to California Christian College, 1928-1942
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Hilda Hempl Heller (B. 1891)
Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller (b. 1891) worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The photograph was taken by Watson Davis at a scientific meeting in Toronto, Canada, August 1924
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: June Etta Downey (1875 1932)
Wyoming native June Etta Downey (1875-1932)
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Laurel Van Der Wal (D. 2009)
Pioneering female aeronautical engineer Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009) (later Laurel van der Wal Roennau) had had a brief career as a model, art instructor, and deputy sheriff before training to be a pilot during World War II; she returned...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Charlotte Davis (1924 2005)
Charlotte Davis (later Charlotte Davis Mooers) worked with information retrieval and programming language research from World War II through the early 1990s
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Chien Shiung Wu (1912 1997)
Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor of physics at Columbia University, shown with a "Dr. Brode" (probably Wallace Brode) and a group of Science Talent Search winners, 1958. Most of the other people are cropped out
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Clara H. Hasse (1880? 1926)
Clara H. Hasse (1880?-1926) was an assistant horticulturist and botanist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and later worked at the Florida Experiment Station
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Florence Hedges (1878 1956)
Florence Hedges (1878-1956) was a pioneering plant pathologist who worked for most of her career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lucia Mc Culloch (1873 1955)
Lucia McCulloch (1873-1955) was an assistant pathologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry, where she worked on crown gall and gladiolus diseases and pests and collaborated with botanist Nellie Adalesa Brown
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mildred Trotter (1899 1991)
Anatomist and anthropologist Mildred Trotter (1899-1991), graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1920 and received Ph.D. from Washington University in 1924; except for serving as a U.S. Army forensic anthropologist following World War II,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Penelope Jo Parsons
Penelope Jo Parsons [Maddy] is shown standing in front of her Science Talent Search exhibit ("Algebraic Properties for a General Power Set") in March 1968. A high school student from San Diego, California, Parsons won a $4000 scholarship...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Alice Hamilton (1869 1970)
An expert in occupational health issues, Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) was Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Hamilton did additional research in Germany...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ida May Mellen (1877 1970)
Biologist and ichthyologist Ida May Mellen (1877-1970) was an expert on fish diseases and worked at the New York Aquarium, 1916-1929. She wrote numerous books and articles about marine biology
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ingeborg Schmidt (B. 1899)
Born in Estonia and trained in medicine in Germany, ophthalmologist Ingeborg Schmidt (b. 1899) did research on color vision. She had worked as a research assistant in Tubingen and Berlin, 1927-1935, and in aviation medicine at the...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Louise Stanley (1883 1954)
Chemist Louise Stanley (1883-1954) was a professor of home economics and department chair at the University of Missouri, 1907-1923, before moving to Washington, D.C., to become the chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Louise Pearce (1885 1959)
Physician and pathologist Louise Pearce (1885-1959) was known for her work on sleeping sickness. She trained at Stanford University (A.B., 1907) and Johns Hopkins University (M.D., 1912). After working for many years at the Rockefeller...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Margaret Mead (1901 1978)
In this photography taken at the New York Academy of Sciences in June 1968, anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) is talking to journalists. The person in background appears to be chemist Linus Pauling (1901-1994). Mead was then...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Marguerite Stagira Wilcox
Botanist Marguerite Stagira Wilcox worked at the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, from 1921 through the mid-1950s, where her research focused on fungus diseases of small fruit. She served as Secretary of the...