Description: Paleontologist and fourth Smithsonian Secretary Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) often took his family along on collecting trips. This photograph was taken around 1907 when the family stopped More
Description: 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 More
Description: Mary Knapp Strong Clemens (1873-1965) is shown at the New York Botanical Garden with her husband, Joseph Clemens (1862-1936), an ordained Methodist minister who had become a U.S. Army Chaplain in 1 More
Description: After earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972) taught in the department of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College until becoming professor emeritus in 1946. A pionee More
Description: Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995) trained in paleontology and geology at the University of Iowa. She coauthored dozens of general science books with her husband, Carroll Lane Fenton, including Reco More
Description: In this 1935 photograph, botanist Wilmatte Porter Cockerell (1871-1957) is shown with biologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948), whom she married in 1900. In 1901, he named the ultramari More
Description: G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (1902-2000) and his wife, Josephine Cooper, are shown here at work in his office in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology, United States National Museum, now th More
Description: During the 1910s, as a young woman, Washington, D.C., native Minna P. Gill was active in the women's suffrage movement and participated in many demonstrations for women's rights. After earning her More
Description: A plant pathologist, Nellie A. Brown (1876-1956) was a member of Torrey Botanical Club while doing postgraduate work at University of California. She began working for U.S. Department of Agricultu More
Description: After Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978) received an A.M. in botany from Stanford University (1916), she joined the research and curatorial staff of the university's Dudley Herbarium. T More
Description: The biologist, Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie, was the first female member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and, in 1912, the first woman to be appointed as a university professor More
Description: Arlene Frances Fung was a native of Trinidad who had attended medical school in Ireland and in 1968 was doing chromosome research at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia...Creator/Phot More
Description: British botanist Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957), born in Leigh, Lancashire, is best known for her research on the edible seaweed Porphyra laciniata (nori). Her analysis of the nori lifecycle More
Description: Plant pathologist Mary Katherine Bryan (b. 1877) was educated at Stanford University (A.B., 1908) and worked in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1909-1934, and the Univ More
Description: In 1963, when this photograph was taken, Patricia Brown (b. 1928) was a chemical engineer working at Texas Instruments and had just been elected president of the Society of Women Engineers...Creato More
Description: Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Bird Stein Gans (1868-1944) received her education at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and New York University. At the age of twenty, Gans j More
Description: Famous as a child prodigy, Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (1913-1998) published her first book at age ten and later became a professor of literature. This photograph was used to illustrate a news story More
Description: Physiologist Mary Elizabeth Collett (b. 1888) attended Wellesley College (A.B., 1910) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1919) and had research appointments at Clark University, Karolinska More
Subject: Breit, Marjorie MacDill 1896-1987. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Journalism, Scientific. Zoology. Ecology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5654]..S More
Description: When she retired in 1961, Hazel Gay had served for 45 years as head librarian at the American Museum of Natural History in New York...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black More
Description: Carolina Amor de Fournier was associated with the Mexican journal La Prensa Médica Mexicana and was editor of Hummingbirds and Orchids of Mexico (1963)...Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: More
Description: Biochemist Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984) were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for their work on how the human body metab More
Description: Born in England, the botanist Ethel Mary Doidge (1887-1965) immigrated to South Africa as a child, was educated at the University of the Cape of Good Hope, and became one of the pioneers in South A More
Description: During the early 1960s, Josephine G. Fountain, a registered nurse who worked at the University of Florida Teaching Hospital and Clinics, invented the "Direct Suction Tracheotomy Tube" (U.S. Patent More
Description: A graduate of Mt. Holyoke, mycologist Vera Katherine Charles (1877-1954) earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1903 and then became a scientist at Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agr More
Description: In 1927, biologist Wiktorja S. Dembowski worked at the M. Nencki Institute in Warsaw, Poland...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print..: photogr More
Description: Alice Brown (1857-1948) studied anatomy at Cornell University. When she published The Black Drop (1919), a novel with scientific themes, the publisher emphasized that its "main character inherits More
Description: Ethnologist Frances Densmore (1867-1957) spent much of her career working in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology and the Library of Congress, as she collected and p More
Description: Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Brown University but is best known, along with her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, for revolutionizing management techniques. I More
Description: Odd Dahl (1899-1994) was a Norwegian adventurer who had no formal scientific training but later made great contributions to research on atomic energy. He read physics while a member of Roald Amund More
Description: Kathleen May Crossley was on the physics faculty at University of Toronto from 1920s through 1940s...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print..: p More
Description: In 1943, when this photograph was taken, Women's Army Corps Lt. Margaret V. Dunham was conducting research in the Chemical Warfare Service's Medical Division at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. A More
Description: Although she majored in chemistry at Smith College, Jane Stafford (1899-1991) spent most of her career communicating about medicine. Stafford worked at the American Medical Association before join More
Description: Col. Ruby Ficklin Bryant (1906-2002) played an important role during the Korean War as Chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1951-1955...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black More
Description: Biologist Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) began her career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but achieved fame and social influence with publication of such popular books as The Sea Around U More
Description: Plant physiologist Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951) earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University (1901) and taught at Wellesley College from 1893 to 1932. In 1929, she was elected president of the Bot More
Description: During her aviation career, from the 1930s through the 1960s, Jacqueline Cochran (d. 1980) set more speed and altitude records than any contemporary pilot, male or female, and was the first woman t More
Description: This photograph from a 1932 handmade New Year's greeting card shows nutritionist Annie Barbara Clark Callow with her husband, the physicist E.H. Callow, who worked at the Low Temperature Research S More
Description: 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 More