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Edna Greenwood (1888-1972), scientist

Edna Greenwood (1888-1972), scientist

Creator: Smithsonian Institution..Subject: Greenwood, Edna Muriel Hilburn Little 1888-1972. Carmichael, Leonard 1898-. National Museum of American History (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1956..... More

Helen Marie Gunz, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Helen Marie Gunz, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9, Portraits Gui-Guz; "Helen Marie Gunz served as Assistant Librarian at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, with Hazel Gay (see SIA Digital No. 2008-1852)."

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1913

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1...

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Hahn, Otto 1879-1968..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1913..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3209]..S... More

Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972) - Public domain photogrpaph

Emma Perry Carr (1880-1972) - Public domain photogrpaph

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

Pauline Gracia Beery Mack, scientist

Pauline Gracia Beery Mack, scientist

90-105, 13, "Portraits, Maca-Macz"; "Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974) was a chemist-nutritionist who moved to Texas Women’s University from Penn State in the early 1950s. Skilled at administration and at o... More

Paul E. Teschan (1923- ), Watson Davis (1896-1967), and Marina Prajmovsky (1924-1974), 1942

Paul E. Teschan (1923- ), Watson Davis (1896-1967), and Marina Prajmov...

Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-..Subject: Teschan, Paul E. 1923-. Davis, Watson 1896-1967. Prajmovsky, Marina 1924-1974. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1942..Topic: Science fairs. Women... More

Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995)

Mildred Adams Fenton (1899-1995)

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

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1327]..Summary: Cec... More

SIA2008-3528 coat of arms, scientist

SIA2008-3528 coat of arms, scientist

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hars-Hart"; "Constance Endicott Hartt (1900-1984), known for her research on sugarcane, had taught biology at St. Lawrence University and Connecticut College for Women before moving to H... More

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1325]..Summary: Cec... More

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1326]..Summary: Cec... More

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Subject: Van de Water, Marjorie 1900-1962. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Psychology. Sociology. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0300]..Summary: From 1... More

Marian G. Hogan, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Marian G. Hogan, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hoa-Hog"; "Marian G. Hogan was described on the reverse of the photograph as ""President of Weatter [or Wealter] Services, Inc., 41 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Massachusetts."""

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Subject: Van de Water, Marjorie 1900-1962. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Sociology. Psychology. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0291]..Summary: From 1... More

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1328]..Summary: Cec... More

Mary Greig, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Mary Greig, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9, "Greig, Mary- Griffith, Igor"; "Mary Greig was an assistant in the department of public health, American Museum of Natural History, New York."

left to right: John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Norris Pierson, Jr. (b. 1929), and Cornelius P. Trowbridge (1898?-1973)

left to right: John Rock, Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994), Richard Nor...

Subject: Rock, John. Lasker, Mary. Pierson, Richard N. 1929-. Trowbridge, Cornelius P. c. 1898-1973. Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Harvard Medical School..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 19... More

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962)

Description: From 1929 until 1962, Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962) covered advances in psychology and sociology for Science Service, winning several journalism awards and the admiration of social scientists f... More

Eleanor Anthony King, scientist

Eleanor Anthony King, scientist

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kin-Kiq"; "Eleanor Anthony King (1901-1949) editor of Audubon Magazine and author of Bible Plants for American Gardens (Macmillan, 1941)."

Gustav Arthur (1902-2000) and Josephine Cooper

Gustav Arthur (1902-2000) and Josephine Cooper

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

Charlotte Gower Chapman, scientist

Charlotte Gower Chapman, scientist

90-105, 9, Portraits Gov-Goz; "Charlotte Gower Chapman (1902-1982), an ethnologist and author of Milocca: A Sicilian Village, was teaching at Lingnan University in China when the United States entered World War... More

SIA2008-5182, Tanzania, scientist

SIA2008-5182, Tanzania, scientist

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Leakey, Louis S.B."; "Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972) and his wife, archeologist and anthropologist Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey (1913-1996), digging at Oduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa."

Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore (1910-1997), and John Warren Aldrich (1906-1995)

Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan We...

Creator: American Ornithologists' Union..Subject: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-1978. Wetmore, Annie Beatrice. Aldrich, John W (John Warren) 1906-. American Ornithologists' Union..Type: Black-and-white photographs..D... More

Viola Shelly Shantz (1895-1977)

Viola Shelly Shantz (1895-1977)

Subject: Briggs, Frank P. 1894-1992. Shantz, Viola Shelly 1895-1977. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1962..Topic: Women scient... More

Frank Thone (1891-1949) interviewing Science Talent Search finalists, 1945

Frank Thone (1891-1949) interviewing Science Talent Search finalists, ...

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Thone, Frank 1891-. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1945..Topic: Science fairs..Local number: SIA RU007091 [SIA2007-0007]..Summary: Science Service b... More

Libbie Henrietta Hyman, scientist

Libbie Henrietta Hyman, scientist

90-105, 9B, Biog. Hus-Hy; "Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969) graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1915. She stayed at the university with an appointment a... More

Mary Knight Dunlap (1910-1992), scientist

Mary Knight Dunlap (1910-1992), scientist

Description: Mary Knight Dunlap (1910-1992), daughter of the psychologist Knight Dunlap (1875-1949), was the founder of the Association for Women Veterinarians...Creator/Photographer: Julian Scott..Medium: Blac... More

Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970), scientist

Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970), scientist

Subject: Foster, Margaret D (Margaret Dorothy) b. 1895. Geological Survey (U.S.). Manhattan Project (U.S.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA RU007421 [SI... More

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1509]..Summary: In 1963, Chien-shiung... More

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

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

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984)

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1...

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

Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998)

Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998)

Description: The physician Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998) became a prominent public figure as the Director of Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, a post she held from 1954 to 1982..... More

Pearl McIver (1893-1976), scientist

Pearl McIver (1893-1976), scientist

Subject: McIver, Pearl. United States Public Health Service. United States Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare Office of the Secretary..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1955..Topic: Nursing. Women s... More

Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key - Public domain portrait print

Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key - Public domain portrait print

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Ker-Kez"; Geneticist Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key (b. 1872) was the author of Heredity and Social Fitness (1920).

Patricia Brown (b. 1928), scientist

Patricia Brown (b. 1928), scientist

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

Margaret Dora Thomson (b. 1900)

Margaret Dora Thomson (b. 1900)

Subject: Thompson, Margaret Dora 1900-. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-4147]..Summary: Zoologist Margaret Dora Th... More

Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood

Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Har"; "From 1916 to 1957, Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood (1885-1979) directed the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, and ran its female-founded and female-run n... More

left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

left to right: Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-20...

Subject: Payne, Eugene H. Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011. Parke-Davis Research Laboratories..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Pharmacology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA20... More

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Dr. Brode, and Science Talent Search Winners

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Dr. Brode, and Science Talent Search Winn...

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958..Topic: Science fairs. Women scientists. Physics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1510]..Sum... More

Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968), sitting in chair

Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968), sitting in chair

Description: The distinguished British botanist Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968) taught at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1926, Science News Letter reported that "plants as well as animals have... More

Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (1913-1998)

Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (1913-1998)

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

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), standing at meeting with Arthur H. Compton and Katherine Cornell

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), standing at meeting with Arthur H. Compton a...

Description: Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) is shown here (at right) with actress Katherine Cornell and physicist Arthur H. Compton on June 6, 1946, when Meitner and Cornell were receiving awa... More

Ethel Mary Doidge (1887-1965), scientist

Ethel Mary Doidge (1887-1965), scientist

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

Josephine G. Fountain, scientist

Josephine G. Fountain, scientist

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

Frederika Vern Blankner (1901-1989)

Frederika Vern Blankner (1901-1989)

Description: A distinguished poet, scholar of Italian classics, and chronicler of Scandinavian literature, Frederika Vern Blankner (1901-1989) was a graduate of the University of Chicago. For many years, she c... More

Kendall Emerson, Alix Churchill, Eleanor Brown Merrill

Kendall Emerson, Alix Churchill, Eleanor Brown Merrill

Description: When this photograph was taken in 1935, Dr. Alix Churchill (seated in center), Associate Secretary General of the International Association for Prevention of Blindness and Executive Secretary of th... More

Mildred Clare Scoville (1892?-1969)

Mildred Clare Scoville (1892?-1969)

Subject: Scoville, Mildred Clare c. 1892-1969. National Committee for Mental Hygiene..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Social workers. Mental health..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2701]..Summa... More

Jane Blankenship Gibson - Public domain portrait print

Jane Blankenship Gibson - Public domain portrait print

Description: The caption accompanying this 1961 image reads: "Mrs. Carl Gibson who as Jane Blankenship won high science honors in school, combines her scientific work with advanced studies and homemaking." As ... More

Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)

Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (1895-1978)

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

Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957)

Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957)

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

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946

Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington...

Creator: Briggs, C.A..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Catholic University of America..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1946..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-59... More

Arlene Frances Fung, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Arlene Frances Fung, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

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

Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood

Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Har"; "From 1916 to 1957, Harvard College astronomer Margaret Harwood (1885-1979) directed the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, and ran its female-founded and female-run n... More

Marjorie MacDill Breit (1896-1987)

Marjorie MacDill Breit (1896-1987)

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

Frederick Seitz (1911-2008), Ava Helen Miller Pauling (1903-1981), Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897-1975), and Paul Weiss

Frederick Seitz (1911-2008), Ava Helen Miller Pauling (1903-1981), Det...

Description: Ava Helen Miller Pauling (1903-1981) was a noted pacifist, human rights activist, and conservationist, and a leader in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, American Civil Liberti... More

Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-2010)

Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-2010)

Subject: Collett, Stella Pecelj c. 1921-2010. Bell & Howell Co. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1414]..Summary: Stella Pecelj Collett (ca. 1922-201... More

Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

Description: During the 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Eleanor Plunkette Brown was National Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Blindness; by 1944, now married, Eleanor Brown Merrill was the ... More

Lillian Josephine Hawes, scientist

Lillian Josephine Hawes, scientist

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; Lillian Josephine Hawes (b. 1905) graduated from Stanford University in 1928 and first served as a public health nurse in Los Angeles. This photograph was distributed when she... More

Elizabeth Shull Russell (1913-2001)

Elizabeth Shull Russell (1913-2001)

Creator: American Association of University Women..Subject: Russell, Elizabeth Shull 1913-2001. University of Michigan. Columbia University. University of Chicago. Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Me.)..Type: Bl... More

Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991)

Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991)

Subject: Seibert, Florence Barbara 1897-1991. Goucher College. Yale University. University of Pennsylvania. American Chemical Society. Henry Phipps Institute..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women sci... More

Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microscope

Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microsco...

Description: Wanda Margarite Kirkbride (b. 1895) was completing graduate work in chemistry at Columbia University when she met and married Clifford Harrison Farr. When Clifford died in 1928, while they were li... More

Geneticist Katherine Pattee Hummel

Geneticist Katherine Pattee Hummel

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hum-Hunt"; "Geneticist Katherine Pattee Hummel (b. 1904) taught at Carleton College, Mt. Holyoke College, Cornell University, and Rutgers University before joining The Jackson Laboratory... More

Regina Flannery Herzfeld, scientist

Regina Flannery Herzfeld, scientist

90-105, 7, Portraits Fla-Flem; "Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004), one of the first female anthropologists in the United States, was a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Catholic University, 1935-1... More

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)

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

Mrs. H.C. Hamilton, professor, scientist

Mrs. H.C. Hamilton, professor, scientist

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Ham"; "This image of Professor and Mrs. H.C. Hamilton being photographed by psychologist Weston Ashmore Bousfield (1904-1986) was made by Marjorie Van de Water at an American Psychologic... More

Regina Flannery Herzfeld, scientist

Regina Flannery Herzfeld, scientist

90-105, 7, Portraits Fla-Flem; "Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004), one of the first female anthropologists in the United States, was a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Catholic University, 1935-1... More

SIA2008-4382 coat of arms, scientist

SIA2008-4382 coat of arms, scientist

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Jeg-Jen"; 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 establi... More

Anna ("Vesse") and Odd Dahl, scientist

Anna ("Vesse") and Odd Dahl, scientist

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

Katharine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976), sitting in lab

Katharine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976), sitting in lab

Description: Trained as an anatomist, Katharine J. Scott Bishop (1889-1976) graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1915 and, working with Herbert M. Evans, discovered the importance of Vi... More

William M. Mann (1886-1960) and Lucile Quarry Mann (1897-1986)

William M. Mann (1886-1960) and Lucile Quarry Mann (1897-1986)

Description: From 1925 to 1956, William M. Mann (1886-1960) was Director of the National Zoological Park. His wife, Lucile Quarry Mann (1897-1986) often accompanied him on collecting trips. In 1940 the Mann's w... More

Biochemist and bacteriologist Ruby Hirose

Biochemist and bacteriologist Ruby Hirose

90-105, 9B, Portraits Hir; "Biochemist and bacteriologist Ruby Hirose researched serums and antitoxins at the William S. Merrell Laboratories. In 1940, Hirose was among ten women recognized by the American Che... More

Vivien Kellems, scientist, engineer

Vivien Kellems, scientist, engineer

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kella-Kelln"; "New England industrialist Vivien Kellems (1896-1975) co-founded Kellems Cable Grips Inc., in 1927, with her brother, who had patented a special grip design that became wid... More

Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)

Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)

Subject: Macfarlane, Catharine 1877-1969..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1940. C. 1940s..Topic: Gynecology. Cancer--Research. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5682]..Summary: C... More

Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N. (1892-1994)

Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N. (1892-1994)

Creator: Wain & Baruch..Subject: Sheahan, Marion Winifred 1892-1994. National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services. American Public Health Association. National Organization for Public Health Nursi... More

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), scientist

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), scientist

Subject: McClintock, Barbara 1902-1992. Carnegie Institution of Washington Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. American Association of University Women..Type: Black-and-white pho... More

Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1940s

Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 194...

Creator: Lebenthal, James..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Joliot-Curie, Frédéric..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1940. 1940s..Topic: Physics. Women scientists. Nobel Prizes..Local number: ... More

Lois Mattox Miller, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Lois Mattox Miller, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Creator: Sonntag, W. A..Subject: Miller, Lois Mattox..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958..Topic: Cigarette filters. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-6135]..Summary: Maga... More

Ethel R. Kovach Scott, scientist

Ethel R. Kovach Scott, scientist

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Kol-Koz (2)"; "Ethel R. Kovach Scott (1918?-2004), fourth chief nurse of the U.S. Air Force, helped write the first flight nurse manual and establish the aerospace nursing course to supp... More

Mary Blade, standing at blackboard

Mary Blade, standing at blackboard

Description: In 1946, when this photograph was taken, Mary Blade was the only woman on the Cooper Union engineering faculty (where she initially taught drawing, mathematics and design) and one of few women on a... More

Anna Chao Pai (b. 1935), scientist

Anna Chao Pai (b. 1935), scientist

Creator: Burrows, Ted..Subject: Pai, Anna C. 1935-. Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Sweet Briar College..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Genetics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 ... More

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) with Science Talent Search finalists, 1946

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) with Science Talent Search finalists, 1946

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Catholic University of America..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1946..Topic: Science fairs. Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc.... More

Flora May Slosson Wuellner, scientist

Flora May Slosson Wuellner, scientist

Subject: Wuellner, Flora Slosson. University of Michigan. University of Chicago..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1945..Topic: Congregationalists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3421]..Summary: ... More

left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Y.K. Lee, and L.W. Mo

left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Y.K. Lee, and L.W. Mo

Creator: Beutler, Margarete 1876-1949..Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Lee, Y. K. Mo, L. W. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1963. 3/20/1963..Topic: Physics. Van de Graa... More

Margaret V. Dunham, standing at bank of instruments

Margaret V. Dunham, standing at bank of instruments

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

Laveta Audrey Johnson, age 17, Oak Park, Illinois; Ursula Vivian Victor, age 16, Forest Hills, New York; Anne Wagman, age 16

Laveta Audrey Johnson, age 17, Oak Park, Illinois; Ursula Vivian Victo...

90-105, 9B, "Portraits - Hitchcock, R.C."; "This Fremont Davis photograph of participants in the 8th Science Talent Institute, March 1949, shows (left to right): Laveta Audrey Johnson, age 17, Oak Park, Illinoi... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991) - Public domain portrait print

Jane Stafford (1899-1991) - Public domain portrait print

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

left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997) and Dr. Brode

left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997) and Dr. Brode

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958. 3/15/1958..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1512]..Summary... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. American Medical Association. Science Service. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.)... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991) - Public domain portrait print

Jane Stafford (1899-1991) - Public domain portrait print

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. Science Service. American Medical Association. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.)... More

Elizabeth Lee Hazen, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Elizabeth Lee Hazen, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; "In 1950, microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1888-1975) and chemist Rachel Brown (1898-1980), Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Alban... More

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), scientist

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), scientist

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1958..Topic: Physics. Women scientists. Science fairs..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1511]..Sum... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. American Medical Association. Science Service. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.)... More

Geneticist Mathilde Margarethe Lange

Geneticist Mathilde Margarethe Lange

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Lan"; "Geneticist Mathilde Margarethe Lange (1888-1974?) earned her doctorate in zoology in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1920 and, after returning to the United States, became a professor at ... More

Lucile Petry Leone, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Lucile Petry Leone, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 12, "Portraits, Leg-Lep"; "This photograph of Lucile Petry Leone (1902-1999) was distributed when she retired in 1966 as Assistant Surgeon General and Chief Nurse Officer of the U.S. Public Health Servi... More

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979), demonstrating equipment in lab

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979), demonstrating equipment in lab

Description: In 1938, when this publicity photograph was taken, physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) worked at General Electric Research Laboratories, where she did important research in surface chemis... More

Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011)

Subject: Rebstock, Mildred Catherine 1919-2011. Parke, Davis & Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1951..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientists. Antibiotics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-214... More

Ruby Ficklin Bryant (1906-2002)

Ruby Ficklin Bryant (1906-2002)

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

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)

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

Taimi Toffer Anderson (1937- ), 1956

Taimi Toffer Anderson (1937- ), 1956

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Anderson, Taimi Toffer 1937-..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1956..Topic: Science fairs. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-0105]..Summary: In ... More

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