![Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTcvMDMvMjIvZmxvcmEtd2FtYmF1Z2gtcGF0dGVyc29uLTE4NDctMTkyOC11bmNvbmZpcm1lZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/63/webp "Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]")
Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847-1928) [unconfirmed]
Subject: Patterson, Flora W (Flora Wambaugh) 1847-1928. United States Dept. of Agriculture..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Mycology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1344]..Su... More
Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), working with crab specimens
Description: Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943) worked for the United States Fish Commission and later at the United States National Museum in the Department of Marine Invertebrates. She began her work as an unpaid ... More
Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), scientist
Creator: Pearce, John Howard..Subject: Rathbun, Mary Jane 1860-1943. United States Fish Commission. United States National Museum Division of Marine Invertebrates..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1927.... More
Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)
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
Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull
90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hu-Hub"; "Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952); and psychologist James Burt Miner (1873-1943), taken by Marjorie Van de Water, at the American Psychological As... More
Winifred Phillips Hathaway - Public domain photogrpaph
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Has-Hau"; "Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870?-1954), Associate Director, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, had just received the Leslie Dana Gold Medal at the June 1937 As... More
Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954)
Subject: Moody, Agnes Mary Claypole 1870-1954..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1024]..Summary: Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), zoologist... More
Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-S...
Subject: Mott-Smith, Morton Churchill 1877-1944. Science Service..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Journalism, Scientific..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1130]..Summary: left to right:... More
May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858-1943)
Subject: Slosson, May Gorslin Preston 1858-1943. Cornell University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Suffragists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3435]..Summary: May Gorslin Preston Slosson (18... More
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
Gabriele Rabel (b. 1880), scientist
Creator: Davis, Watson 1896-1967..Subject: Rabel, Gabriele. Science Service. University of Cambridge Archives. British Association for the Advancement of Science..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1938. ... More
Mechanical engineer Alfred E. Gibson
90-105, 9, Unmarked Folder #1; "Mechanical engineer Alfred E. Gibson (b. 1883?) and his wife are shown observing a welding operation, 1938. The couple, who were both involved in The Wellman Engineering Company... More
Botanist Marian Irwin Osterhout
90-105, 9B, "Portraits, In-Iz"; "Botanist Marian Irwin Osterhout (1888-1973) was educated at Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe (Ph.D., 1919) and later worked at Rockefeller Institute, 1925-1933. Her research specialty w... More
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
Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934), sitting at desk
Description: Ichthyologist Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934) earned both the first (Syracuse, 1889) and second (Chicago, 1896) biology doctorates awarded to women in the United States. She spent most of her car... More
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)
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
Louise Harrison, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Harr"; Louise Harrison is identified as conducting research in anatomy at the Medical School of Washington University.
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), c. 1935
Creator: Science Service..Subject: Joliot-Curie, Irène 1897-1956. Joliot-Curie, Frédéric..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1935..Topic: Physics. Women scientists. Nobel Prizes..Local number: SIA Acc.... More
Zoologist Elizabeth T. Kinney, scientist
90-105, 11, "Portraits, Kin-Kiq"; Zoologist Elizabeth T. Kinney was at the University of Pittsburgh when this photograph was taken.
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
Louise Harrison, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Harr"; Louise Harrison is identified as conducting research in anatomy at the Medical School of Washington University.
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."
Helen M. Hierholzer - Public domain portrait print
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hia-Hig"; "Helen M. Hierholzer was a psychologist at Catholic University who, with Harriette E. Linfert, developed a scale for measuring the mental development of infants during the firs... More
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
nnings"; "Johns Hopkins University protozoologist Herbert Spencer Jenn...
90-105, 10, "Portraits, Herbert S. Jennings"; "Johns Hopkins University protozoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947) and his wife. This is most likely his first wife, artist Mary Louise Burridge Jenning... More
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
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)."
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
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."
Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934), c. 19...
Creator: Science Service..Subject: Curie, Marie 1867-1934. Curie, Pierre 1859-1906..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1903..Topic: Nobel Prizes. Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [... More
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family campsite in the Canadian ...
Description: Collecting trips for Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), paleontologist and fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, were often a family affair. This 1910 photograph shows their campsite... More
Nellie A. Brown (1876-1956) - Public domain botanical illustration
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
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
Minna P. Gill, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives
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
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
Wyoming native June Etta Downey
90-105, 7, Portraits Dos-Doz; "Wyoming native June Etta Downey (1875-1932) was a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Wyoming, 1915-1932. She became close friends with chemist E.E. Sloss... More
Florence Hedges - Public domain portrait print
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hea-Hed"; "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."
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
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
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
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 (1896-1...
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
Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (b. 1890)
Description: Botanist Matilda Moldenhauer (b. 1890) was completing graduate work at Harvard University (Ph.D., 1920) when she met biologist Sumner Cushing Brooks. During their marriage, Matilda and Sumner cond... More
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
Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881-1963)
Description: Pathologist Gladys Rowena Henry Dick (1881-1963), shown in this 1927 photo, was co-developer of a vaccine for scarlet fever with her husband George Frederick Dick (1881-1967). Born in Nebraska, Gl... More
Miss McGrath - Public domain drawing
Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Microfilm industry..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5685]..Summary: Miss McGrath" (This young woman is shown with what may be an early version of a microform rea... More
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
Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)
Subject: Sabin, Florence Rena 1871-1953. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Medicine. Anatomy..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2629]..Summary: Florence... More
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
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)
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
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
Bird Stein Gans (1868-1944). 1920s Japan, public domain image.
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
Helen Miles Davis (1895-1957) and Francis Ernest Lloyd (1868-1947)
Subject: Davis, Helen Miles 1895-1957..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5365]..Summary: Helen Miles Davis (1895-1957), chemist and wife of Science Service director Watso... More
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
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)
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
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
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
Vera Katherine Charles (1877-1954)
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
Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)
Subject: Sabin, Florence Rena 1871-1953. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Medicine. Anatomy..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2627]..Summary: Florence... More
Wiktorja S. Dembowski, scientist
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
Sophia A. Satina (1879-1975) and Albert Francis Blakeslee (1874-1954),...
Description: Cytologist Sophia A. Satina (1879-1975), shown with geneticist Albert Francis Blakeslee, was born in Russia, where she taught at the Women's College of Moscow until 1921. Satina's research collabo... More
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
Frances Densmore (1867-1957), scientist
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
Elizabeth M. Bright, sitting in lab
Description: Between 1918 and 1924, physiologist Elizabeth M. Bright, then affiliated with the Laboratory of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, worked on the effects of radiation, publishing in such journals a... More
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
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
Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872-1948)
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
Ruth Winkley, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives
Subject: Winkley, Ruth. University of Michigan. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1397... More
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
Geneticist Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key
90-105, 11, "Portraits, Ker-Kez"; Geneticist Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key (b. 1872) was the author of Heredity and Social Fitness (1920).
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
Mary Katherine Bryan (b. 1877), scientist
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
Marie Agnes Hinrichs - Public domain portrait print
90-105, 9B, Portraits Hin-Hjo-Hl; "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 ... More
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
Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953)
Subject: Sabin, Florence Rena 1871-1953. Anatomy. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Medicine..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2628]..Summary: Florence... More
Eunice Rockwood Oberly (1878-1921)
Subject: Oberly, Eunice R (Eunice Rockwood) 1878-1921. United States Bureau of Plant Industry..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women librarians..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-0623]..Summary: ... More
Estrella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957), standing outside holding speci...
Description: Estrella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957) taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1913-1933, and then continued her groundbreaking genetics research on the order Orthoptera at the University of ... More
Mary Elizabeth Collett (b. 1888)
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
Margaret Alger Hayden, scientist
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; Margaret Alger Hayden (b. 1884) was a professor of chemistry at Wellesley College during the 1920s.
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)
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
Mary Constance Blair (1877-1955), standing outside building
Description: Mary Constance Blair (1877-1955) was a professor of botany at Northwestern University, where she had earned an M.A. in 1918 and a Ph.D. in ecology in 1922, the first such degree awarded at the scho... More
Alice Brown (1857-1948), scientist
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
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), sitting at desk
Description: First hired by Harvard College Observatory to carry out astronomical calculations, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) eventually became one of the foremost American astronomers, known especially for her... More
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
Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hek-Hem"; "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 Toro... More
Carrie M. Derick (1862-1941), standing outside building
Description: The botanist Carrie M. Derick (1862-1941) was the first female university professor in Canada, and became a full professor at McGill University in 1912. This photograph may have been taken by jour... More
Bacteriologist Hilda Hempl Heller
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hek-Hem"; "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 Toro... More
Mlle. Marchal, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives
Subject: Marchal, Mlle. College de France. American Chemical Society. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1925. C. 1925..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientist... More
Margaret Morris Hoskins, scientist
90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Has-Hau"; "After teaching in the department of microscopic anatomy at the University of Arkansas Medical School, 1921-1925, Margaret Morris Hoskins (1886-1955) joined the department of d... More
Russian soil chemist A.N. Goudilina
90-105, 9, Portraits Gov-Goz; "Russian soil chemist A.N. Goudilina was attending the First International Congress of Soil Science conference in Washington, D.C., June 13-22, 1927, when this photograph was taken... More