National Museum of American History
Women in Science in 19th-century America
September 15, 1978 – January 12, 1979
View photographs, portraits, research tools and apparatus, and publications of pioneering American women scientists.
Scientists whose accomplishments are noted include Astronomer Maria Mitchell, Carcinologist Mary Jane Rathbun, Botanist Kate Furbish, Geologist Florence Bascom, as well as the first woman admitted to a professional scientific school, Ellen Swallow Richards.
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