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Women in Science

Explore women in science history through the Smithsonian's collections and meet some of our scientists. See more from Smithsonian Institution Archives' Women in Science Wednesday.


Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980)

Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980)

Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980)

Skin & Bones - Meet the Scientist: Doris Cochran (new version)

Doris M. Cochran Holding Frog

Doris M. Cochran with Snake, 1954

JoGayle Howard with Clouded Leopard Cub

Elizabeth Roemer (1929- ), at her desk at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff (Arizona) Station, c. 1963

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (b. 1929)

Grace Murray Hopper

Microscope, Mayflower, Sally Ride

Pin, Sally Ride Science

Plaque, Newsweek, Space Woman Cover, Sally Ride

Charlotte Davis (1924-2005)

Florence de Loiselle Lowther (1884-1970)

Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954)

Viola Shelly Schantz (1895-1977)

Ruth Winkley

Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969)

Jane Blankenship Gibson

Taimi Toffer Anderson (1937- ), 1956

Muriel A. Case (1901-1981), sitting in lab

Wiktorja S. Dembowski

Willey Glover Denis (1879-1929)

Anna Chao Pai (b. 1935)

Margaret Alger Hayden (1884-1969)

Elizabeth T. Kinney

Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909)

Olive Swezy (b. 1878)

Lois Lockard MacKay (1898-1978)

Agnes J. Quirk

Nelli Elizabeth Presho

Elizabeth Caroline Crosby (1888-1983), sitting in lab with microscope

Mary Jane Rathbun Working with Specimens

JoGayle Howard at dissecting microscope, 1982


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