Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elisabeth Gantt

Molecular geneticist and distinguished professor, Dr. Elisabeth Gantt, was a research associate at the Smithsonian's Radiation Biology Laboratory where she studied algae photosynthesis, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996 when only 5 percent of the members were women. #Groundbreaker 

 

Portrait of woman smiling in lab.

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