Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952)
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1940
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-1451
Chemist Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952), an expert on the refrigeration of perishable foods, had just been chosen by the American Chemical Society as the 1940 recipient of the Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal to honor outstanding achievement in science by a woman. Pennington had attended the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1895) and worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1905-1919, before becoming a private consultant in 1922.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-1451
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1940
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1451]