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  1. Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934) earned both the first (Syracuse, 1889) and second (Chicago, 1896) biology doctorates awarded to women in the United States.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Cornelia Maria Clapp

    • Date: May 14, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  3. Crystallographer Dorita Anne Norton (1931-1972) was on the faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo and authored the Atlas of Steroid Structure.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dorita Anne Norton

    • Date: July 9, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  5. Estrella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957) conducted groundbreaking genetics research on the order Orthoptera at the University of Iowa from 1935 to 1941.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Estrella Eleanor Carothers

    • Date: May 21, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  7. Organic chemists Fern P. Rathe and her co-scientists, Karl August Folkers (1906-

    Women in Science Wednesday: Fern P. Rathe

    • Date: July 17, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  9. Biochemist Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991) developed the skin test for tuberculosis and received the American Chemical Society's Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal for development of a pure tuberculin, which had made reliable skin tests possible.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Florence Barbara Seibert

    • Date: April 9, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  11. Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953), anatomist and pioneering medical researcher, was the first woman to hold a full professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Florence Rena Sabin

    • Date: March 19, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  13. Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968) was a distinguished British botanist who discovered that

    Women in Science Wednesday: Kathleen Beyer Blackburn

    • Date: April 30, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  15. Biochemist Lina Solomonova Stern (1878-1968), professor of physiology at the University of Moscow, did pioneering work on the blood-brain barrier.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Lina Solomonova Stern

    • Date: August 20, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  17. Geneticist and cytologist Margaret Mann Lesley (1891-1988) published extensively with her husband James W. Lesley (1888-1982) on tomato breeding and genetics. She was known for her cytological analyses.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Mann Lesley

    • Date: June 18, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  19. Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011). Payne was the first person to use chloromycetin on humans and Rebstock, the leader of the Parke-Davis Research Laboratories team, was the first person to synthesize the drug.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Mildred Catherine Rebstock

    • Date: September 24, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  21. Penelope Jo Parsons [Maddy] won the Science Talent Search with her exhibit,

    Women in Science Wednesday: Penelope Jo Parsons

    • Date: January 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  23. Brazilian aviation expert and pilot Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1902-1999) was the first person to obtain a U.S. commercial pilot's license with additional ratings as instructor. She had made her first solo flight in 1922, at the age of 18 and was the first Brazilian woman to make a cross-country flight.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Anesia Pinheiro Machado

    • Date: June 25, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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