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  1. Plant physiologist Helen Kemp Archbold Porter (1899-1987) was the first woman to hold a chair at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Helen Kemp Archbold Porter

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

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  3. Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962) won several journalism awards for diligent coverage of advances psychology and sociology.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Marjorie Van de Water

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

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  5. Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979), astrophysicist at Harvard College Observatory, was known for her research on stellar spectra.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin

    • Date: March 5, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  7. Pioneering aeronautical engineer Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009) (later Laurel van der Wal Roennau) won the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award in 1961 when she was head of bioastronautics at Space Technology Laboratories. The Los Angeles Times named her 1961 Woman Scientist of the Year.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Laurel van der Wal

    • Date: August 27, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  9. May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858-1943) was a noted suffragist and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy in United States (Cornell University, 1880). Her graduate thesis was titled

    Women in Science Wednesday: May Gorslin Preston Slosson

    • Date: February 26, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  11. Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909) was an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory where she discovered three new ring nebulae in the Milky Way in 1936.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert

    • Date: August 6, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  13. Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950) was a plant pathologist known for her work on sugar cane diseases.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire

    • Date: August 13, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  15. Paleontologist Dr. Johanna

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Johanna "Tilly" Edinger

    • Date: November 18, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Paleontologist Dr. Johanna "Tilly" Edinger was the founder of the field of paleoneurology, the study of brain evolution, and discovered that mammalian brains left imprints on fossil skulls, allowing paleoneurologists to discern their anatomy. #Groundbreaker

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 3!

    • Date: March 23, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers. Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey now has Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson

    • Date: February 27, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed

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  21. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

    Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

    • Date: May 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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  23. SI History Chronology

    Dr. Eva J. Pell Appointed Under Secretary for Science

    • Date: August 13, 2009

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