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    1. Biologist and geneticist Elizabeth Shull Russell (1913-2001)

      Women in Science Wednesday: Elizabeth Shull Russell

      • Date: December 4, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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    3. Biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) served on the faculty at Yale and did pioneering studies of rhesus monkeys.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Gertrude Van Wagenen

      • Date: September 3, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    5. Jeanne Helen Osiecki (b. 1926) began working at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in 1961 where she is shown synthesizing new polymers to be used in space vehicles.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Jeanne Helen Osiecki

      • Date: July 16, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    7. Joyce Jacobson Kaufman

      Women in Science Wednesday: Joyce Jacobson Kaufman

      • Date: June 5, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    9. June Etta Downey (1875-1932), professor of philosophy and psychology at the Univ

      Women in Science Wednesday: June Etta Downey

      • Date: August 14, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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    11. Chemist Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971) was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956 for her work in x-ray crystallography; in 1968, she became the first woman elected as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS).

      Women in Science Wednesday: Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale

      • Date: April 23, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    13. Libbie Henrietta Hyman

      Women in Science Wednesday: Libbie Henrietta Hyman

      • Date: June 12, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    15. Canadian-born physician and biochemist Maud Leonora Menten (1879-1960) made important contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Maud Leonora Menten

      • Date: July 2, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    17. Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991) attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning the A.B. in chemistry in 1915 and the M.A. in 1916. Simpson went on to earn the first Ph.D. in anatomy conferred in the University of California (1921), and a Ph.D. in medicine from Johns Hopkins University.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Miriam Elizabeth Simpson

      • Date: January 22, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    19. Wanda Margarite Kirkbride (1895-1983) did pioneering work on cellulose synthesis and plastids.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Wanda Margarite Kirkbride

      • Date: May 28, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    21. First hired by Harvard College Observatory to carry out astronomical calculations, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) eventually became one of the foremost American astronomers, known especially for her work on variable stars.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Annie Jump Cannon

      • Date: June 4, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    23. In 1963, Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997 was considered one of the world's foremost experimental physicists and her team's experiments confirmed the theory of sub-atomic behavior known as

      Women in Science Wednesday: Chien-shiung Wu

      • Date: April 16, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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