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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marian H. Pettibone

    • Date: April 12, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Bonus anecdote about Dr. Pettitbone:"While standing in line for a job interview during WWII, she overheard that men standing in the next line were going to get paid much more than those in her line. She then switched lines and became a spot welder, rather than a typist."

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  3. Microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen and chemist Rachel Brown

    Women in Science Wednesday: Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Brown

    • Date: July 10, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau

    • Date: March 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau, Lead Scientist, CTFS Global Forest Carbon Initiative, has researched the patterns, causes, and consequences of plant diversity for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 2008. As leader of the program, Muller-Landau strives to implement standardized measurements of forest carbon stocks and fluxes across forest research sites.

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  7. Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918, shown left) became the first person to receive the new Doctor of Odontology degree from the University of Copenhagen, in 1946.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen

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

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  9. British archeologist Dorothy Annie Elizabeth (

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod

    • Date: August 7, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  11. Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D. (1904-2001)

    Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Holden Jones Kaanar, M.D.

    • Date: October 23, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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  13. Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) Ph.D. and M.D.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Marie Agnes Hinrichs, Ph.D. and M.D.

    • Date: July 31, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  15. two separate side-by-side b&w portraits of African American women

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Drs. Joanne Hyppolite and Deborah Mack

    • Date: December 20, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Drs. Joanne Hyppolite and Deborah Mack had the near impossible task of distilling 400 years of African American style, food, craftsmanship, and more into the inaugural "Cultural Expressions" exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. #Groundbreaker (s)

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  17. Doris Mabel Cochran (left), herpetologist, was the first female curator for the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Smithsonian. Doris Holmes Blake (right), was a coleopterist (scholar of beetles) and scientific illustrator. They were friends and colleagues and published over 175 scientific papers between them. 

    Women in Science Wednesday: Doris Mabel Cochran and Doris Holmes Blake

    • Date: September 18, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Learn how we recently confirmed a field book authored by Cochran with your help!

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    See Here: 8/26/2011

    • Date: August 26, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: *PS: Happy Women's Equality Day!

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  21. In the 1930s, Anthropologist Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) conducted groundbreaking research on Alaskan Natives with Danish ethnologist Kaj Birket-Smith (1893-1977) (at right).

    Women in Science Wednesday: Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna

    • Date: June 11, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    Family Vacation

    • Date: March 24, 2009
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.

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