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1972
03 Aug

Charting A Course for Marine Research

Mary Elizabeth Rice's was the first director of the Smithsonian Marine Station.

1945
02 Sep

World War II Ends

1940
16 Apr

One Woman Explains 1,000,000 Invertebrates

Libbie Hyman earned an international reputation for her monumental six-volume work on the classification of invertebrates.  Mcgraw Hill published the first of six volumes in 1940.

1939
01 Sep

World War II Begins

1936
01 Jun

A Breakthrough That Made Sugarcane Sweeter

Dr. Janaki Ammal used her expertise in cytogenetics to develop a sweeter sugarcane cross-breed that would thrive in India, changing the face of agriculture. 

1933
18 Aug

Anthropologist to Aboriginal Activist: The First Step

Olive Pink departs from Sydney to live among the Aranda and Ilpirra Aboriginal tribes for 14 months to understand their cultures.  Thus began her transformation to an activist for Indigenous rights.

1930
30 Jan

Discovering the Skull of a 550 lb. Giant Sloth

Bertha Parker, the first female Native American archeologist, found what would prove to be one of the most import finds in the Gypsum cave near Las Vegas -- the skull of a rare species of giant sloth, Nothrotherium shastense (Sinclair).

1921
08 Sep

Art and Science Meet in the Yangtze Valley

Chinese artist Wong Hao-T'ing joins the American Museum of Natural History's Third Central Asiatic Expedition as a watercolor artist. Already skilled in the techniques of Chinese art, he volunteered to create the scientific illustrations of their discoveries.

1920
18 Aug

Women Win the Right To Vote

1918
11 Nov

Word War I Ends

1914
28 Jul

World War I Begins

1913
04 Oct

The River of Doubt Expedition Sails from Brooklyn

As Theodore Roosevelt and his team struggled down the River of Doubt for over a year, Elsie Naumburg worked behind the scenes, analysing the crates of bird specimens arriving in New York.

 

1906
18 Apr

Heroism in the 1906 San Francisco Eathquake

Botanist Alice Eastwood saved the botancial collection she built for the California Academy of Sciences by rescueing irreplacable specimens from the building before it was destroyed by the earthquake and fire.

1891
28 Apr

New York Botanical Gardens is Established

1877
29 May

First woman earns a Ph.D. in the United States

Helen Magill, a graduate student studying Greek drama, becomes the first women awarded a Ph.D. from Boston University.

1869
06 Apr

American Museum of Natural History is Founded

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