Charting A Course for Marine Research
Mary Elizabeth Rice's was the first director of the Smithsonian Marine Station.
World War II Ends
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.
World War II Begins
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.
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.
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).
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.
Women Win the Right To Vote
Word War I Ends
World War I Begins
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.
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.
New York Botanical Gardens is Established
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.
