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1925: Florence Sabin became the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [14] 1928: Alice Evans became the first woman elected president of the Society of American Bacteriologists. [15] 1936: Edith Patch became the first female president of the Entomological Society of America. [16]
1978: Anna Jane Harrison became the first female president of the American Chemical Society. [308] 1978: Mildred Cohn served as the first female president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, then called the American Society of Biological Chemists. [309] [310] [311]
Anna Jane Harrison (December 23, 1912 – August 8, 1998) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years. She was the first female president of the American Chemical Society, [1] and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees. [2]
“I will become the first woman president of Mexico,” Sheinbaum told reporters on Sunday shortly after electoral authorities announced that she had gained an irreversible lead, according to CBS ...
Sheinbaum was sworn in as president on 1 October 2024, becoming the first woman, as well as the first person of predominantly Jewish heritage, [b] to hold the office. [139] [140] [141] The presidential sash was handed to her by Ifigenia Martínez, the president of the Congress of the Union and a prominent figure for the Mexican left.
Karen N. Horn became the first woman ever to serve as president of any of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and as such the first woman to serve as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. [193] Leah Lowenstein was the first woman dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States. [194] 1983
Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected Mexico’s first female president.. The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City was elected with between 58 per cent and 60 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s ...
Claudia Sheinbaum, a U.S.-educated scientist-turned-politician, was elected Sunday as Mexico’s first female president, shattering gender barriers in a country known for a culture of machismo and ...