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The invention of the microscope stimulated the study of plant anatomy, and the first carefully designed experiments in plant physiology were performed. With the expansion of trade and exploration beyond Europe, the many new plants being discovered were subjected to an increasingly rigorous process of naming, description, and classification.
Ida Freund (1863–1914), first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the United Kingdom [21]: 59–60 Louise Hammarström (1849–1917), Swedish chemist; Edith Humphrey (1875–1978), probably the first British woman to gain a doctorate in chemistry [22] Julia Lermontova (1846–1919), Russian chemist [21]: 61–64
Snugli and Weego were invented by nurse and peacekeeper Ann Moore first in the 1960s. Pertussis A pioneering female American doctor, medical researcher and an outspoken voice in the pediatric community, the supercentenarian Leila Alice Denmark (1898–2012) is credited as co-developer of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. [citation needed]
They were the only two women out of 836 participants. [125] 1901: American Florence Bascom became the first female geologist to present a paper before the Geological Survey of Washington. [131] 1901: Czech botanist and zoologist Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková became the first woman in the Czech Republic to receive a PhD. [132]
More formal gardening texts, such as the Geoponika (10th century), were in fact encyclopaedias of accumulated agricultural practices (grafting, watering) and pagan lore (astrology, plant sympathy/antipathy relationships), going back to Hesiod's time. Their repeated publications and translations to other languages well into the 16th century is ...
Plants were supplied by Hugh Ronalds, a nurseryman in Brentford. [8] George Caley (1770–1829) was an English botanist, horticulturist and explorer sent to New Holland in 1799 (arriving at Port Jackson in April 1800) by Banks on a salary of 15 shillings a week, to collect plants and seed for Banks and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
The first admission of women as fellows of the Linnean Society in 1905, Mary Anne Stebbing is depicted in the right foreground, - from the original version of a painting by James Sant (1820–1916) Mary Anne Stebbing FLS ( née Saunders ; 11 September 1845 [ 1 ] – 21 January 1927) [ 2 ] was a botanist and botanical illustrator .
Among the successful scientists were Nadezhda Suslova (1843–1918), the first woman in the world to obtain a medical doctorate fully equivalent to men's degrees; Maria Bokova-Sechenova (1839–1929), a pioneer of women's medical education who received two doctoral degrees, one in medicine in Zürich and one in physiology in Vienna; Iulia ...