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  2. Timeline of women in science in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1848: Maria Mitchell became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she had discovered a new comet the year before. [1]1853: Jane Colden was the only female biologist mentioned by Carl Linnaeus in his masterwork Species Plantarum.

  3. Elizabeth Blackwell - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1]

  4. Timeline of women in science - Wikipedia

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    2008: American-born Australian Penny Sackett became Australia's first female Chief Scientist. [ 364 ] 2008: American computer scientist Barbara Liskov won the Turing Award for "contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and ...

  5. Maria Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    Maria Mitchell (/ m ə ˈ r aɪ ə / mə-RY-ə; [1] August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. [2] In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI (modern designation C/1847 T1) that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor. [3]

  6. List of female scientists before the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820–1921), American physician, first female physician in the state of Louisiana; Rebecca Cole (1846–1922) American physician, by 1867 she was the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States

  7. Ellen Swallow Richards - Wikipedia

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    She was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated in 1873 and later became its first female instructor. [1] [4] Richards was the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry, which she earned from Vassar College in ...

  8. Eunice Newton Foote - Wikipedia

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    Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner.She was the first scientist to confirm that certain gases warm when exposed to sunlight, and that therefore rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the Greenhouse effect.

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    She attended the first-ever African American Officer Candidate School at Fort Des Moines in Iowa and was promoted to major in 1943, becoming the highest-ranking female officer.