"Since
2009, the Smithsonian Archives has
posted groups of photographs showing women scientists and engineers at work;
women trained in science and engineering who worked outside the laboratory as
librarians, writers, political activists, or in other areas where their work
informed or was informed by science; family research collaborators who assisted
their scientist husbands and fathers; and several images for which we have
little descriptive information to which we invite you to contribute!"
Brazilian aviation expert and pilot Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1902-1999) was the first
person to obtain a U.S. commercial pilot’s license with additional ratings as
instructor and for flying on instruments only. She had made her first solo
flight in 1922, at the age of 18 and was the first Brazilian woman to make a
cross-country flight.
Emma Reh (1896-1982)
a journalist who reported on archaeological excavations in Mexico, as well as
the social and political situation in that country. Later she worked at the
United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, writing about food consumption
and distribution problems.
Bertha Parker Pallan (1907-1978)
is considered one of the first female Native American archaeologists
Anna “Vesse” Dahl accompanied
her husband Odd Dahl on
expeditions, a Norwegian adventurer who had no formal scientific training but
later made great contributions to research on atomic energy.
William M. Mann was Director of the National
Zoological Park. His wife, Lucile Quarry Mann (1897-1986) often accompanied him
on collecting trips. A science writer, Lucile Mann would produce the popular
accounts of their expeditions. She also became skilled at care of exotic
animals, feeding and caring for animals on expeditions and raising several big
cat cubs in their home.
Dena Shapiro was
a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago. This
photo describes her as just having traveled “to Palestine, to see how the new
cloth of Zionism is fitting into the old garment of the complex
Moslem-Christian-Jewish life there.”
Ethel Grace Stiffler was
a botanist who studied at Goucher College (A.B., 1922) and University of
Pennsylvania
Anna Chao Pai (b.
1935) was a predoctoral student in the Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, working on developmental genetics and cross-breeding
special strains of mice.
South African born writer and broadcaster Winifred May de Kok (1893-1969) had attended medical
school in England during the 1920s and was in medical practice until 1953, when
she became a television broadcaster, engaging in discussions of family life and
health on her BBC program Tell Me, Doctor.
Mary Knight Dunlap (1910-1992)
was the founder of the Association for Women Veterinarians.
Ruth Colvin Starrett
McGuire (1893-1950) was a plant pathologist known for her
work on sugar cane diseases.
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