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This digital collection features materials related to notable women scientists, including Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Bettye Washington Greene, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Stephanie Kwolek, and Rosalyn Yalow, as well as images of women working in a variety of laboratory and industrial settings. The collection also includes a range of materials related to women's health, including breast pumps, contraceptives, and mammary sizers.

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  • Women in science189
  • Women employees147
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  • Fitton, Elizabeth21
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  • Photographs165
  • Oral histories110
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  • Image216
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  • Paper5
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  • English163
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  • 2 items
    Clothing and dress

    D*Lite Hands-free Breast Pump Bra

    • 2015

    A black specialized bra for people who are lactating or chestfeeding. The bra is secured in front by a zipper. The bra cups are formed from two overlapping fabric pieces which can be moved to expose the wearer's nipple.…

    • Manufacturer Simple Wishes, LLC
    • Subject Brassieres, Breastfeeding, Women--Health and hygiene, Health products, Lactation, Health
  • 2 items
    Ephemera, Publications

    Article about Marie Curie

    • Circa 1911

    Newspaper article about Marie Curie (1867-1934) and her relationship with Paul Langevin (1872-1946). Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only woman to win twice. In 1903 Curie was awarded the…

    • Subject Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Nobel Prize winners, Women in science
  • Photograph of Carolyn R. Bertozzi
    12 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Carolyn R. Bertozzi

    • 2003-Aug-17 – 2003-Aug-18

    Carolyn Bertozzi grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the second of three girls. Her father was a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her mother a secretary in MIT's physics department.…

    • Interviewee Bertozzi, Carolyn R., 1966-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Women molecular biologists, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology--Research, Carbohydrates--Physiological effect, Bertozzi, Carolyn R., 1966-, Molecular biologists
  • 9 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

    • 2004-Apr-19 – 2004-Apr-20

    Lilianna Solnica-Krezel was born in Cieplice-Sląskie, a small village in the mountains in the southwestern part of Poland, but grew up in Sandomierz, Poland, at a time when the country was still under the communist…

    • Interviewee Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Women in science, Women in medicine, Mutagenesis, Cytoskeleton, Physarum polycephalum
  • 9 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Yixian Zheng

    • 2003-Sep-09 – 2003-Sep-11

    Yixian Zheng was born and raised in Chongqing, the Sichuan province of China, the elder (by about nine years) of the family's two daughters. Both of her parents were professors at Chongqing University—her mother in…

    • Interviewee Zheng, Yixian, 1969-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Zheng, Yixian, 1969-, Women in science, Centrosomes, Microtubules, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Women in medicine, Women medical scientists
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    Photograph of the International Chemical Reunion Utrecht

    • 1922

    Group photograph of the International Chemical Reunion Utrecht (ICRU). ICRU was organized by Ernst Cohen (1863-1944) as a way to unite scientists from previously warring nations.

    Front Row: Tendeloo, van der Burg, de…

    • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Cohen, Ernst, 1869-1944, International relations, Chemists, Women in science
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    IX. Hauptversammlung der deutschen elektrochemischen Gesellschaft

    • IX. General meeting of the German Electrochemical Society
    • 1902-May

    Photograph of the 1902 general meeting of the German Electrochemical Society held in Würzburg, Germany. In 1902 the name of the society changed to Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (German Bunsen…

    • Creator Of Work Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
    • Subject Chemistry--Societies, etc., Chemists, Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, Women in science
  • 4 items
    Photographs

    Physikalische-Chemischen Institut in Leipzig, c. 1899

    • Circa 1899

    Two copies of a group photograph depicting students and faculty of the Physical Chemistry Institute at the University of Leipzig.

    In the front row, 4th from the left is Yukichi Osaka (1866-1950). Osaka was a Japanese…

    • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Ōsaka, Yūkichi, 1866-1950, Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Chemists, Universität Leipzig (1409-1953), Universities and colleges, Women in science
  • 2 items
    Manuscripts

    Einige Versuche an Metallkristalle

    • Some Experiments on Metal Crystals
    • Undated

    A German translation of an experimental methodology written by Constance Fligg Elam Tipper (1891-1995), an English metallurgist and crystallographer. Elam was the first female full-time faculty member at the Cambridge…

    • Contributor Tipper, Constance Fligg Elam, 1894-
    • Subject Metal crystals, Crystals, Crystallography, Tipper, Constance Fligg Elam, 1894-, Metallurgy, Women in science
  • 18 items
    Publications

    Chemistry for Nurses

    • 1930

    Volume intended to provide nursing students with instruction in chemistry. The volume's content conveys the concepts from inorganic, organic, analytical, biological, and physical chemistry most applicable to a…

    • Author Koechig, Irene
    • Publisher Lea & Febiger
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Nursing, Nursing students, Nursing--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Women in medicine, Women nurses, Koechig, Irene, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
  • Photographs

    Dr. Bettye Washington Greene (1935-1995)

    • After 1964 – before 1991

    Photograph of Dr. Bettye Washington Greene (1935-1995), believed to be the first African-American female chemist employed to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company.

    Bettye Greene was born on March…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Women in science, Greene, Bettye Washington, 1935-1995, African American women, Dow Chemical Company, African Americans, Employees, Chemists, Women employees, Women chemists
  • 10 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Madeleine M. Joullié

    • 1991-Apr-23

    The interview begins with Dr. Joullié's description of her early life and education in Brazil. Her father sent her to Simmons College in the United States, where she received her undergraduate degree before obtaining…

    • Interviewee Joullié, Madeleine M., 1927-
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J.
    • Sponsor Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
    • Subject Joullié, Madeleine M., 1927-, Chemistry, Organic, Women in chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Price, Charles C. (Charles Coale), 1913-2001, United States. Secret Service, DNA fingerprinting, American Chemical Society, Western Electric Company, Shell Oil Company, Weisz, Paul B., 1921-, Alzheimer's disease--Research, Chemists, Women chemists, Women in science
  • 247 items
    Publications

    Applied Chemistry for Nurses

    • 1926

    Published in 1926, this textbook of chemistry was intended to instill "the elementary foundation principles of chemistry which will be of service to the nurse in her work." The work contains chapters that discuss…

    • Author Goostray, Stella, 1886-1969
    • Publisher Macmillan & Co.
    • Contributor Karr, Walter G. (Walter Gerald), 1892-1946
    • Printer The Cornwall Press
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Nursing--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Women in medicine, Women nurses, Nursing, Nursing students, Goostray, Stella, 1886-1969
  • 4 items
    Artifacts, Clothing and dress

    Fashion Forms Lingerie Solutions Water Wear Push Up Pads

    • Circa 2021

    One pair of Fashion Forms brand, beige-colored, water-filled push-up pads, or bra inserts, sized B/C and contained in black commercial packaging. Fashion Forms, Inc. operates as a fashion apparel company. The company…

    • Manufacturer Fashion Forms
    • Subject Breast, Brassieres, Packaging, Women--Health and hygiene, Clothing and dress, Clothing trade, Commercial products, Deal, Ann
  • 2 items
    Ephemera, Publications

    Professor Fürstin Andronikov: die seltsamen Lebensschickfale des ersten weiblichen Deutschen Professors

    • Professor Princess Professor Andronikov: the strange life stories of the first female German professor
    • Circa 1928

    An article written about Margarete von Wrangell (1877-1932). Wrangell was an agricultural chemist and known as Germany's first female full professor in German. While she was alive Wrangell was a very successful…

    • Subject Wrangell, Margarete von, 1877-1932, College teachers, Chemists, Scientists, Women in science
  • Ephemera, Publications

    Article on Margarete von Wrangell

    • Circa 1932

    Article regarding the marriage of Margarete von Wrangell (1877-1932). Wrangell was an agricultural chemist and Germany's first female full professor. Wrangell's significant scientific contributions became well known…

    • Subject Wrangell, Margarete von, 1877-1932, Scientists, Chemists, Andronikov, Vladimir, Women in science, Women chemists
  • Photograph of  Hao Wu
    5 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Hao Wu

    • 2008-Jan-30 – 2008-Jan-31

    Hao Wu's oral history begins with a discussion of her childhood in China, during which her family was separated and forced to relocate to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. Despite the difficulties…

    • Interviewee Wu, Hao, 1964-
    • Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Wu, Hao, 1964-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, CD4 antigen, Glycoproteins, Crystallography
  • 2 items
    Oral histories

    Research interview with Pouné Saberi

    • 2017-Jul-14

    Pouné Saberi was born in Tehran, Iran, and experienced the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a child. Her family left Iran in the mid-1980s during its war with Iraq and settled briefly in Boston. Pouné’s parents and younger…

    • Interviewee Saberi, Pouné
    • Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
    • Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
    • Subject Saberi, Pouné, Women in science, Women in medicine, Physicians, Women physicians, Revolution (Iran : 1979), Public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.), Toxins--Environmental aspects
  • 11 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Maureen J. Charron

    • 1999-Sep-07 – 1999-Sep-09

    Maureen J. Charron has spent most of her life in New York City, New York. She was born on Long Island but grew up in Queens. The elder of two sisters born to parents of Italian and French Canadian descent, she attended…

    • Interviewee Charron, Maureen J., 1959-
    • Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Women in science, Women in medicine, Charron, Maureen J., 1959-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, DNA--Research, Glucose--Physiological transport, Diabetes--Research
  • 3 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Marla B. Luskin

    • 1990-Mar-06

    Marla Luskin grew up in the San Fernando Valley, near Los Angeles, California, one of three children. Her father was a plumber and her mother a housewife. Neither of her parents valued the need for higher education,…

    • Interviewee Luskin, Marla B.
    • Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Luskin, Marla B., Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Women in science, Women in medicine, Neurobiology, Developmental neurobiology
  • 3 items
    Artifacts

    Transform 101 Natural Look Triangle Breast Form Prosthesis

    • 2021

    TRANSFORM® brand silicone breast forms in size 8 manufactured by Nearly Me Technologies, LLC, a manufacturer of health care products and prostheses, specializing in silicone gel and foam technology.

    Nearly Me…

    • Creator Of Work TRANSFORM® Transgender Products
    • Contributor Nearly Me Technologies, LLC
    • Subject Breast, Silicone rubber, Women's health services, Women--Health and hygiene, Gender expression, Commercial products, Gender nonconformity, Gender identity, Prosthesis, Transgender people
  • Photographs

    Georg Bredig and fellow chemists in Amsterdam

    • 1894

    Group photograph showing chemists in Amsterdam. The pictured individuals are likely the students and colleagues of Jacobus van’t Hoff (1852-1911). Handwritten annotations identify the individuals from left to right as…

    • Subject Rothmund, Viktor, 1870-1927, Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Chemists, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Women chemists, Women in science
  • 11 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    The Life of Ellen H. Richards

    • 1912

    Ellen H. Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was one of America's first female professional chemists and the first woman to be accepted by a scientific school. She is best known for pioneering the field of sanitary…

    • Author Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927
    • Publisher Whitcomb & Barrows
    • Subject Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911, Home economics--Study and teaching, Home economics, Women in science, Scientists, Sanitary engineering, Sanitary engineers
  • 3 items
    Business correspondence

    Letter from A. T. Kent to James Curtis Booth

    • 1868-Oct-28

    Mrs. A. T. Kent writes to James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) on behalf of a young woman seeking an employment opportunity at the United States Mint. Booth notes his reply on the verso, "waited and watched [for an]…

    • Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
    • Author Kent, A. T.
    • Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Women employees, Sexism, United States Mint, Mint of the United States
  • 20 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    Plant Life

    • Home College Series Number 53
    • 1883

    Characterized by a religious Christian tone, the publication provides an overview of plants geared towards a general audience. Includes a microbiological discussion of plant cells and some discussion of plant taxonomy…

    • Author Phoebus, V. C., Mrs.
    • Publisher Hunt & Eaton, Cranston & Stowe
    • Subject Botany, Scientific illustration, Religion and science, Plants, Plant cells and tissues, Plants--Cladistic analysis, Textbooks, Women in science
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