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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
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  • Pew Charitable Trusts63
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  • Fitton, Elizabeth21
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  • Photographs165
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  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Lester F. Lau

    • 1992-Nov-06 – 1992-Nov-08

    Lester F. Lau, the youngest of three children, lived in Hong Kong until he was fourteen. Lau's parents were strict, Lau was—he says—introverted, and Chinese schools stressed conformity over creativity, so when the…

    • Interviewee Lau, Lester F., 1955-
    • Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Lau, Lester F., 1955-, Molecular biology, Genetic engineering, Yeast--Genetics, SV40 (Virus), Cell cycle--Regulation, Women in science, Minorities in science, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School, College of Medicine at Chicago, Nucleotide sequence
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Jane E. Koehler

    • 2001-Mar-02 – 2001-Mar-04

    Jane E. Koehler was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1953, the third of four sisters. Her father was the son of German-American farmers from Missouri; he was a World War II veteran who was the first in his family to attend…

    • Interviewee Koehler, Jane E., 1953-
    • Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Koehler, Jane E., 1953-, Autoimmune thyroiditis, Microbiology, Women in science, Communicable diseases, Angiomatosis, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, Bartonella, Women in medicine, Clinical medicine--Research, Molecular biologists, Women molecular biologists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Reatha Clark King

    • 2005-May-01

    Reatha Clark King was born in Pavo, Georgia, the second of three daughters. Her father was a sharecropper who never learned to read or write, and her mother, who went to school only through third grade, worked as a…

    • Interviewee King, Reatha Clark, 1938-
    • Interviewer Brown, Jeannette E.
    • Subject King, Reatha Clark, 1938-, Chemistry, Women in chemistry, United States. National Bureau of Standards, United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency, City University of New York, Metropolitan State University, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, General Mills Foundation, African American women, African American women chemists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Hannele Ruohola-Baker

    • 2002-May-20 – 2002-May-21
    • 2002-May-27

    Hannele Ruohola-Baker was born in Kullaa, Finland—a small farming village—the younger of two siblings. Her mother was a banker who always had an interest in learning, though did not have many opportunities for education…

    • Interviewee Ruohola-Baker, Hannele, 1959-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Ruohola-Baker, Hannele, 1959-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Proteins--Research, Drosophila, Oogenesis
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Audrey C. Rust

    • 2007-Jul-05

    Audrey Rust begins her oral history with a discussion of her love of Nature and how she came to work for the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST). The vast majority of her interview is focused on her work with POST, even…

    • Interviewee Rust, Audrey C.
    • Interviewer Brock, David C.
    • Sponsor Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
    • Subject Rust, Audrey C., Peninsula Open Space Trust, Women in science, Conservation of natural resources
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Jean S. Kane

    • 2012-Feb-27 – 2012-Feb-28

    Jean S. Kane grew up mostly in Tenafly, New Jersey. Although her father was an accountant, Jean was the first in her family to attend college. She began at Keuka College, intending to get a nursing degree, but she…

    • Interviewee Kane, Jean S.
    • Interviewer Gross, Benjamin
    • Subject Kane, Jean S., 1940-, Chemistry, Women in chemistry, Geological Survey (U.S.), Spectrum analysis, Standard Reference Materials Program (National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)), International Organization for Standardization, Geochemistry, Analytical geochemistry, Standard reference materials, Women in science, Chemists, Women chemists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Erin Schuman

    • 2000-Apr-12
    • 2000-Apr-19
    • 2000-Apr-26
    • 2000-May-17

    Erin M. Schuman was born in San Gabriel, California, though spent most of her childhood in Huntington Beach, the oldest of three siblings; her mother was a teacher at a Catholic school. She was a "serial hobbyist" with…

    • Interviewee Schuman, Erin, 1963-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Schuman, Erin, 1963-, Women in science, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Women in medicine, Neurobiology, Neural transmission, Neurotransmitters
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Gail P. Jarvik

    • 2002-May-22 – 2002-May-24

    Gail P. Jarvik was raised in Mount Prospect, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, one of six siblings (with an age-span of seventeen years between the oldest and youngest). Her mother was a housewife who received a college…

    • Interviewee Jarvik, Gail P., 1959-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Jarvik, Gail P., 1959-, Medical genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Hyperlipidemia, Prostate--Cancer, Medical ethics, Medical sciences, Women in medicine, University of Washington. Medical Center, Geneticists, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists, Women in science
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Catherine T. Hunt

    • 2009-Mar-26
    • 2009-Aug-28

    Catherine T. Hunt grew up in Bronxville, New York, one of seven children. Her father was a chemist at Allied Chemical Company, and Katie often went to work with him and always had questions for him about why things are…

    • Interviewee Hunt, Catherine T. 1955-
    • Interviewer Domush, Hilary
    • Subject Hunt, Catherine T. 1955-, Chemistry, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Women in chemistry, Rohm and Haas Company, American Chemical Society, Dow Chemical Company, Science--Study and teaching, Sustainable development, Chemists, Women chemists
  • Photograph of Christine E. Holt
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Christine E. Holt

    • 1995-Oct-25 – 1995-Oct-27

    Christine E. Holt was born and raised in Wylam, a small village in Northumberland in the north of England, the youngest of three siblings. Her mother was a homemaker; her father was a naval sea captain during World War…

    • Interviewee Holt, Christine E., 1954-
    • Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Holt, Christine E., 1954-, Genetics, Neurobiology, Electrophysiology, Xenopus, Brain--Physiology, Retina, Cell differentiation, University of California, San Diego, Women in science, Women in medicine, Neuroscientists, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists
  • Photograph of Nancy M. Hollingsworth
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Nancy M. Hollingsworth

    • 2002-Nov-11 – 2002-Nov-13

    Nancy M. Hollingsworth was born in San Francisco, California, but spent most of her youth moving around—to Oregon, Panama, New Mexico, California, and, finally, Arizona—with her parents and older brother. Her father was…

    • Interviewee Hollingsworth, Nancy M., 1958-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Hollingsworth, Nancy M., 1958-, Yeast, Mutation (Biology), Biochemistry, Recombinant DNA, Molecular genetics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, MSH (Hormone), Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Darleane C. Hoffman

    • 2012-Feb-28 – 2012-Feb-29

    Darleane (Christian) Hoffman was born in Terril, Iowa, one of two children. She grew up "all over" Iowa as her father was a public school superintendent who soon moved to Coon Rapids and then to West Union. Her mother,…

    • Interviewee Hoffman, Darleane C.
    • Interviewer Domush, Hilary
    • Subject Hoffman, Darleane C., Chemistry, Women in chemistry, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sexism in science, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Seaborgium, Radiochemistry, Discoveries in science, Chemists, Women chemists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Ann B. Hill

    • 2002-Aug-05 – 2002-Aug-07

    Ann B. Hill was born in Melbourne, but was raised primarily in Sydney, Australia, the second youngest of four children. Her father took advantage of opportunities for returning soldiers after the Second World War and…

    • Interviewee Hill, Ann Bernice, 1954-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Hill, Ann Bernice, 1954-, Clinical immunology, HIV-positive persons, T cells, Flaviviruses, Women in medicine, Medicine--Research, Oregon Health & Science University, Women in science, Immunologists, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists
  • Portrait of Hong Sun
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Hong Sun

    • 2003-Jan-14 – 2003-Jan-15

    Hong Sun was born and raised in Beijing, China, during the Cultural Revolution, the older of two siblings. Both of her parents were physicians who, later in their careers, focused more on medical research than…

    • Interviewee Sun, Hong, 1958-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Sun, Hong, 1958-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Molecular biology--Research, Medicine--Research, Oncology, Cancer--Research, Proteins--Research, Women medical scientists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Rebecca W. Heald

    • 2005-Oct-17 – 2005-Oct-19

    Rebecca W. Heald grew up in Greenville, a small college town in western Pennsylvania, where she was the youngest of three daughters. Her father was a chemistry professor at Thiel College in Greenville, and her mother…

    • Interviewee Heald, Rebecca W., 1963-
    • Interviewer Mejia, Robin
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Heald, Rebecca W., 1963-, Biochemistry, Nuclear membranes, Cell cycle, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Spindle (Cell division), Women in science, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists, Molecular biologists, Women molecular biologists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Esther S. Takeuchi

    • 2012-Apr-27
    • 2012-Sep-14

    Esther Takeuchi grew up in Akron, Ohio, the youngest of three children. After escaping Soviet Latvia, her father became an electrical engineer for Goodyear Aerospace and her mother a home health worker who also had an…

    • Interviewee Takeuchi, E. (Esther)
    • Interviewer Caruso, David J., (David Joseph), 1978-, Eisler, Matthew N.
    • Subject Takeuchi, Esther S., 1953-, Women in chemistry, Women in science, Chemistry, Technical, Chemistry--Industrial applications, Medical instruments and apparatus, Chemists, Women chemists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Mihal Gross

    • 2012-Feb-16 – 2012-Feb-18

    Mihal Gross begins the interview with a discussion of her family history, her childhood years in Queens, New York as a first generation American and the influences that fueled her wide-ranging interests at the…

    • Interviewee Gross, Mihal E.
    • Interviewer Eisler, Matthew N.
    • Subject Gross, Mihal, 1956-, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Chemistry, Women in chemistry, Materials Research Society, Semiconductors, United States. Office of Science and Technology Policy, United States. Department of Energy, Chemical vapor deposition, Chemists, Women chemists, Women in science
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Carol W. Greider

    • 1993-Sep-22
    • 1993-Sep-24
    • 1993-Sep-30
    • 1993-Oct-05

    Carol W. Greider was born in San Diego, California. Her father was a physicist; her mother was a biologist who died when Carol was young. Her father had a position at Yale University when Carol was a child, and they…

    • Interviewee Greider, Carol W.
    • Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Greider, Carol W., Circadian rhythms, Blackburn, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Helen), 1948-, Telomere, Telomerase, Cloning, Ribonucleases, Medical scientists, Molecular biologists, Women in science, Women in medicine, Women medical scientists, Women molecular biologists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Jean T. Greenberg

    • 2002-Jun-17 – 2002-Jun-18

    Jean T. Greenberg was raised, principally, in New York City with her mother, though she spent weekends in Connecticut with her father; Greenberg had one older brother. Her father was a physician with "the heart" of a…

    • Interviewee Greenberg, Jean T., 1961-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Greenberg, Jean T., 1961-, Oxidative stress, Biophysics, Plants--Disease and pest resistance, Arabidopsis, Plant diseases, University of Colorado Boulder, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Molecular biologists, Women medical scientists, Women molecular biologists
  • Photograph of Roberta A. Sanchez Gottlieb
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Roberta A. Sanchez Gottlieb

    • 2003-Oct-10
    • 2003-Oct-13

    Roberta A. Sanchez Gottlieb grew up on a cattle ranch about eighty miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, the youngest of three sisters, though, given the disparity in ages (five and six years older), she felt like she was…

    • Interviewee Sanchez Gottlieb, Roberta A., 1958-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Sanchez Gottlieb, Roberta A., 1958-, Hautzig, Walter, Music, Hematology, Oncology, Protein kinases, Scripps Research Institute, Women in medicine, Medicine--Research, Coronary heart disease, Medical scientists, Microbiologists, Women microbiologists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Marcia B. Goldberg

    • 1999-Nov-01 – 1999-Nov-02

    Marcia B. Goldberg was born in 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts; the second of four siblings. Goldberg grew up in a very egalitarian family environment full of enrichment and educational opportunities. Although the…

    • Interviewee Goldberg, Marcia B., 1957-
    • Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Goldberg, Marcia B., 1957-, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Shigella flexneri, Vibrio cholerae, Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bacterial diseases, Women in science, Medical microbiology, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Monica L. Vetter

    • 2004-Nov-05
    • 2004-Nov-08

    Monica L. Vetter grew up in Markham, Ontario, Canada, the eldest of three siblings. Vetter's father worked for Honeywell and in the computer industry generally—and was gifted musically—and her mother was a nurse who,…

    • Interviewee Vetter, Monica L., 1963-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Vetter, Monica L., 1963-, Women in medicine, Women in science, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Neurobiology, Molecular genetics, Women medical scientists
  • Photograph of Wilma Wasco
    2 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Wilma M. Wasco

    • 2002-Oct-02 – 2002-Oct-04

    Wilma M. Wasco was raised in Fairfield, Connecticut—a town about forty-five minutes away from New York City—the oldest of three siblings. Her father was a lawyer and had a profound love of jazz music, also, later in…

    • Interviewee Wasco, Wilma M., 1959-
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Wasco, Wilma M., 1959-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Neurobiology, Alzheimer's disease--Research, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Neurosciences, Women medical scientists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp

    • 2012-Apr-03 – 2012-Apr-04

    Penelope Fenner-Crisp grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of two children. Her father changed jobs frequently; her mother was a housewife until Fenner-Crisp was nearly through high school. The family all…

    • Interviewee Fenner-Crisp, Penelope A., 1939-
    • Interviewer Roberts, Jody A., Hunter-Lascoskie, Sarah L.
    • Subject Fenner-Crisp, Penelope A., 1939-, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Neurotoxic agents, Women in Science & Engineering (Organization), Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (United States), Pesticides, Hazardous substances, Design for the Environment Program (U.S.), Chemicals--Law and legislation, Women in science, Toxicologists, Drinking water, Drinking water--Contamination
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Alison A. Weiss

    • 1991-Mar-03

    Alison A. Weiss grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, the second of six children. Her father was an electrician, her mother a housewife. All six children graduated from college, and four have…

    • Interviewee Weiss, Alison A., 1952-
    • Interviewer Morrissette, Naomi, Kohler, Robert
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Weiss, Alison A., 1952-, Molecular biology, Bacteria--Research, Pathogenic bacteria, Molecular biologists, Women in science, Women molecular biologists
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