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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Ada Yonath
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Ada Yonath (1939-2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
- Photographer Mezei, Mihaly
- Subject Yonath, Ada, Crystallographers, Nobel Prize winners, Women in science, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Ada Yonath and Ming-Ming Zhou
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Scientists Ada Yonath and Ming-Ming Zhou.
Ada Yonath (1939-2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
- Photographer Mezei, Mihaly
- Subject Crystallographers, Nobel Prize winners, Women Nobel Prize winners, Women in science, Yonath, Ada, Zhou, Ming-Ming
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Ada Yonath and Ming-Ming Zhou
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Scientists Ada Yonath and Ming-Ming Zhou.
Ada Yonath (1939-2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
- Photographer Mezei, Mihaly
- Subject Crystallographers, Nobel Prize winners, Women Nobel Prize winners, Women in science, Yonath, Ada, Zhou, Ming-Ming
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3 items
Research Interview with Mary-Dell Chilton
- 2013-Aug-29 – 2013-Aug-29
Mary-Dell Chilton was born in 1939 in Indianapolis, Indiana but grew up with her maternal grandparents in Southern Pines, North Carolina. She went to Catholic school where she excelled academically. After she became a…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 14, 1914
- 1914-Feb-14
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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3 items
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 8, 1914
- 1914-Feb-08
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 6, 1914
- 1914-Feb-06
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, December 1913
- 1913-Dec-16
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an assistant to…
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Telegram from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 14, 1914
- 1914-Feb-14
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 12, 1914
- 1914-Feb-12
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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4 items
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, 1913
- Circa 1913
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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3 items
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, December 18, 1913
- 1913-Dec-18
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to her future husband, Otto Haas (1872-1960), cofounder of Rohm and Haas.
Phoebe Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, December 19, 1913
- 1913-Dec-19
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an assistant to…
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3 items
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, 1913
- Circa 1913
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 11, 1914
- 1914-Feb-11
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, December 7, 1913
- 1913-Dec-07
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, December 3, 1913
- 1913-Dec-03
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, October 31, 1913
- 1913-Oct-31
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, 1913
- 1913
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 10, 1914
- 1914-Feb-14
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, November 30, 1913
- 1913-Nov-30
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, February 5, 1914
- 1914-Feb-05
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to her family, October 3, 1913
- 1913-Oct-03 – 1913-Oct-12
Letter written by Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882–1967) as she traveled by ship to the Argentine National Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina, where she had been appointed as an assistant astronomer. During the voyage to…
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Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas to Otto Haas, October 17, 1913
- 1913-Oct-17
Letter from Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967) to Otto Haas (1872-1960).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. After graduating, she was appointed as an…
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Letter and notes from Thomas R. Williams to John C. Haas, November 12, 1990
- 1990-Nov-12 – 2006
Letter from Thomas R. Williams, historian of science, to John C. Haas (1918-2011). Williams sends Haas notes and biographical information about his mother, Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967).
Phoebe Waterman Haas was…
