Anna Marguerite McCan was an archaeologist and the first American woman in the field of underwater archaeology. Anna began scuba diving while exploring ancient Roman ship wrecks during a time…
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#TBT with Dr. Bettye Washington Green (1935 – 1995)
Dr. Bettye Washington Greene was the first black woman chemist to work at the Dow Chemical Company. Bettye earned her B.S. from the Tuskegee Institute before earning her Ph.D. from…
#TBT with Zonia Baber (1862-1956)
🔍 Zonia Baber was a geographer and geologist, who emphasized learning through field work and experiments. Zonia was an associate professor and heady of geography and geology at the University…
TBT with Josephine Yates (1852/9 – 1912)
🔬 Josephine Yates a chemist and educator. She was one of the first black teachers hired at Lincoln University and the first black woman to head a college science department,…
#TBT with Alma Levant Hayden (1927 – 1967)
Alma Levant Hayden was an American chemist. Alma became one of the first black women to work as a scientist for an agency in Washington, D.C. when she joined the…
#TBT with Mary Sherman Morgan (1921-2004)
Mary Sherman Morgan was a rocket fuel scientist who took a job designing explosives while studying chemistry at Minot State University during World War II. During the 1950s, Mary was…
#TBT with Maria Telkes (1900-1995)
Maria Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who invented the first solar-power heating system. Maria earned her BA and doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of Budapest before…
#TBT with Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933)
Zelia Nuttall was an American archaeologist. In exploring her mother’s Mexican ancestry, Zelia because her archaeological studies. It was Zelia’s paper on small terra-cotta heads found at Teotihuacan that gained…
#TBT with Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019)
️Dr. Patricia Bath was the first black woman to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first black woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Patricia’s patent…
#TBT with Dorothy Hall Brophy
Dorothy Hall Brophy was the first woman to receive a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1918. Dorothy went on to earn her PhD in…
#TBT with Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan was an American engineer and architect who designed hundreds of buildings in California during her career. Julia earned her degree in civil engineering from UC Berkeley at a…
#TBT with Irene Fischer (1907-2009)
Irene Fischer is a pioneer in geoid studies and goedesy – the science of accurately measuring and understanding the earth’s geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field….