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meteOrology at the University of California has won
fame for pioneering in the of specially instru
mented aircraft for studying clouds, storms and hurri
canes.
Dr. Elsie Quartermain, authority geology Nhe
study of the relationship of plants and animals to their
envronments) has made a specially of analyzng the
pine forests Of the South and her research into the eff
feet of shade on pines has revoutonized numbering
methods there She heads the Department of Bacterial
Ogy, Botany and Zoology at Vanderbilt University.
DR.. Grace Hopper of the RemingtOn-Rand Corp was
student at Vassar when she decided mathematics
her forte She has since on to pioneer in automatic
electrOnic computer programming, and her theories
permit cOmputers to teach" themselves complicated
tasks in American industry.
DIR. Chen Shiung Wa of Columbia University left
her native China to study physics in the United States
Regarded of the foremost experimental physi-
csts of the century, she became the first
receive honorary dOcOrate of physics from Prince
ton University She is the mother of a teen-age
DR.. Dorothy Heed head of toxicoogy for the Haskell
Laboratory for ToxcOlogy and Industrial Medicine is
in charge testing all the products of the DUPONT
pany before they are introduced to the public.
Dr. EleanOra Bliss KnOpf of Stanford University,
who specazes in structural geology has contributed
both to the mining industry and to theories the
causes of earthquakes
Mrs. Rita SagaIyn, atmospheric physicist, is re-
nowned for her work with AerobeeH research rockets
at HanscOm Field, Mass.
DR.. Gladys Anderson Emerson, professor of nutri
ton at the University Of California started out wanting
to be actress in 1921. When she cast mbe
cile in ShakeSpeare's LAS You Like It, her acting
btOn collapsed She took the study of nutrition in
stead and today is famed biochemist credited with
many discoveries of the effects of vtamin deficiencies
on the human body.
DR.. Ethel Browne Harvey, of Woods Hole Ndass)
OceanOgraphc Institute, widowed mother of two sons,
has been biologist most of her life For the last 80
years. she has been analyzing animal cell structures
part of which work involves studying seaurchin eggs
measuring only 741OOOths of millmeter in diameter
Dr. Libbie III. Hyman, BIOLOGIST of the American
Museum of Natural History, who began her in
formally child watcher of butterflies is recognized
as this cOuntrys leading authority invertebrate
organisms She has been preparing for 30 years trea
tse called THE Invertebrates" five volumes CON-
pleted which will be the most comprehensive work of
its kind in English.
Dr. MHEy Sears Woods Hole oceanographer, has de-
voted her life to studies of the and its effect land
Dr. Sears, incidentally regards this science
highly suitable for She points out that in Russia
so cent of all oceanOgraphers women, while the
ratio in the United States is but per cent.
The women described on these pages give only
inklng of womanS potential in science and technology
Let woman have the final say, as women usually do
Lillian NJ Johnson president of the National Associa-
ton of Womens Deans and Counselors and Dean of
Women of the University of Cincinnati:
american women have never been parasites. In
pioneer times they performed their fair share of essen
Tho oh ofo hOndS