Title: Four lives in science :
Authors: Arnold, Lois.
Date: 1984
Publisher: Schocken Books,
Physical description: xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: Studying with her brother at home, Maria Martin Bachman learned enough "to draw the botanical backgrounds for many of Audubon's famous bird paintings." Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps taught science in a women's seminary, "and, at the urging of her students, sought admittance to the Rensselaer School in Troy." Louisa Allen Gregory developed a "domestic science" curriculum at the University of Illinois which was the forerunner for the home economics movement in America. Florence Bascom "was the first woman to receive a Ph. D. in Science from Johns Hopkins, and she went on to teach geology at Bryn Mawr."--Jacket.
Contents: Maria Martin Bachman (1796-1863) -- Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884) -- Louisa C. Allen Gregory (1848-1920) -- Florence Bascom (1862-1945) -- Eunice Foot and others.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bachman, Maria Martin.; Bascom, F. (Florence), 1862-1945; Education--United States--History; Foot, Eunice M., 1905-; Gregory, Louisa C. Allen.; Phelps, Almira Hart Lincoln.; Scientists--United States--Biography; Women in science--United States--History.; Women scientists--United States--Biography.; Women--Education--United States--History.