death_place death_date birth_place nationality workplace field alma_mater known_for article_title name death_cause
mt. riga , new york , usa 6 may 1922 new york , new york , usa united states hunter college botany hunter college expanding educational access alice rich northrop
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alice rich northrop

alice rich northrop -lrb- march 6 , 1863 - may 6 , 1922 -rrb- was an american botanist .
she was known for expanding access to nature for new york city 's public school children .
northrop and her husband , john isaiah northrop , travelled extensively to regions of the world where women did not usually venture , including central america , the caribbean , and western north america .
on a trip to the bahamas , the northrops discovered 18 new species .
northrop became a professor of botany at hunter college .
many of her students went on to teach in new york city public schools and reported to her that their students had very little access to nature .
northrop labored to increase education about the natural world , including installing terrariums and preserved plants in classrooms across the city .
one lasting legacy of northrop 's life 's work is the alice rich northrop memorial camp in the berkshire mountains , which was established to allow children from the city to spend two weeks at a time on the farm .
the first group of children came in 1923 , and the camp continues to host school groups each summer .
her son , john howard northrop , won the nobel prize in chemistry in 1946 .
her papers are held at the schlesinger library at harvard university .
