Women in Science

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Explore women in science history through the Smithsonian's collections and meet some of our scientists. See more from Smithsonian Institution Archives' Women in Science Wednesday.

National Portrait Gallery Julie Packard
National Portrait Gallery Janet Rowley
Smithsonian American Art Museum Eslanda G. Robeson, from the unrealized portfolio "Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After"
National Postal Museum 32c Margaret Mead single
National Postal Museum Forever American Scientists: Maria Goeppert Mayer single
National Postal Museum 55c Alice Hamilton, MD single
Smithsonian Institution Archives Wiktorja S. Dembowski
Smithsonian Institution Archives Willey Glover Denis (1879-1929)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Mary N. Crawford, shown sitting next to blackboard
Smithsonian Institution Archives Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Regina Flannery Herzfeld (1904-2004)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Margaret Alger Hayden (1884-1969)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Olive Swezy (b. 1878)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Lois Lockard MacKay (1898-1978)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Bertha Parker Pallan Cody (1907-1978)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Charlotte Davis (1924-2005)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909)
Smithsonian Institution Archives Ethel Grace Stiffler
Smithsonian Institution Archives Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950)

Women in Science

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