Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ida May Mellen (1877 1970)

Ruth May Tunnicliff (1876-1946) conducted research on bacteriology and immunity at John McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases in Chicago during the 1920s. She attended Vassar College (A.B., 1896) and Rush Medical College...

South African born writer and broadcaster Winifred May de Kok (1893-1969) had attended medical school in England during the 1920s and was in medical practice until 1953, when she became a television broadcaster, engaging in discussions...

Physiologist and anatomist Margaret Reed Lewis (1881-1970), an authority on tumors, had served as an assistant to Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia and then worked as a research collaborator in the embryology department of the Carnegie...

Zoologist Florence de Loiselle Lowther (1884-1970) earned her A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia University, and became a professor at Barnard College

Catherine Macfarlane (1877-1969) was a Philadelphia gynecologist and cancer researcher. In 1951, she received a Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, jointly with Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance, for her work helping to establish cancer...

Charlotte Haywood (1897-1970?) graduated from Mount Holyoke College, (B.A., 1919), Brown University (M.A., 1921), and University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1927) and spent her summers during the 1920s doing research in physiology at Woods...

An expert in occupational health issues, Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) was Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Hamilton did additional research in Germany...

Born in Estonia and trained in medicine in Germany, ophthalmologist Ingeborg Schmidt (b. 1899) did research on color vision. She had worked as a research assistant in Tubingen and Berlin, 1927-1935, and in aviation medicine at the...

Between 1960 and 1970, Faye Johannes Marley (1900-1992) served as the Science Service medical writer. Before then, Marley had worked as an editor with the American Red Cross, 1943-1955. She had a B.A. from University of Missouri and M.A....

When this photograph was published in 1968, crystallographer Dorita Anne Norton (1931-1972) was on the faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1960-1970. Author of the Atlas of Steroid Structure, Norton had attended...