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19th-century American women scientists

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
American astronomer and human calculator (1868–1921)
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)
Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)
Florence Bascom
American geologist (1862–1945)
Antonia Maury
American astronomer (1866–1952)
Florence Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer (1863 – 1948)
Alice Eastwood
Canadian American botanist (1859-1953)
Dorothea Klumpke
American astronomer (1861-1942)
Mary Watson Whitney
American astronomer (1847–1921)
Mary Proctor
British astronomer (1862–1957)
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Psychologist and logician (1847-1930)
Rosa Smith Eigenmann
American ichthyologist (1858-1947)
M. Carey Thomas
American suffragist (1857–1935)
Mary J. Rathbun
American carcinologist (1860–1943)
Annie Morrill Smith
American botanist (1856-1946)
Margaret Eliza Maltby
American physicist (1860–1944)
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
American educator, botanist, author (1793-1884)
Mary Treat
American biologist, botanist and entomologist (1830-1923)
Katherine Olivia Sessions
American botanist and landscape architect (1857-1940)
Eliza Frances Andrews
American writer, botanist, and teacher (1840-1931)
Zonia Baber
American geologist, geographer, researcher and university teacher
Rosalie Slaughter Morton
American physician (1876–1968)
Wrexie Leonard
American astronomer
Cornelia Clapp
American zoologist (1849-1934)
Mary Elizabeth Banning
American mycologist (1822-1903)
Mary Emilie Holmes
American geologist, palaeontologist, teacher and philanthropist (d. 1906)
Laura Alberta Linton
American chemist and physician (1853-1915)
Josephine Silone Yates
American chemist
Isabelle Stone
American physicist
Evelyn Leland
American astronomer
Charlotte Barnum
mathematician
Ellen Hayes
American mathematician and astronomer
Althea Sherman
American ornithologist, artist and educator (1853–1943)
Margaretta Hare Morris
American entomologist (1797-1867)
Elizabeth Fleischman
American radiographer (1867-1905)
Caroline Coventry Haynes
American painter, botanist, bryologist and botanical collector (1858-1951)
Rebecca Merritt Austin
American botanist and plant collector (1832–1919)
Annie Chambers Ketchum
American educator, lecturer, and writer (1824-1904)
Katharine Jeannette Bush
American zoologist (1855-1937)
Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon
American author, scientist and researcher
Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft
American botanist, scientific illustrator, writer and advocate for women's rights (1781-1828)
Lucy Say
American painter, scientific illustrator and botanical collector (1801-1886)
Ida Augusta Keller
American plant physiologist and teacher (1866-1932)
Emma J. Cole
American botanist, botanical collector and teacher (1845-1910)
Rachel Lloyd
American chemist (1839-1900)
Eliza Grew Jones
Christian missionary and lexicographer
Wilhelmine Key
American biologist
Marcia Keith
physicist
Erminnie A. Smith
American anthropologist and folklorist
Ethel Bailey Higgins
U.S. botanist (1866-1963)
Lilian Vaughan Morgan
American geneticist
Frances Emily White
American physician and feminist advocate
Theodosia B. Shepherd
American botanist, horticulturist (1845–1906)
Mary Ann Booth
American microscopist, photographer (1843-1922)
Lucy Mary Cavanagh
American botanist (1871-1936)
Ella Church Strobell
American cytologist and zoologist
Ida Shepard Oldroyd
American conchologist, curator, and paleontologist (1856-1940)
Ellen Powell Thompson
American teacher and botanist (1840-1911)