By Pamela C. Swallow
This biography highlights the achievements of America's first expert degreed woman scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards (1842--1911). The ebook takes the reader from Richards's youth on a Massachusetts farm the place she used to be schooled at domestic, to her across the world well known successes in a number of branches of science.
• Schools, schools, and libraries are trying to find extra books approximately striking, profitable ladies. Richards prepared the ground for girls to go into quite a few fields of technology formerly believed to be the area of men.
• Currently there's a lot emphasis on foodstuff; Richards pioneered during this box, instructing the yank public approximately fat, carbohydrates, proteins and energy at a time while scarcely somebody knew in their importance.
• Ellen Swallow Richards pioneered a number of fields of technological know-how and know-how, starting doorways for girls to turn into chemists, biologists, geologists, ecologists, nutritionists, dietitians, technological know-how academics, professors, and residential economists.
• Richards started the ecology circulation, rather appropriate in latest international as increasingly more cognizance is being paid to the overall healthiness of our planet.
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