“The woman who has the courage to enter the laboratory and stand there in the face of the sneers of the men...has done more for the cause of woman's suffrage than all the eloquent speeches that were ever made.”

About Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Scientist • American

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was a pioneering American industrial and environmental chemist in the 19th century. As the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she became its first...