Cornelia Clapp | |
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.jpg) Clapp in 1894 | |
| Born | Cornelia Maria Clapp March 17, 1849 |
| Died | December 31, 1934 (aged 85) |
| Education | Mount Holyoke College Syracuse University University of Chicago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | Mount Holyoke College Marine Biological Laboratory |
| Thesis | The lateral line system of Batrachus tau (1896) |
| Academic advisors | Charles Otis Whitman |
Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 – December 31, 1934)[1] was an American educator and zoologist, specializing in marine biology. She earned the first Ph.D. in biology awarded to a woman in the United States from Syracuse University in 1889,[2][3] and she would earn a second doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1896.[2] Clapp was the first female researcher employed at the Marine Biological Laboratory, as well as its only female trustee during the first half of the 20th century.[4] She was rated one of the top 150 zoologists in the United States in 1903, and her name was starred in the first five editions of American Men of Science (now American Men and Women of Science).[5]
- ^ Reynolds, Moira Davison (2004). American women scientists: 23 inspiring biographies, 1900–2000. McFarland. pp. 5–8. ISBN 0786421614.
- ^ a b "Cornelia M. Clapp". Mount Holyoke College. June 8, 2012. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022.
- ^ "150 Years Timeline". www.syracuse.edu. Syracuse University. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ^ Trustee listings in MBL Annual Reports, 1888-1950
- ^ Bailey, Martha J. (1994). American women in science : [prior to 1950 American women scientists] : a biographical dictionary ([2. Aufl.]. ed.). Denver, Colo. [u.a.]: ABC-Clio. p. 60. ISBN 0-87436-740-9.