Mary Putnam Jacobi

Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born
Mary Corinna Putnam

(1842-08-31)August 31, 1842
London, England, UK
DiedJune 10, 1906(1906-06-10) (aged 63)
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationFemale Medical College of Pennsylvania
Faculté de Médecine de Paris
Known forMedicine
Spouse
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(m. 1873)​
Children3
Parent(s)George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven
FamilyGeorge Haven Putnam, John Bishop Putnam, Herbert Putnam (brothers)

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (née Putnam; August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an English-American physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist.[1] She was the first woman admitted to study medicine at the University of Paris and the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college in the United States.[2][3]

Jacobi had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education.[4] Her scientific rebuttal of the popular idea that menstruation made women unsuited to education was influential in the fight for women's educational opportunities.[4]

Jacobi was a founding member of the League for Political Education[5] and the Women's Medical Association of New York City, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.[6]

  1. ^ Denise Grady (November 11, 2013). "Honoring Female Pioneers in Science". New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2014. Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, born in 1842 in London, grew up in New York and began publishing short stories at 17. But what she really wanted was to be a doctor. ...
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  3. ^ Basye, Arthur Herbert (1917). "The Earl of Carlisle and the Board of Trade, 1779". The American Historical Review. 22 (2): 334–339. doi:10.2307/1834966. ISSN 0002-8762.
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  5. ^ The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women. Halvord publishing Company, Incorporated. 1924.
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