Women Scientists Posters, Prints, & Photographs, “P...-”
notable and famous women scientists for social studies and science classrooms.

Beatrix Potter
b. 7-28-1866; London, England
d. 12-22-1943

Mycologist - a specialist in the biology of fungus - and conservationist Beatrix Potter is best known as author and illustrator of children's books featuring anthropomorphic characters such as in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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Anne Pratt
b. 12-5-1806; Strood, Kent, England
d. 1893; Shepherd's Bush, London

Anne Pratt, a self taught botanist, was one of the best known botanical illustrators of the Victorian age.

Ann Preston
b. 12-1-1813; West Grove, PA
d. 4-18-1872; Philadelphia

Ann Preston was the first woman to be made dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), a school founded by Quakers. She strove to make the best educational opportunities, such as clinical lectures at the Philadelphia Hospital, available to her students. She also organized a woman's hospital and established a nursing school.

FYI - She was a member of the first class at WMCP, graduating at age 38. Earlier in her life she worked as an abolitionist, joined the temperance movement, and taught physiology and hygiene to all-female classes.

Pearl Primus
b. 11-29-1919; Trinidad and Tobago
d. 10-29-1994

Pearl Primus, who was trained in classical dance, received her Ph.D. degree in anthropolgy from New York University. Her studies, and travels to the interior villages of Africa, the Caribbean, and throughout the southern United States, gave Primus unique training and insight into the African dance heritage.

in July 1991 she was awarded the national Medal of Arts by President Bush, the highest honor given by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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