TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICA: DOCTOR RUTH S. COWAN AND ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS
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Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911
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Ellen Swallow was born 3 December 1842 in Dunstable, Massachusetts. She received a B.S. from Vassar College in 1870. She earned another B.S. from M.I.T. in 1873 and, in the same year, an M.A. from Vassar. She studied for a doctorate at M.I.T., but never received it, reportedly because "the heads of the department did not wish a woman to receive the first D.S. in chemistry." In 1875 she married M.I.T. chemistry professor, Robert H. Richards, and devoted the next ten years to advocating for scien...
