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FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN
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FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN
Business and Community Leaders
| Antoinette Brown Blackwell | · First official woman pastor in America (1852). | |
| Mary Baker Eddy | · Founder of Christian Science (1879). | |
| Elizabeth Pinckney | · Developer of indigo as a major commercial crop that helped our young country's economy. |
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Scientists and Inventors |
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| Elizabeth Blackwell | · First woman medical doctor in the United States (1849). | |
| Annie Jump Cannon | · Woman astronomer known for cataloging the stars. | |
| Rachel Carson | · Marine biologist who wrote Silent Spring and other books about ecology. | |
| Dian Fossey | · Zoologist who studied wild gorillas and found them to be gentle, social animals. | |
| Alice Hamilton | · Physician whose efforts to improve health conditions in industrial workplaces led to workers' compensation laws in the United States. |
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| Grace Hopper | · Mathematician who helped develop the language for the first commercial electronic computer. |
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| Barbara McClintock | · Geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in medicine (1983) for discovering earlier that genes transfer their positions on chromosomes. |
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| Margaret Mead | · Anthropologist known for her studies of primitive societies. | |
| Maria Mitchell | · Astronomer who was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1848). |
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| Florence Sabin | · First woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences for her medical research. |
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Space Pioneers |
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| Jacqueline Cochran | · First woman to break the sound barrier (1953). | |
| Amelia Earhart | · First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone (1932). | |
| Mae Jemison | · First African-American woman in space (1992). | |
| Christa McAuliffe | · Selected to be the first "teacher in space" (1986). | |
| Sally Ride First | · American woman astronaut to participate in an orbital mission (1983). | |
Dancers |
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| Agnes de Mille | · Ballerina and choreographer for the New York City Ballet. | |
| Ruth St. Denis | · Cofounder of modern dance in America with Isadora Duncan. | |
| Isadora Duncan | · Creator of an expressive dance style and cofounder of modern dance in America with Ruth St. Denis. |
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| Katherine Dunham | · First black choreographer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City (1963). | |
| Martha Graham | · Choreographer of American modern dance for more than 50 years. | |
| Maria Tallchief | · Greatly admired Native American ballerina who founded the Chicago City Ballet (1979). |
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Artists |
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| Margaret Bourke-White | · Major photographer and photojournalist. | |
| Marcia Brown | · Three-time winner of Caldecott Medal. | |
| Mary Cassatt | · Impressionist painter. | |
| Barbara Cooney | · Winner of Caldecott Medal (twice). | |
| Cathy Guisewite | · Cartoonist and creator of the cartoon strip "Cathy." | |
| Malvina Hoffman | · Sculptor best known for her 101 life-size bronzes, Races of Man (1932). | |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | · Abstract painter. | |
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