
Thank you for expressing interest in improving coverage related to women in science on Wikipedia!
Every woman listed on this to-do list is included in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Here you will find a link to an article that needs improvement or an article that needs to be created, and resources for use.
To-do list
- Annie Montague Alexander - Bontanist, needs improvement
- Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey - Ornithologist Images on Commons!
- Carole Baldwin - Ichthyologist
- Florence Bascom - Geologist Images on Commons!
- Doris Holmes Blake - Entomologist
- Emma Lucy Braun - Botanist
- Denise Breitburg - Marine Ecologistphoto
- Janine Brown - Research Scientist
- Nellie A. Brown - Botanist
- Kari Bruwelheide - Forensic Anthropologist, article needs clean-up
- Mary Van Rensselaer Buell - ChemistImages on Commons!
- Charlotte Gower Chapman - Anthopologist
- Mary Agnes Chase - Botanist
- Mary Strong Clemens - needs improved inline citations
- Elzada Clover - Botanist, Curator of the University of Michigan Botanical Gardens, One of 2 first women to complete entire run of the Grand Canyon
- Doris Mable Cochran - Herpetologist[htp://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217308]
- Wilmatte Porter Cockerell - Botanist
- Wilmatte Porter Cockerell - Botanist who worked w/ husband, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
- Rose E. Collom - Botanist, needs expansion [www.nps.gov/grca/historyculture/muscol.htm]
- Helen S. Conant - Natural history author
- Mireya Correa - Botanist, Herbarium Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - Needs English pagephoto
- Elizabeth Cottrell - Geologist, National Museum of Natural History
- Carla J. Dove - Ornithologist, protegé of Roxie Collie Laybourne
- Helen M. Duncan - Geologist
- Andrea K. Dupree - Astrophysicist
- Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis - Botanist, orphan wiki article
- Giuseppina (Pepi) Fabbiano - Astrophysicistphoto!
- Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr - ChemistImages on Commons!
- See Wanda Kirkbride Farr, entry created in 2006.
- Edna H. Fawcett - Botanist
- Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris - Botanist Stub article that can be expanded with Archives' resources.
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher - Anthroplogist (Ask an archivist!)
- Margaret D. Foster - Chemist Image on Commons
- Helen Morgenthau Fox - Botanist
- Vicki Funk - Botanist
- Dorothy Garrod - Paleontologist, Image
- Julia Ann Gardner - Paleontologist (Ask an archivist!)
- Adelia Sarah Gates - Illustrator
- Mary Hagedorn - Research Scientist
- Sara Hallager - Biologistphoto
- Margaret Harwood - Astronomer photo
- Alice Haskins - Botanist
- Clara H. Hasse - Botanist
- Florence Hedges - Botanist
- Marie Agnes Hinrichs - Zoologist, M.D.
- Jo Gayle Howard - Veterinarian, Reproductive Biologist
- See JoGayle Howard - Needs image, plus add to record with new info!
- Libbie Hyman - Zoologist, Image
- Genevieve Estelle Jones - ornithologist
- Barbara Kegerreis Lunde - Aerospace Engineer
- Pauline Kirby - Nurse
- Dr. Devra G. Kleiman - Biologist, researched reproductive behavior of giant pandas and golden lion tamarins Image on Archives' website, No Known Copyright Restrictions TemplateImage on Flickr!
- Edith Kroupa - ChemistImages on Commons!
- Roxie Collie Laybourne - Forensic ornithologistImage on Commons
- Margaret Mann Lesley - Geneticist
- Elise L'Esperance - Pathologist
- Margaret Eliza Maltby - Physicist Photo available
- Lucile Quarry Mann - ZoologistImage on Commons
- Dr. Ursula B. Marvin - Geologist Image on Flickr!
- Melissa K. McCormick - Environmental biologistphoto
- Mary Isabel McCracken- Entomologist
- Lucia McCulloch - Botanist
- Catherine Macfarlane - Gynecologist, Cancer Researcher
- Susan Adams McKelvey
- Mary Elizabeth Hickox Mandels - Microbiologist, Leader in Bioenergy Research
- Pauline Gracia Beery Mack - ChemistImage on Commons
- Ida May Mellen - Biologist and IchthyologistPicture available
- Jeanne Helen Osiecki - Organic Chemistphoto
- Dr. Copper Aitken-Palmer - Chief Veterinarian, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoo
- Eva J. Pell - Biologist, Science Administrator
- Mary Engle Pennington - Chemist, Needs link to SIA resourcesImages on Commons!
- Briana L. Pobiner - Paleoanthropologist
- Ellen Schulz Quillin - Botanist, article needs expansion
- Agnes J. Quirk - Botanist
- Katherine Ralls - Research Scientist
- Mary Jane Rathbun - Zoologist
- Fern P. Rathe - Organic Chemist Image on Commons
- Dixy Lee Ray - Marine Biologist, Govenor, Needs SIA links
- Mildred Catherine Rebstock - ChemistImages on Commons!
- Eileen R. L. Reed - Australian Plant Pathologist http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_306410]
- Mary E. Rice - Zoologist & first Director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
- Harriet Richardson-Searle - Zoologist
- Mary Dora Rogick - Invertebrate Zoologist
- Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert - Astronomer
- Viola Shelly Shantz - Biologist
- Miriam Elizabeth Simpson - ChemistImage on Commons!
- Elsie Pomeroy McElroy Slater - Botanist, Artist
- Dr. Brandie Smith - Senior Curator & Associate Director for Animal Care, National Zoophoto
- Nucharin Songsasen - Reproduction Biologist, Wild Canidsphoto
- Jane Stafford - Journalist, Chemist Many images here and on commons
- Laurel van der Wal - Aeronautical Engineer
- Marion Winifred Sheahan Nurse
- Matilda Coxe Stevenson - Anthropology Ask an archivist!
- Dora Dougherty Strother - Human Factors Engineer, Pilot
- Marjorie Van de Water - Journalist
- Winona Welch - botanist
- Sandra Welner - medical researcher, inventor, advocate for disabled women's healthcare
- Belinda Wilkes - astrophysicist
- Gerharda Wilbrink - Plant Pathologist
- Anna Allen Wright - Herpetologist
- Melinda A. Zeder - Anthropologist, Curator of Old World Archaeology
- María Wonenburger -Mathematician
- Images can be both found and added at the Commons category Female scientists
Outcomes
When you succeed in updating or creating an article, move it from the to-do list, to this outcomes list! If you translate an article please mention the language, as well!
- New articles
- Mary Lura Sherrill - Chemist
- Miriam Elizabeth Simpson - Anatomist, MD
- Sandra Welner - Physician, Inventor
- Pauline Gracia Beery Mack - Chemist
- Eva J. Pell - Plant Pathologist, Science Administrator
- Marjorie Van de Water - Science Journalist
- Christine Jones Forman - Astrophysicist
- Alice Haskins - Botanist
- Charlotte Gower Chapman - Anthropologist
- Dr. Christine Jones Forman - Astrophysicist
- Mary Hagedorn- Physiologist and Research Scientist
- Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr - Chemist, Botanist. Wanda Kirkbride Farr already existed, so added a redirect page.
- Nellie A. Brown - Botanist
- Updated articles
- Added an info box with the correct information and picture with Bailey614 to Helen Morgenthau Fox and uploaded image used in infobox to Commons with proper copyright template.
- Updated Margaret Eliza Maltby
- Updated Wanda Kirkbride Farr -- added infobox, picture, citations, reflist, and a redirect page from Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr
- Images uploaded to Commons
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