Isobel Sinesi
In 1936, Isobel Sinesi joined the faculty of the School of Fashion Design and led the school in developing its curriculum to focus entirely on fashion design.
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Dr Anne Hagopian
Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the Harvard Observatory from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College.
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
Abby Williams May
American suffragist and educator
Adelaide George Bennett
American poet
Adelia Field Johnston
American educator
Fanny Goldstein
As the first Jewish woman to become a branch librarian in Massachusetts, Fanny Goldstein (1895-1961) was also collector and bibliographer of Judaica for the Boston Public Library.
Alison Dillon
Alison Dillon was an excellent mathematician and an outstanding secondary school teacher with a unique teaching style.
Amy Rayson
Amy Rayson was a graduate of Girton College, University of Cambridge but spent most of her career teaching mathematics in private schools in New York. She was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.
Dr Vera Spinadel
Vera W de Spinadel was the first woman to be awarded a mathematics Ph.D. by the University of Buenos Aires. She was an Argentine mathematician whose main contributions were to mathematics in architecture, art, and design. She introduced the “metallic means family” which generalises the Golden Ratio.