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Ellen Henrietta Swasllow Richards



Ellen Henrietta Swasllow Richards was the first chemist to earn a degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); however, the professors at MIT did not want the first person to earn a degree to be a female, so they did not give her a degree in chemistry. Although she did not make it, she later petitioned the Woman's education association of Boston to fund raise for the opening of the Woman's laboratory at MIT