Women at the MBL

Women have been involved at the MBL from it's inception. The Woman's Education Association, founded in 1872, were founding members of the MBL, supporting the formation of the seaside institution for research and teaching. Over the years, a large number of women have passed through the MBL as students, instructors, investigators, and more recently, as faculty members. There is not enough space to devote to the entirety of women's accomplishments at the MBL over the years, so this section serves to highlight just a few women who made contributions to the MBL community from 1888 to 1950. 

Cornelia M. Clapp

Ida H. Hyde

Julia Barlow Platt

Nettie Maria Stevens

Gertrude Stein

Mary Jane Hogue

Jewel Plummer Cobb

Ethel Browne Harvey

Sister Florence Marie Scott

Rebecca Craighill Lancefield

Sally Hughes Schrader

Barbara McClintock

Rachel Carson

Margaret Sumwalt McCouch

 

Suggested citation
Facemire, Challie. 2018. "The Marine Biological Laboratory." MBL History Project digital exhibit. https://history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/marine-biological-laboratory
Bibliography

A Convening Place

  • Allen, Garland. 1989. Introduction to 100 Years Exploring Life 1888-1988: The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
  • Maienschein, Jane. 1989. 100 Years Exploring Life 1888-1988: The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.
  • Maienschein, Jane. 2013. “The Marine Biological Laboratory.” MBL History Project article. http://history.archives.mbl.edu/archives/items/marine-biological-laboratory

Dual Mission

  • MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein. 2018. “Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.” eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0027989

MBL Directors 1888-2018

  • MacCord, Kate, and Jane Maienschein. 2018. “Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.” eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0027989

Select Scientific Notables

  • Allen, Garland, Dletrich, Michael, Huber, Florian. 2016. "Victor Hamburger and Experimental Embryology." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/viktor-hamburger-and-experimental-embryology
  • Elliott, Steve. 2009. "Jocques Loeb." The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. embryo.asu.edu/pages/jacques-loeb-1859-1924
  • LaTourelle, J.J. 2016. "Squids, Axons, and Action Potentials: Stories of Neurobiological Discovery." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/squids-axons-and-action-potentials-stories-neurobiological-discovery
  • LaTourelle, Jonathan Jacob. 2015. "The Neurobiology of Vision at the MBL." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/neurobiology-vision-mbl
  • Lowe, James. 2016. "Shinya Inoué: Capturing Dynamic Cellular Processes." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/shinya-inoue-capturing-dynamic-cellular-processes
  • Maienschein, Jane. 2015. "Edwin Grant Conklin." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/edwin-grant-conklin
  • Nobel Prize. 2018. "Albert Szent-Gyorgyi - Biographical." The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobelprize.org. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1937/szent-gy...
  • Steinert, Beatrice and Jane Maienschein. 2016. "Edmund Beecher Wilson." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/edmund-beecher-wilson
  • Turriziani Colonna, Federica. 2016. "Envisioning the MBL: Whitman's Efforts to Create an Independent Institution." MBL History Project digital exhibit. history.archives.mbl.edu/exploring/exhibits/envisioning-mbl-whitmans-efforts-create-independent-institution

Women at the MBL

Woman's Education Association

Woods Hole Community