Creator: Richards, Alan W

Subjects: Bauer, Walter; Lancefield, Rebecca Price Craighill 1895-1981;McCarty, Maclyn

Type: Black-and-White Prints

Date: 1960

Topic: Women scientists, Bacteriology

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-5069]

Summary: Harvard University biologist Walter Bauer, Chairman of the Whitney Foundation's Scientific Advisory Committee; Rockefeller Institute microbiologist Rebecca Price Craighill Lancefield (1895-1981); and Rockefeller Institute biologist Macyln McCarty, 1960. Lancefield was accepting the T. Duckett Jones Memorial Award in October 1960 for her work on hemolytic streptococci. She served as president of both the Society of American Bacteriologists (1943) and American Association of Immunologists (1961) and in 1970 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for her pioneering work on streptococci and their relation to rheumatic fever.

Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives