Lucy Weston Pickett
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Lucy Weston Pickett was a Mary Lyon Professor and Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chair in Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College
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She received her B.A. in chemistry from Mount Holyoke in 1925 and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois
. She taught at Illinois and Goucher College
before returning to Mount Holyoke in 1930. She would stay there until she retired in 1968 when a lectureship was created in her name to honor outstanding women scientists.
In 1957 she received the Francis P. Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society.
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...
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She received her B.A. in chemistry from Mount Holyoke in 1925 and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
. She taught at Illinois and Goucher College
Goucher College
Goucher College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre campus. The school has approximately 1,475 undergraduate students studying in 31 majors and six interdisciplinary...
before returning to Mount Holyoke in 1930. She would stay there until she retired in 1968 when a lectureship was created in her name to honor outstanding women scientists.
In 1957 she received the Francis P. Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society.