Ellen Swallow Richards
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 December 1842
- Died
- 30 March 1911
- Works
- 44
Top works
- The story of the New England kitchen
- Investigations upon nitrification and the nitrifying organism
- Good luncheons for rural schools without a kitchen
- Reduction of nitrates by bacteria and consequent loss of nitrogen
- Municipal responsibility for healthy school-houses
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 27,997x
- Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
· 2005 · cited 15,350x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 12,967x
- Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation
· 2013 · cited 11,682x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1842-12-03 ) December 3, 1842, Dunstable, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- March 30, 1911 (1911-03-30) (aged 68), Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
- Resting place
- Christ Church Cemetery, Gardiner, Maine , U.S.
- Education
- Vassar College Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Occupations
- Chemist professor
- Known for
- Home economics , Euthenics , School meals
- Spouse
- Robert Hallowell Richards ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 4, 1875</span>"}]]}'>1875 )
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Key dates
- Born
- 3 December 1842
- Died
- 30 March 1911
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henrietta
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dunstable
- Place of death
- Boston
- Occupation
- meteorological observer
- Languages spoken
Article
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (née Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition.
Richards graduated from Westford Academy (second oldest secondary school in Massachusetts) in 1862. She was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated in 1873 and later became its first female instructor. Richards was the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry, which she earned from Vassar College in 1870.
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