The Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship for Women was established in 1908 by Emile Berliner in honor of his mother, and first awarded in 1909. The fellowship was award biennially and provided $1200 to support a woman studying physics, chemistry, or biology in either America or Europe. The fellowship was open to women holding the degree of doctor of philosophy or otherwise capable of conducting higher research. The first chair of the awarding committee was Christine Ladd-Franklin,[1] who was also instrumental in the establishment of the fellowship.[2] In 1911, an increase in funding meant that the fellowship could be offered every year.[3]
Recipients edit
- 1909: Caroline M. McGill, zoology
- 1911-1912: Edna Carter
- 1912: Gertrude Rand, psychology[4]
- 1913: Elizabeth Laird, physics[4]
- 1915: Janet Howell Clark, physiology and biophysics[4][5]
- 1916?: Ethel Browne Harvey, zoology[6][4]
- 1916-17: Carlotta Maury, geology[4] (confirmed by a letter to Christine Ladd Franklin from H. Ries, in box 18 of the Ladd-Franklin Archives at Columbia University)
- 1926: Hope Hibbard, biology and zoology
- 1926-27: Helen R. Downes, medicine (confirmed by the minutes of the annual meeting of the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship Committee, 1926, in box 18 of the Ladd-Franklin Archives at Columbia University)
- 1928: Sally Hughes-Schrader, zoology
- 1934: Emma Margaret Dietz, chemistry[7]
- 1938: Margaret Nast Lewis, physics[8]
- 1939: Olga Hartman, zoology[9]
- 1939: Dorothy Davis Locanthi, astronomer
- [unknown date]: Carol Jane Anger Rieke, astronomy
- [unknown date]: Edna Carter, physics[8][4]
- [unknown date]: Frances Wick, physics[8]
References edit
- ^ "The Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship for Women". Science. 28 (728): 832. 1908. Bibcode:1908Sci....28Q.832.. doi:10.1126/science.28.728.832. JSTOR 1635663. PMID 17810786.
- ^ Elinson, Richard P. (31 May 2018). "Women's Prize: Be More Generous". Nature. 557: 637.
- ^ Ladd-Franklin, Christine (24 November 1911). "The Sarah Berliner Fellowship". Science: 705–706.
- ^ a b c d e f Rossiter, Margaret (1982). Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 49–50.
- ^ Office of Public Relations, University of Rochester (May 1970). "Janet Howell Clark (1889-1969)". Radiation Research. 42 (2): 424–425 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Browne, Ethel Nicholson (1916). "A comparative study of the chromosomes of six species of notonecta". Journal of Morphology. 27 (1): 119–161.
- ^ "A.A.U.W. Awards Seven Fellowships". Top O' The World - WCU. No. 13, no. 7. February 27, 1934. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Lewis of Physics Dept. Given High AAUW Honor". Vassar Miscellany News. No. XII, no. 3. 12 February 1938. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ Hartman, Olga (September 1983)[1939]. "Travels with Olga". SCAMIT Newsletter. Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists. 2 (6): 3.