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1862–1945 United States

Florence Bascom (July 14, 1862 – June 18, 1945) was a pioneer for women as a geologist and educator, in 1893 being the first woman to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and 1896 being the first woman to work for the United States Geological Survey. Geologists refer to Bascom as the "first woman geologist in America".

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It is an interesting manifestation of the attitude of certain public critics toward change, that when the collegiate training of women was first on trial there were clamorous complaints that the health of young women was being wrecked; now the same class of public critics are loudly complaining that college women are "Amazons."

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