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Mignon Talbot Quotes

1869–1950 United States

Mignon Talbot (August 16, 1869 – July 18, 1950) was an American paleontologist, noteworthy as the first woman to discover and name a non-bird dinosaur. She became in 1904 the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in geology from Yale University and became in 1909 the first woman to be elected a member of the Paleontological Society.

United States
Academics
Paleontologists
Scientists

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Women are in many respects superior to men, since generally speaking, they have more patience and often more taste and discrimination in arranging collections and more deftness in manipulating materials. How true this is!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mignon Talbot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.