Ellen Swallow Richards

Ellen Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 — March 30, 1911) was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 1800s, pioneering the field of sanitary engineering and founding the field of home economics. Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its first female instructor, the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to earn a degree in chemistry.

External link

• Bill Kovarik, "Ellen Swallow Richards and the Progressive women's reform movement"
• National Women's hall of Fame: Ellen Swallow Richards
• The Revenge of Ellen Swallow, New York Times editorial, February 20, 2005
• Tributes to Ellen Swallow Richards
• Publications by and about Ellen Swallow Richards