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.

Publications

• Richards, Ellen. First lessons in food and diet. Boston: Whitcomb & Barrows, 1904.
• Richards, Ellen. The Cost of shelter. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1905.
• Richards, Ellen. Meat and drink. Boston: Health-Education League, .
• Richards, Ellen. The Efficient worker. Boston: Health-Education League, c1908.
• Richards, Ellen. Health in labor camps. Boston: Health-Education League, c1908.
• Richards, Ellen. Tonics and stimulants. Boston: Health-Education League, .
• Richards, Ellen. Air, water, and food: from a sanitary standpoint. 4th ed., rev. and rewritten. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1914.