Cornelia Clapp

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American zoologist (1849-1934)

United States AcademicsLived 1849 to 1934 · aged 85

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Cornelia Maria Clapp was an American educator and zoologist, specializing in marine biology. D. in biology awarded to a woman in the United States from Syracuse University in 1889, and she would earn a second doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1896.

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Clapp (right) with students working in a zoology laboratory at Mount Holyoke College in 1890

Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 1934. Clapp, the only woman pictured, stands near the center of the front row.

Clapp at the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1934

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Cornelia Maria Clapp was an American educator and zoologist, specializing in marine biology. She earned the first Ph.D. in biology awarded to a woman in the United States from Syracuse University in 1889, and she would earn a second doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1896. Clapp was the first female researcher employed at the Marine Biological Laboratory, as well as its only female trustee during the first half of the 20th century. She was rated one of the top 150 zoologists in the United States in 1903, and her name was starred in the first five editions of American Men of Science.

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