Katharine Jeanette Bush was an American zoölogist. She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public and private schools of New Haven, Connecticut She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in the sciences at Yale University. Bush studied zoölogy under Prof. A. E. Verrill and in 1879 assumed the position of assistant in the zoölogical museum at Yale University. She served on the United States fish commission, … Wikipedia
In 1901, Katharine Jeannette Bush (b. 1855, d. 1937) became the first woman at Yale University to receive a Ph.D. in the sciences. www.yale.edu/peabody/archives/ypmbios/bush.html
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