The First and Only married Woman to have Received a Ph.D in chemistry at the Turn of the century: Experimental Food Study

First Edition

Agnes Morgan and Irene Hall. Experimental Food Study. Designed "for use in the beginning course of foods in the Department of Household Science at the University of California". Presumed First Edition. Quite a bit of chemistry. Appendix; 2 indices. . 8vo. Agnes Fay Morgan (May 4, 1884 – July 20, 1968) was an American chemist and academic. She completed a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1914. She may have been the only married woman to have received a Ph.D. in chemistry in the first few years of the 20th century .She became a the longtime chair of the home economics program at the University of California Berkley. Her program was strongly grounded in science, and students admitted into the program were required to have a level of science education that was not typical of home economics programs at the time. Some of the most significant scientific research to emerge from Morgan's laboratory concerned the biochemistry of vitamins and the nutritional value of foods. Morgan analyzed processed foods and characterized their vitamin composition. Gilt lettering on spine of brown boards; some bumping, rubbing, rolled spine, scuffing, but overall very good Condition.

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