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Who was the first woman in the US accepted to any school of science and technology?

  • Marie Curie

  • Rosalind Franklin

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  • Ellen Swallow Richards

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Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman in the United States accepted to any school of science and technology. She was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1868 and graduated in 1873 with a degree in chemistry. Richards went on to have a long and distinguished career in science, becoming a pioneer in the field of home economics and the first female faculty member at MIT.
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