Ellen Swallow: The Woman Who Founded Ecology - Hardcover

Clarke, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0695803883 ISBN 13: 9780695803889

Publisher: Follett Publishing Company, 1973

Synopsis

To those who think of ecology as a crusade of our day, it may come as a shock that a woman - one hundred years ahead of her time- was, as a scientist, the first person to be concerned with pure water, pure air, pure food, good soil, product labeling for consumers, nutrition, industrial safety, sanitation, school lunch programs, public health, the fight for women's rights, including the right to be as well educated as men- and much more.

This is the remarkable story, by Robert Clarke, of that remarkable First Lady of Science who had to her credit more firsts than any woman of her time. At a time when the earth's population belatedly bleats its rising concern for an environment that threatens to extinguish life in any form, a highly buffed nose is all that recalls the brilliant career of MIT's first woman student; its first woman graduate; and its first woman faculty member - the First Lady of Science and Technology 100 years ago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Follett Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0695803883
• ISBN 13: 9780695803889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276