Anna Lockhart Flanigen (January 26, 1852 – February 19, 1928) was an American scientist. She was one of the first two women students at the University of Pennsylvania, and later taught chemistry at Mount Holyoke College. [1]
Flanigen was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of William C. Flanigan and Jane Adams Flanigan. (Her family name is spelled variously in sources as Flanigen, Flanigan, Flanagan; she used the first spelling in publications.) [2]
Flanigen attended the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's Towne Scientific School as a "special student" in 1876, [2] along with Gertrude Klein Pierce; [3] they were the first women students at Penn. [4] [5] They were allowed to take courses but were considered ineligible for a degree, instead receiving "certificates of proficiency" in 1878. [6] Flanigen pursued further studies in Berlin and London, [7] worked with William Ramsay, and returned to Penn to complete a Ph.D. in 1906. [8] [9] Her doctoral thesis under Edgar Fahs Smith was titled "The electrolytic precipitation of copper from an alkaline cyanide electrolyte" (1906). [10]
Flanigen taught physics and chemistry at Penn after college, and worked as a chemist and assayer at the Keystone Watch Case Company from 1883 to 1898. [2] [4] She was secretary of the New Century Guild of Working Women when it formed in Philadelphia in 1886. [11] She attended the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics in 1903. [12] She was an assistant professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College from 1903 [13] to 1910. [7]
Flanigen died in 1928, in Philadelphia, aged 76 years. [14]
Anna Lockhart Flanigen (January 26, 1852 – February 19, 1928) was an American scientist. She was one of the first two women students at the University of Pennsylvania, and later taught chemistry at Mount Holyoke College. [1]
Flanigen was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of William C. Flanigan and Jane Adams Flanigan. (Her family name is spelled variously in sources as Flanigen, Flanigan, Flanagan; she used the first spelling in publications.) [2]
Flanigen attended the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's Towne Scientific School as a "special student" in 1876, [2] along with Gertrude Klein Pierce; [3] they were the first women students at Penn. [4] [5] They were allowed to take courses but were considered ineligible for a degree, instead receiving "certificates of proficiency" in 1878. [6] Flanigen pursued further studies in Berlin and London, [7] worked with William Ramsay, and returned to Penn to complete a Ph.D. in 1906. [8] [9] Her doctoral thesis under Edgar Fahs Smith was titled "The electrolytic precipitation of copper from an alkaline cyanide electrolyte" (1906). [10]
Flanigen taught physics and chemistry at Penn after college, and worked as a chemist and assayer at the Keystone Watch Case Company from 1883 to 1898. [2] [4] She was secretary of the New Century Guild of Working Women when it formed in Philadelphia in 1886. [11] She attended the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics in 1903. [12] She was an assistant professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College from 1903 [13] to 1910. [7]
Flanigen died in 1928, in Philadelphia, aged 76 years. [14]