Florence Bascom

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What Wikipedia says

Florence Bascom (July 14, 1862 – June 18, 1945) was a pioneer American woman geologist and educator. Bascom was the second woman to earn a PhD in geology in the United States. She received her PhD in 1893 from Johns Hopkins University and was the first woman to earn a PhD at the institution in any field.

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