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A Complicated Woman: Leona Zacharias

Lost Women of Science

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My Grandmother's Distinctive Collections

Leona Ruth Hurwitz Zacharias was the only woman to receive a PhD in anatomy. Her CV shows that within her first decade of marriage, she had earned a master's degree in zoology. She held three jobs simultaneously: Research assistant at the American Museum of Natural History,. anatomy instructor to medical students at Columbia and taught classes at Hunter College.

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