Lucy Weston Pickett

Lucy Weston Pickett

Lucy Weston Pickett (1904 - 1997) was a "Mary Lyon Professor" and "Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chair in Chemistry" at Mount Holyoke College.

She received her B.A. in chemistry from Mount Holyoke in 1925 and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. She taught at Illinois and Goucher College before returning to Mount Holyoke in 1930. She would stay there until she retired in 1968 when a lectureship was created in her name to honor outstanding women scientists.

In 1957 she received the Francis P. Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society.

External links

* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/971205/notable.html Obituary]
* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/030703/pickett.shtml MIT Chemist to Deliver Lucy W. Pickett Lecture]
* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/111700/pickett.shtml Expert on Cell Surfaces to Deliver Lucy W. Pickett Lecture November 20]


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