Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richardswas an industrial and environmental chemist in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 December 1842
CountryUnited States of America
One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.
The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.