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
Ellen Swallow Richards quotes about
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.