Her name was Florence Bascom, and she was a woman. Johns Hopkins was in many ways the apotheosis of academic thought for the age, the best of German and British academic traditions fused together to ...

A leading innovator of geology, Florence Bascom was the second woman to earn a PhD in geology in the United States and the first woman employed by the United States Geological Survey, or USGS. A ...

Florence Bascom was highly encouraged to attend college in an era when it wasn't common. She would become a trailblazing geologist, who, in 1893, was the first woman to earn a doctorate from Johns ...

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University Hall was formally dedicated Bascom Hall in 1920 after Florence Bascom requested a university building be named for her father, John Bascom, the university president from 1874 to 1887. Alan ...

Dr. Florence Bascom as Reader in Geology, and Dr. Alfred Hodder as Lecturer in English Literature. Dr. Bascom is the only woman that has received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins ...

Here are a dozen of our favorites. Meghan Bartels wrote an earlier version of this post. Florence Bascom: Helped us understand how mountains form Florence Bascom (1862-1945) discovered her love ...