Women in science we admire
Gloria Hollister
Gloria Hollister nominated by Felicity Blake
Gloria Hollister was an adventurous American scientist, conservationist and explorer. She graduated as a zoologist in 1924 and made world record-setting deep sea dives in a Bathysphere off Bermuda in the 1930s. In addition to oceanography, ichthyology and marine ecology, she also led expeditions to Guyana and Trinidad for the Department of Tropical Research (1936), co-founded the Red Cross’ blood donor centre in Brooklyn, NYC during WWII, and brought about the protection of the USA’s first Natural History Landmark by the Department of the Interior.
Gloria Hollister
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