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Mary Engle Pennington

1872 - 1952

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Mary Engle Pennington (October 8, 1872 – December 27, 1952) was an American bacteriological chemist, food scientist and refrigeration engineer. She was an innovator in the preservation, handling, storage, and transportation of perishable foods and the first female lab chief at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She was awarded 5 patents (3 of which were shared), received the Notable Service Medal from President Herbert Hoover, and received the Garvin-Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society. She is an inductee of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame and the ASHRAE Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Mary Engle Pennington is the 582nd most popular chemist (down from 561st in 2024), the 11,161st most popular biography from United States (down from 9,902nd in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Mary Engle Pennington ranks 582 out of 602. Before her are Ira Remsen, Gilbert Stork, Benjamin Silliman, Rachel Fuller Brown, John George Children, and Susan Solomon. After her are Martyn Poliakoff, Richard Zare, Ching Wan Tang, Willis R. Whitney, Marie Maynard Daly, and Esther M. Conwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Mary Engle Pennington ranks 193. Before her are Ľudmila Podjavorinská, William Desmond Taylor, Harald Natvig, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Anna Held, and James Young. After her are Harlan F. Stone, Henry Seiling, William Nicholson, Ralph Lewis, Michael Joseph Savage, and Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. Among people deceased in 1952, Mary Engle Pennington ranks 174. Before her are Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Susan Peters, Norman Taber, August Alle, Gertrude Lawrence, and Ted Morgan. After her are Willie Brown, Beattie Ramsay, Robert P. Patterson, Alice Austen, Elizabeth Kenny, and Philip G. Epstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Engle Pennington ranks 11,160 out of 20,380. Before her are Hillary Brooke (1914), Scott Rudin (1958), and Red Skelton (1913). After her are Harlan F. Stone (1872), Lena Raine (1984), Erwin Hahn (1921), Les Claypool (1963), Granville Woods (1856), Abraham Baldwin (1754), Virginia Davis (1918), Brooke Smith (1967), and Kevin Michael Richardson (1964).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Mary Engle Pennington ranks 110. Before her are Mildred Cohn (1913), Ira Remsen (1846), Benjamin Silliman (1779), Rachel Fuller Brown (1898), and Susan Solomon (1956). After her are Richard Zare (1939), Willis R. Whitney (1868), Marie Maynard Daly (1921), Esther M. Conwell (1922), Richard Lerner (1938), Ruth R. Benerito (1916), and Donald Howard Menzel (1901).

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