Comments on: Who was the first woman to receive a PhD from a University in England? http://www.nfowis.org/first/who-was-the-first-woman-to-receive-a-phd-from-a-university-in-england Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:49:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: muinghan http://www.nfowis.org/first/who-was-the-first-woman-to-receive-a-phd-from-a-university-in-england/comment-page-1#comment-4799 muinghan Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:56:59 +0000 http://www.nfowis.org/first/who-was-the-first-woman-to-receive-a-phd-from-a-university-in-england#comment-4799 I cannot locate the first female to recieve a Phd in the UK, only a MD. I am wondering if it is because the English didn't use the term Doctor for a Phd, at least a female one. As you can see from the woman below who gained her Phd in Italy in the 1600's, I'd venture to say it was around the mid-1880's, and quite possibly before that. Winifred Edgerton, the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, Columbia University, 1886 . Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) first woman physician (doctor), founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857, founded Women’s Medical College in 1867 Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684), Italian mathematician and the first female PhD<br><b>References : </b><br> I cannot locate the first female to recieve a Phd in the UK, only a MD.
I am wondering if it is because the English didn’t use the term Doctor for a Phd, at least a female one.
As you can see from the woman below who gained her Phd in Italy in the 1600’s, I’d venture to say it was around the mid-1880’s, and quite possibly before that.

Winifred Edgerton, the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, Columbia University, 1886 .

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 – 1910) first woman physician (doctor), founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1857, founded Women’s Medical College in 1867

Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684), Italian mathematician and the first female PhD
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