:Charlotte Fitch Roberts
{{short description|American chemist}}
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Charlotte Fitch Roberts (February 13, 1859 – December 5, 1917) was an American chemist best known for her work on stereochemistry.{{cite book |last1=Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn |last2=Harvey |first2=Joy |author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie |author-link2=Joy Harvey |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135963439 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUCUAgAAQBAJ |accessdate=23 December 2018 |language=en}}
Life
Roberts was born on February 13, 1859, in New York City to Horace Roberts and Mary Roberts (née Hart).U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925
Education and career
Roberts attended Wellesley College in 1880. Wellesley made her a graduate assistant in 1881, an instructor in 1882, and an associate professor in 1886. In 1885 she spent a year at Cambridge University working with Sir James Dewar,{{cite web |title=The pioneers |url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3518-the-pioneers?page=3 |website=yalealumnimagazine.com |accessdate=23 December 2018 |language=en}} a chemist and physicist. In 1896 she published The Development and Present Aspects of Stereochemistry.{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Charlotte F |title=The development and present aspects of stereo-chemistry |publisher=Boston, D.C. Heath & Co |oclc=4921819 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4921819 |accessdate=23 December 2018}} She obtained a PhD from Yale in 1894 and a post at the University of Berlin from 1899 to 1900. She was made a professor and the head of the chemistry department from 1896 to 1917 at Wellesley College.
Awards and professional bodies
Roberts was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a chemistry professorship at Wellesley now bears her name.{{cite web |title=Biographies of Yale's First Women Ph.D.'s {{!}} Women Faculty Forum |url=https://wff.yale.edu/biographies-yales-first-women-phds |website=wff.yale.edu |accessdate=23 December 2018}}
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External links
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Category:Scientists from New York City
Category:American women chemists
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Category:19th-century American chemists
Category:Wellesley College alumni
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Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science