Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship
{{Short description|Former research grant awarded to female scientists}}
The Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship for Women was established in 1908 by Emile Berliner in honor of his mother, and first awarded in 1909. The fellowship was award biennially and provided $1200 to support a woman studying physics, chemistry, or biology in either America or Europe. The fellowship was open to women holding the degree of doctor of philosophy or otherwise capable of conducting higher research. The first chair of the awarding committee was Christine Ladd-Franklin,{{Cite journal |jstor = 1635663|title = The Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship for Women|journal = Science|volume = 28|issue = 728|pages = 832|year = 1908|bibcode = 1908Sci....28Q.832.|doi = 10.1126/science.28.728.832|pmid = 17810786}} who was also instrumental in the establishment of the fellowship.{{cite journal |last1=Elinson |first1=Richard P. |title=Women's Prize: Be More Generous |journal=Nature |date=31 May 2018 |volume=557 |page=637}} In 1911, an increase in funding meant that the fellowship could be offered every year.{{cite journal |last1=Ladd-Franklin |first1=Christine |title=The Sarah Berliner Fellowship |journal=Science |date=24 November 1911 |pages=705–706}}
Recipients
- 1909: Caroline M. McGill, zoology
- 1911–1912: Edna Carter
- 1912: Gertrude Rand, psychology{{Cite book |last=Rossiter |first=Margaret |title=Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |year=1982 |pages=49-50}}
- 1913: Elizabeth Laird, physics
- 1915: Janet Howell Clark, physiology and biophysics{{Cite journal |last=Office of Public Relations, University of Rochester |date=May 1970 |title=Janet Howell Clark (1889–1969) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3572809 |journal=Radiation Research |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=424-425 |JSTOR=3572809}}
- 1916?: Ethel Browne Harvey, zoology{{cite journal |last1=Browne |first1=Ethel Nicholson |title=A comparative study of the chromosomes of six species of notonecta |journal=Journal of Morphology |date=1916 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=119–161 }}
- 1916–17: Carlotta Maury, geology (confirmed by a letter to Christine Ladd Franklin from H. Ries, in box 18 of the Ladd-Franklin Archives at Columbia University)
- 1926: Hope Hibbard, biology and zoology
- 1926–27: Helen R. Downes, medicine (confirmed by the minutes of the annual meeting of the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship Committee, 1926, in box 18 of the Ladd-Franklin Archives at Columbia University)
- 1928: Sally Hughes-Schrader, zoology
- 1934: Emma Margaret Dietz, chemistry{{cite news |title=A.A.U.W. Awards Seven Fellowships |url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=TOW19340227-01.2.36&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ |access-date=2021-12-07 |work=Top O' The World – WCU |issue=13, no. 7 |date=February 27, 1934}}
- 1938: Margaret Nast Lewis, physics{{cite news |title=Dr. Lewis of Physics Dept. Given High AAUW Honor |url=https://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/vassar?a=d&d=miscellany19380212-01.2.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |access-date=2021-12-07 |work=Vassar Miscellany News |issue=XII, no. 3 |date=12 February 1938}}
- 1939: Olga Hartman, zoologyHartman, Olga (September 1983) [1939]. [https://www.scamit.org/newsletters/1983-09.pdf "Travels with Olga"]. SCAMIT Newsletter. Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists. 2 (6): 3.
- 1939: Dorothy Davis Locanthi, astronomer
- [unknown date]: Carol Jane Anger Rieke, astronomy
- [unknown date]: Edna Carter, physics
- [unknown date]: Frances Wick, physics