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Mar 17, 1849 Montague, Massachusetts, United States Died on 31 Dec 1934 (aged 85)
American zoologist
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About Cornelia Clapp
- Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 – December 31, 1934) was an American zoologist and academic specializing in marine biology.
- She was born in Montague, Massachusetts, the first daughter and oldest child of two teachers, and was rated as one of the top zoologists in the United States in her lifetime.Clapp attended Syracuse University and the University of Chicago, earning both the first and second Ph.B.
- degrees awarded to women in the United States, in 1889 from Syracuse and 1896 from Chicago.
- Mount Holyoke’s Cornelia Clapp Laboratory, built in 1924 to house the school’s biology classes, was named in her honor.
