"Women are in many respects superior to men, since generally speaking, they have more patience and often more taste and discrimination in arranging collections and more deftness in manipulating materials. How true this is!"
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Mignon Talbot
(August 16, 1869 – July 18, 1950) was an American paleontologist, noteworthy as the first woman to discover and name a non-bird dinosaur. She became in 1904 the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in geology from Yale University and became in 1909 the first woman to be elected a member of the .
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