 Dr. Rachel Lloyd was the first woman to earn a PhD in chemistry, to become a Professor of Analytic Chemistry, and to be regularly admitted into ACS. Her selection for a faculty position in 1887 at the University of Nebraska was made possible in part because it was a Land Grant institution. She carried out her research in beet sugar agriculture and analysis using some of the earliest funds from the Hatch Act. Prior to all of that, she attended eight years of the Harvard Summer Courses in botany and then chemistry while continually improving her occupations. In about 1875, she met Rachel Bodley, who would become an ACS charter member. Lloyd later became the first regularly admitted female member. At the University of Nebraska, Lloyd inspired both young women and men to become chemists so that the ACS Nebraska local section had more women participants than any other.

Second woman ACS member, Dr. Rachel Lloyd, met first woman ACS member, Rachel Bodley, before either was a member

244th National Meeting (2012)

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