| Charlotte Fitch Roberts | |
| Birth Date: | 13 February 1859 |
| Birth Place: | New York City |
| Death Place: | Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA[1] |
| Education: | Yale |
| Occupation: | Professor of chemistry |
| Nationality: | American |
Charlotte Fitch Roberts (February 13, 1859 – December 5, 1917) was an American chemist best known for her work on stereochemistry.[2]
Roberts was born on February 13, 1859, in New York City to Horace Roberts and Mary Roberts (née Hart).[3]
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,[4] a chemist and physicist. In 1896 she published The Development and Present Aspects of Stereochemistry.[5] 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.
Roberts was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a chemistry professorship at Wellesley now bears her name.[6]