Frances Emily White | |
Birth Date: | 8 June 1832 |
Birth Place: | Andover, New Hampshire |
Death Date: | 29 December 1903 |
Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
Alma Mater: | Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania |
Occupation: | Anatomist and physiologist |
Frances Emily White (8 June 1832[1] – 29 December 1903) was an American anatomist and physiologist.
White was born in Andover, New Hampshire, and educated at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She went on to become a demonstrator in Anatomy and Instructor in Physiology from 1872 to 1876. White was then a Professor of Physiology from 1876 until her death in 1903.[2]
White was one of the first women to lecture before the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, and was the first woman delegate to the International Medical Congress, in 1890.[3] She was also a lifelong advocate for women's education.
She died in Boston of uterine cancer at the age of 71.[4]