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Anna
Jane Harrison (December 23,
1912 – August 8, 1998) was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years. She was the
first female President of the American Chemical Society,
and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees. She was nationally known for
her teaching and was active nationally and internationally as a supporter of
women in science. She was born in 1912 in Benton City, Missouri. Her parents,
Albert Harrison and Mary Katherine Jones Harrison, were farmers. Her father
died when she was seven, leaving her mother to manage the family farm and to
care for Harrison and her elder brother. She first became interested in
science while attending high school in Mexico, Missouri. She received her B.A. in 1933 in chemistry,
a B.A. in 1935 in education, a M.A. in 1937 in chemistry, and a Ph.D. in 1940
in physical chemistry, all
from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Her
Ph.D. dissertation focused on reactions involving sodium ketyls.
While working towards her master's degree in chemistry, she taught elementary
school at the one-room country school in Audrain County, Missouri,
where she had attended school as a child. She then taught chemistry at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial
College, the University from 1940 to 1945. In 1942 while on
leave from teaching during World War II, Harrison conducted secret wartime
research at the University of Missouri. In
1944, she conducted research on toxic smoke for the National
Defense Research Committee, the A.J. Griner Co. in Kansas City, Missouri
and Corning Glass Works in Corning, New York. This work was instrumental in the creation
of smoke-detecting field kits for the United States Army. She
received the Frank Forrest Award from the American Ceramic Society for
her research. In 1945, she joined the chemistry department at Mount Holyoke College as
an assistant professor. She came to Holyoke to work with professor and
researcher Emma P. Carr. She became a
full professor in the department in 1950 and served as the chair from 1960 to
1966. She retired from Mount Holyoke College in
1979. After retirement she taught at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Harrison's research focused on the structure of organic compounds and their interaction with light,
particularly in the ultraviolet and far ultraviolet bands. She received a grant from the Petroleum
Research Fund Advisory Board of the American Chemical Society for
"an experimental study of the far ultraviolet absorption selected organic compounds." She served on the National Science Board from
1972 to 1978. In 1978 she became the first female president of the American Chemical Society. She
also served as president of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in 1983.As an educator and researcher,
Harrison worked with many scientific organizations in the United States,
particularly the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of American
Colleges, the Chemical Manufacturers
Association, the Education Commission of the States, the Lunar and Planetary
Institute, the Manufacturing
Chemists' Association, the National Academy of
Sciences, the National
Research Council, the National Science Board,
and the National Science
Foundation. As a representative of these organizations, she traveled
to India for the National Science Foundation in 1971,
to Antarctica in 1974 for the National Science Board,
to Japan, Spain, and Thailand as president of the American Chemical Society in
1978, and to India for the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in 1983.
She wrote articles for Journal of
the American Chemical Society, Chemical & Engineering News, and Encyclopædia Britannica.
She served on the editorial boards of the National
Science Teachers Association's Journal of College Science Teaching
and Chemical & Engineering
News. In 1989 she co-authored a textbook with Mount Holyoke College
colleague Edwin S. Weaver entitled "Chemistry: A Search to
Understand."
She was interested in working
towards increased funding for science education by state and federal agencies
and promoting the cause of women in science.
She died in Holyoke, Massachusetts at
the age of eighty-five from a stroke.
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