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Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952), a chemist and bacteriologist, was a pioneer in the advancement of the preservation of perishable foods during the first half of the 20th century.Mary Engle Penningto...
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Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Mary Pennington grew up in Philadelphia, where she often joined her father, a business executive, in his backyard gardening hobby. A library book on medical chemistry rev...
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Mary Engle Pennington was a bacteriological chemist who revolutionized methods of storing and transporting perishable foods . Denied a B.S. degree in 1895 because she was a woman, Pennington went on t...
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