About Elizabeth Florette Fisher
Lived 1873 – 1941 (aged 67). Elizabeth Florette Fisher was an American geologist and university teacher.
Early life and education Fisher was born on November 26, 1873, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Charles and Sarah Gerrish (Cushing) Fisher.
She graduated from the Boston Girls' High School in 1891, and enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She began teaching at Wellesley College while she was still a student, and accepted a permanent position after graduating from MIT in 1896 with a thesis on "Geographical History of Lake Cochituate".
Career Fisher studied oil wells in Baku in 1897 on a voyage to Russia with the International Geological Congress.
She advanced to associate professor of Geology and Mineralogy in 1906, and to Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in 1908. She was Chairman of Wellesley's Department of Geology between 1908 and 1926.
Fisher became a professor emeritus in 1926 and retired.
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American geologist (1873 - 1941)
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Elizabeth Florette Fisher was born on 26 November 1873 in Boston.
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Elizabeth Florette Fisher died on 25 April 1941 in Los Angeles.
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Elizabeth Florette Fisher was a geologist and university teacher.
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