Mary Letitia Caldwell
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1890 – 1972
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Who was Mary Letitia Caldwell?
Mary Letitia Caldwell was an American chemist. Growing up she valued education and strived to achieve. She was an instructor at Western College teaching chemistry. She was known for being unique and descriptive along with being family orientated. Maria was in a wheel chair due to muscular disability. Most of her work centered on amylase, a starch enzyme, most notably finding a method for purifying crystalline porcine pancreatic amylase. She spent sixty years doing this.
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- Born
- Dec 18, 1890
Bogotá - Education
- Columbia University
- Western College for Women
- Died
- Jul 1, 1972
Fishkill
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on July 23, 2013
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