Lucy Weston Pickett

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Lucy Weston Pickett (1904 - 1997) was a Mary Lyon Professor and Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chair in Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College.

She received her B.A. in chemistry from Mount Holyoke in 1925 and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. She taught at Illinois and Goucher College before returning to Mount Holyoke in 1930. She would stay there until she retired in 1968 when a lectureship was created in her name to honor outstanding women scientists.

In 1957 she received the Francis P. Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society.

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