Katharine Fowler-Billings

Katharine Fowler-Billings was an American geologist and naturalist, born in 1902 and died in 1997, who was among the first women to build a career in field geology in the United States. After earning her doctorate from Bryn Mawr College, she conducted geological mapping in Wyoming, in the British colony of Sierra Leone, and across New Hampshire, where her fieldwork identified three separate periods of mountain uplift in the Laramie Mountains and helped delineate an anorthosite complex in the region. She later served as New Hampshire state geologist and continued fieldwork and teaching for decades despite the professional obstacles facing women geologists of her generation.