Rachel A. Lloyd

(1839-1900) lived in Lincoln. Chemist, educator, thought to be the first woman to earn a doctorate degree in American chemistry (from University of Zurich in 1886) and one of the first women to become a professional chemist, she was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1887 to 1894, publishing several papers on the synthesis of acrylic acid derivatives and conducting experiments on sugar beets that contributed to the development of the sugar beet industry in the United States. Consult Robert N. Manley, Centennial History of University of Nebraska, Vol 1 (University of Nebraska Press, 1969) and Journal of Chemical Education, Vol 59 (September 1982) 743-744 and Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, October 24, 1982, p. D-2 and American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary (ABC-CLIO, 1994) 215-216.

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