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title: "Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship"
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The Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship for Women was established in 1908 by Emile Berliner in honor of his mother, and first awarded in 1909.  The fellowship was award biennially and provided $1200 to support a woman studying physics, chemistry, or biology in either America or Europe.  The fellowship was open to women holding the degree of doctor of philosophy or otherwise capable of conducting higher research.  The first chair of the awarding committee was Christine Ladd-Franklin, who was also instrumental in the establishment of the fellowship.  In 1911, an increase in funding meant that the fellowship could be offered every year.


== Recipients ==
1909: Caroline M. McGill, zoology
1911–1912: Edna Carter
1912: Gertrude Rand, psychology
1913: Elizabeth Laird, physics
1915: Janet Howell Clark, physiology and biophysics
1916?: Ethel Browne Harvey, zoology
1916–17: Carlotta Maury, geology (confirmed by a letter to Christine Ladd Franklin from H. Ries, in box 18 of the Ladd-Franklin Archives at Columbia University)
1926: Hope Hibbard, biology and zoology
1926–27: Helen R. Downes, medicine (confirmed by the minutes of the annual meeting of the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship Committee, 1926, in box 18 of the Ladd-Franklin Archives at Columbia University)
1928: Sally Hughes-Schrader, zoology
1934: Emma Margaret Dietz, chemistry
1938: Margaret Nast Lewis, physics
1939: Olga Hartman, zoology
1939: Dorothy Davis Locanthi, astronomer
[unknown date]: Carol Jane Anger Rieke, astronomy
[unknown date]: Edna Carter, physics
[unknown date]: Frances Wick, physics


== References ==