Florence Bascom

Florence Bascom (* July 14, 1862 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, † June 18, 1945 ibid ) was an American geologist.

Bascom studied mineral crystals by looking at them under the microscope. We also examined metamorphic rocks, changes by mountains and like mountain rocks erode to sand. At that time when they went to college, it was not easy for women in the U.S., to achieve higher academic degrees. Bascom, however, which could not be discourage. She earned two bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University. She was so in the U.S. the second woman ever to a Ph.D. acquired in geology. Bascom taught from 1895 many years of geology at the Women's College Bryn Mawr. They collected minerals, rocks and fossils for college and taught over the years, hundreds of students.