Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf (1883–1974), Ph.D.

Photo: Rodgers, 1977

Eleanor Bliss Knopf was a geologist. She received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from Bryn Mawr College (1912). She was married to Yale geology faculty member Adolph Knopf and had a desk in his office where she was a valued informal tutor and mentor and carried out research.