Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)
Mary Davies Swartz Rose (1874–1941), Ph.D.
Photo: Thomas, 2012
Mary Rose received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1909, studying under Yale faculty member Lafayette B. Mendel in his physiological chemistry lab. In 1910, she married Anton Richard Rose (1877–1948) and was appointed Assistant Professor of Nutrition at Columbia University Teachers College. She was the author of Foundations of Nutrition (Macmillan, 1927) and Laboratory Handbook for Dietetics (Macmillan, 1915). The Nutrition Foundation established the Mary Swartz Rose Fellowship in her honor for graduate study in nutrition or allied fields.