Elizabeth Monroe Boggs

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Elizabeth Monroe Boggs , née Monroe (born April 5, 1913 in Cleveland , Ohio - † January 27, 1996 ) was an American chemist and activist for mentally disabled children.

She studied at Concord Academy and Bryn Mawr College (including mathematics), where she graduated summa cum laude in 1935 . In 1939 she received her PhD in theoretical chemistry from the University of Cambridge with John Lennard-Jones . She then went to the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at Cornell University with John G. Kirkwood . During World War II, she worked in explosives research in Los Alamos .

She first published under the name Elizabeth Monroe. In 1941 she married Fitzhugh Boggs (1911–1971) and then published under EM Boggs. With Kirkwood she published some fundamental works on physical chemistry and statistical mechanics.

After the birth of her son David in 1945, who was mentally disabled after an infection, she began to get involved in the interests of people with developmental disorders. She was the founder and 1958 president of the National Association for Retarded Children (now The ARC of the United States ) and was on related government committees during the presidency of John F. Kennedy . She also worked with the UN as the lead author of its statement on the rights of the mentally disabled. With Justin Dart she was the head of a task force on these issues of the US Congress.

She has received numerous honors including the Kennedy International Award for Leadership, the Distinguished Public Service Award from the US Department of Health and the N. Neal Pike Prize.

She was an honorary member of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was an honorary doctor of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey (where the Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities was named in her honor in 1997 ), Kean College, and Ohio State University .

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  1. ↑ Kirkwood, Monroe, On the theory of fusion , J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 8, 1940, p. 845
  2. ↑ EM Boggs, Kirkwood, The radial distribution function in liquids , J. Chemical Physics, Volume 10, 1942, pp. 394-402.
personal data
SURNAME Boggs, Elizabeth Monroe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monroe, Elizabeth; Boggs, EM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1996