Eva Armstrong
Eva Vivian Armstrong (born December 22, 1877 in Key West , Florida , † May 10, 1962 ) was an American historian of science.
Armstrong attended Atlantic City High School and was a secretary, first at the Book Lover's Agency and then at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1909 she became secretary of the board of directors of the Edgar Fahs Smith Faculty of Chemistry and followed him as personal secretary when he retired in 1920. She helped catalog his extensive collection on the history of chemistry (it comprised 13,000 objects). After Smith died in 1928, his widow bequeathed the collection to the University of Pennsylvania (Edgar Fahs Smith Collection) and appointed Eva Armstrong as curator, which she remained until her retirement in 1949. From 1948 to 1953, she was secretary of the journal Chymia on the history of chemistry. She has published in Chymia and the Journal of Chemical Education on the history of chemistry.
In 1958 she received the Dexter Award for the history of chemistry.
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| SURNAME | Armstrong, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Armstrong, Eva Vivian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Key West |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1962 |