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'''Mary Odile Cahoon''' OSB (1929-2011) was an American Benedictine nun who was among the first women to do research in [[Antarctica]].
'''Mary Odile Cahoon''' OSB (1929-2011) was an American Benedictine [[nun]] who was among the first women to do research in [[Antarctica]].


She had a doctorate in biology, and taught at the [[College of St. Scholastica]].<ref>[http://www.mayonews.ie/?option=com_content&view=article&id=14139:sister-mary-odile-cahoon-minnesota-and-louisburgh&catid=38:obituaries&Itemid=100061 Obituary at the Mayo News]</ref><ref name="RothblumWeinstock1998">{{cite book|author1=Esther D. Rothblum|author2=Jacqueline S. Weinstock|author3=Jessica Morris|title=Women in the Antarctic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=erHbNJ-clY4C&pg=PA31|year=1998|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7890-0247-1|pages=31–39}}</ref>
She had a doctorate in biology, and taught at the [[College of St. Scholastica]].<ref>[http://www.mayonews.ie/?option=com_content&view=article&id=14139:sister-mary-odile-cahoon-minnesota-and-louisburgh&catid=38:obituaries&Itemid=100061 Obituary at the Mayo News]</ref><ref name="RothblumWeinstock1998">{{cite book|author1=Esther D. Rothblum|author2=Jacqueline S. Weinstock|author3=Jessica Morris|title=Women in the Antarctic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=erHbNJ-clY4C&pg=PA31|year=1998|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7890-0247-1|pages=31–39}}</ref>
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Mary Odile Cahoon OSB (1929-2011) was an American Benedictine nun who was among the first women to do research in Antarctica.

She had a doctorate in biology, and taught at the College of St. Scholastica.[1][2]

In 1974, Mary Odile Cahoon and Mary Alice McWhinnie became the first women scientists to overwinter at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, with 128 men.[3]

References

  1. ^ Obituary at the Mayo News
  2. ^ Esther D. Rothblum; Jacqueline S. Weinstock; Jessica Morris (1998). Women in the Antarctic. Psychology Press. pp. 31–39. ISBN 978-0-7890-0247-1.
  3. ^ Cornelia, Dean (1998). "After a Struggle, Women Win A Place 'on the Ice'; In Labs and in the Field, a New Outlook". Retrieved 28 April 2015.