Born: 29 December 1867, United States
Died: 10 September 1950
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Philanthropist, zoologist, paleontologist, and heiress Alexander established the University of California Museum of Paleontology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. In the summer of 1921, based on John Muir’s small collection of fossils, Alexander and her partner Louise Kellogg initiated a fossil expedition to Petrified Forest. Their findings would inspire further research partnerships with the University of California in Berkeley.
IW note: Alexander may be one of the earliest LGBTQIA+ paleontologists in the US. Although never open about her sexuality, she spent the last decades of her life living with her close companion Louise Kellogg.