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Margaret W. Rossiter (1944-2025) Historian, author. Margaret W. Rossiter was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and died in Salem, Massachusetts. She began teaching at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1986 and retired in 2017.

Full Name

Margaret Walsh Rossiter

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline

1944

Birth

Margaret Walsh Rossiter was born in Malden, Massachusetts, on July 8, 1944.

1975

Literary Work

The Emergence of Agricultural Science, Justus Liebig and the Americans 1840–1880
Yale University Press
0300017219 / 978-0300017212
Nonfiction.

1982

Literary Work

Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940
Johns Hopkins University Press
9780801825095 / 978-0801825095
Nonfiction.

1986-2017

Other Life Event

Tompkins County: Ms. Rossiter began teaching at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1986 and retired in 2017.

1998

Literary Work

Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972” (Volume 2)
Johns Hopkins University Press
0801857112 / 978-0801857119
Nonfiction.

2012

Literary Work

Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World since 1972 (Volume 3)
Johns Hopkins University Press
1421402335 / 978-1421402338
Nonfiction.

2025

Death

Margaret W. Rossiter died in a hospital in Salem, Massachusetts, on August 3, 2025.

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