Alice Belle Northrop

American botanist and botanical collector (1864-1922).

Alice Rich Northrop (March 6, 1864 – May 6, 1922) was an American botanist. She was known for expanding access to nature for New York City's public school children. Northrop traveled extensively to regions of the world where women did not usually venture, including Central America, the Caribbean, and Western North America. On a trip to the Bahamas, she and her husband, John Isaiah Northrop, discovered 18 new species. Her husband was killed in a laboratory accident in 1891, a week before their son was born. Northrop became a professor of botany at Hunter College. Many of her students went on to