Rachel Lloyd was an American chemist who studied the chemistry and agriculture of sugar beets. She studied at the Harvard Summer School and earned her doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1886. She was the first American woman to earn a doctorate of chemistry and the first woman to publish work in a major chemistry journal.
- Occupation
- chemist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 26, 1839
- Died
- March 7, 1900
