[1] She was known for expanding access to nature for New York City's public school children.

[2] On a trip to the Bahamas, she and her husband, John Isaiah Northrop, discovered 18 new species.

Northrop labored to increase education about the natural world, including installing terrariums and preserved plants in classrooms across the city.

[4] One lasting legacy of Northrop's life's work is the Alice Rich Northrop Memorial Camp in the Berkshire Mountains, which was established to allow children from the city to spend two weeks at a time on the farm.

[6][7] Her son, John Howard Northrop, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946.