Alice Weld Tallant (July 14, 1875 – May 31, 1958) was an American physician and medical school professor.
When her employment as a professor of obstetrics was terminated at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, it sparked the "Tallant Affair", in which students staged a strike and several colleagues resigned their positions in protest.
[4] During World War I, she went to France as one of the directors of the Smith College Relief Unit,[5][6][7] and later worked with Anne Morgan in the American Committee for Devastated France,[8] treating influenza among war refugees; her service earned her a Croix de Guerre in 1918.
When her reappointment at the medical college was refused without public explanation in 1923,[11] students went on a strike,[12] alumnae presented a petition in support of Tallant, and several of her colleagues, including Ruth Webster Lathrop, resigned in protest.
[4] The papers of the Smith College Relief Unit include materials related to Tallant's World War I experiences.