Women also gained distinction in postal and problem chess during this period.
Since returning to the faculty, Happer has gained distinction for his work in other fields.
From 1833 to 1837, Lesseps was consul at Cairo, where he gained distinction in combating an outbreak of plague.
Her first affiliation was with the Basel Opera (Switz)., where she quickly gained distinction in works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, from 1983 to 1985.
The form gained distinction in the 17th century, during the Tokugawa period, when the great master Bashō elevated the hokku, as it was then known, to a highly refined and conscious art.
Some women have gained distinction in the professions; some of Pakistan's leading politicians, journalists, and teachers have been women, and a woman has served as prime minister and as speaker of parliament.
Waseda has gained distinction in the fields of literature, political science, and business education and includes schools of political science and economics, law, literature, education, commerce, science and engineering, and social science.
Howard gained distinction for his taxonomic work; he described 47 new genera of parasitic Hymenoptera (the order of insects that includes wasps and ants) and more than 20 species of mosquitoes, accomplishing the latter with the help of Harrison G. Dyar and Frederick Knab.
After long service against the Indians in the West, Chaffee was promoted to the rank of brigadier general (1898) at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, during which he gained distinction at the Battle of El Caney in the Santiago campaign and won the admiration of Theodore Roosevelt.
Several gained distinction as engravers, including John Anderson, Luke Clennell, Charlton Nesbit, William Harvey, Robert Johnson, and his son and later partner Robert Elliot Bewick.
