Dr Gwyneth Roberts
British mission doctor
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Kathleen Nowland
Australian nurse awarded the Imperial Service Medal in recognition of her work at Matron, Lady Davidson Repatriation Hospital in 1955
Isabel Thorne
English midwife and one of the Edinburgh Seven
Dr Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall
Scottish physician and one of the Edinburgh Seven
Dr Özlem Türeci
BioNTech co-founder who serves as chief medical officer for the company, which produced the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against COVID-19.
Emily Bovell
Scottish physician and one of the Edinburgh Seven
Judith Dey
Australian pediatrician
Esther Lape
Lesbian journalist who was part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s inner circle
Dr Mary Ethel Florey
Dr. Mary Ethel Florey, ran the first clinical trials of penicillin in 1941 alongside her lab partner and husband Howard Walter Florey. Yet, like so many other wives, she was left out when he won a Nobel in 1945 for the work they had done together
Mary Hunt
Lab assistant Mary Hunt reputedly found the mold that led to penicillium rubens strain NRRL 1951—the “parent” of all strains that would later be used commercially to produce penicillin.