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1800s Irish Sister of Mercy, foundress, Crimean war nurse, and teacher
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Lina Stern
Dr. Lina Stern faced the dual barriers of being a woman and being Jewish but nevertheless was able to become a groundbreaking researcher who introduced the scientific community to the barrière hématoencéphalique—the blood-brain barrier.
Dr Helen Hobbs
Dr Helen Hobbs fundamentally changed the way we understand cholesterol, doing work that would save countless people from death and disability related to issues like heart disease and stroke.
Dr Janet Rowley
“Janet Rowley’s work established that cancer is a genetic disease. She demonstrated that mutations in critical genes lead to specific forms of leukemia and lymphoma, and that one can determine the form of cancer present in a patient directly from the genetic changes in the cancer. We are still working from her paradigm.”
Dr June McCarroll
June McCarroll was a doctor in early 1900s Indio, California, a “tiny, tough-talking lady who often strapped on a six-shooter to make house calls.” But for all the good she did as a physician, she saved far more lives by taking up the cause of road safety when she was 40 and semi-retired.
Dr Carmel Harrington
In the U.S., sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, accounts for more than one-third of sudden unexpected infant deaths. Almost three decades after losing her own son, Damien, Dr. Carmel Harrington and her team made a major breakthrough in 2022.
Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
Elizabeth Stern
From the 1920s to the 2000s, the incidence of cervical cancers in the United States dropped by at least 70 percent, thanks in no small part to pathologist Elizabeth Stern.
Beatrice Mintz
Dr. Beatrice Mintz was a groundbreaking cancer researcher and embryologist who helped increase our understanding of mammalian development.
Dr Mona Chalmers Watson
In July 1917, Mona Chalmers Watson was named the first Chief Controller of Britain’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) when it was formed. The thousands of WAACs worked as cooks and waitresses, clerks, communications operators, drivers, and more. She was already noteworthy as a suffragist, physician, and the first woman to receive her MD from the University of Edinburgh.