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.
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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.
Dr Teruko Ishizaka
Working with her husband, she co-discovered allergen-specific antibody proteins called immunoglobulin E (or IgE), publishing their findings in 1966
Trinidad Tecson
Philippine revolutionary who joined the revolutionary nationalist army Katipunan in 1895 to fight for her country’s independence from Spanish colonizers.
Mary Seacole
1800s Jamaican nurse and businesswoman
Danièle Aron-Rosa
French-Tunisian ophthalmologist most known for developing the picosecond, ophthalmic Nd:YAG laser for eye surgeries.
Buwei Yang Chao
In 1945, Chinese immigrant Chao Yang Buwei published How to Cook and Eat in Chinese. It introduced both the term and technique now ubiquitous in many American kitchens: stir-fry.
Dr Joan Mary Woodhill
Australian dietician
Lucy Edith Gullett
In 1921 Gullett founded the New South Wales Association of Registered Medical Women. Within a year the Association had raised sufficient funds to establish the outpatient clinic that provided the basis for the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children which opened in 1925.