The 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three men—George Whipple, George Richards Minot, and William P. Murphy—for their research into the use of liver tissue in treatment of pernicious anaemia. Frieda Robscheit-Robbins, who had co-authored twenty-one papers with Whipple (almost his entire body of published work) on the topic, was left out.
One of China’s most famous women doctors, active in the 1400s and 1500s
Italian pharmacist Sabina Baldoncelli completed all the coursework to earn a degree in the subject circa 1807.
Neuroscientist Candace Pert discovered the opiate receptor—key to explaining how endorphins and opioids work chemically in the body—and was the first person to isolate the T cell receptor.
During World War II, Lieutenant Reba Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron who logged more than 500 flight hours and spent months as a POW.
Her Mosher Report remains the only known existing survey of Victorian women’s sexual habits, begun in 1892 and continued for nearly thirty years.
1500s/1600s pharmacist and chemist in Malta, and the first female pharmacist of the Knights Hospitaller
While working at the Bureau of Animal Industry, Evans began investigating the bacteria Bacillus abortus, which was known to cause miscarriages in animals.
Gentile Budrioli was an influential astrologist and herbal healer in 1400s Bologna, renowned for her skills, a close friend of the ruler’s wife, and even briefly a councillor at the Bolognese court.
Joyce Daws worked in thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), 14 June 1975, for her services to medicine.