Guirandana de Lay
Executed in 1461, Spanish healer Guirandana de Lay was a typical example of a witch hunt victim, who were often used as scapegoats for illness and other woes.
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Marian Koshland
Immunologist Marian Koshland is known for discovering that the differences in antibodies’ amino acid make-up explain how efficient and effective they are at fighting off foreign elements.
Dr Marthe Gautier
Marthe Gautier was studying Down Syndrome when she noticed an extra chromosome while studying cell samples from a patient. Due to her poorly equipped lab—she had only a low-power microscope—she couldn’t identify or photograph the chromosome.
Dr Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi won a Nobel Prize for her role in discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Dr Frieda Robscheit-Robbins
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.
Tan Yunxian
One of China’s most famous women doctors, active in the 1400s and 1500s
Sabina Baldoncelli
Italian pharmacist Sabina Baldoncelli completed all the coursework to earn a degree in the subject circa 1807.
Candace Pert
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.
Reba Whittle
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.
Dr Clelia Duel Mosher
Her Mosher Report remains the only known existing survey of Victorian women’s sexual habits, begun in 1892 and continued for nearly thirty years.