Irena Sendler
Vital member of the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, heading the children’s section of Żegota from October 1943.
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Dorothea Erxleben
Germany’s first female doctor.
Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.
Mamie Cadden
Irish midwife and abortionist
Dr Mary Strangman
Irish doctor and suffragist
Ethel Pritchard
New Zealand nurse who served in WWI
Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane “Janni” Nüsslein-Volhard is a prominent German developmental biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, making her the only German woman to achieve this distinction in the field of science.
Flossie Wong-Staal
Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist whose pioneering work reshaped our understanding of HIV/AIDS. She was a trailblazer who made history by successfully cloning HIV and unveiling its genetic intricacies, a significant leap forward in confirming HIV as the root cause of AIDS.
Dr Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is an accomplished American scholar and expert in animal behavior.
Henrietta Lacks
African-American woman whose cancer cells became a major part of medical history.