Dr Margaret Craighill
In 1943, Dr. Margaret Craighill was the first woman to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army.
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Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum
In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.
Dr Mary Whiton Calkins
In 1905 she served as the first female President of the American Psychological Association and in 1908 was ranked twelfth on a 1908 list of the top 50 psychologists in the country. Calkins also served as President of the American Philosophical Association in 1918.
Dr Olivia J Hooker
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, blazed a trail as the first Black woman on active duty in the US Coast Guard.
Dr Ruth Westheimer
Famed sex therapist
Danuta Gierulanka
Danuta Gierulanka was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and psychologist. She wrote interesting works on mathematical education and on the philosophy of mathematics.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.
Lilli Vincenz
German-American LGBTQIA+ rights activist
Edith Buxbaum
Viennese-born psychoanalyst Edith Buxbaum wrote Your Child Makes Sense (1949) and Troubled Children in a Troubled World (1970).
Dr Claire Weekes
Hazel Weekes was a zoologist noted for her pioneering work on the placentation of viviparous reptiles and its possible relationship to that of mammals.