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Dr Edith Jacobson

German-American physician and psychologist

Nuar Alsadir

Nuar Alsadir, a poet and psychoanalyst, is the author of “Fourth Person Singular,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

Dr Margaret Craighill

In 1943, Dr. Margaret Craighill was the first woman to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army.

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.

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.