Dr Hannah E Myers Longshore
When Dr. Hannah Myers Longshore began a private practice in Philadelphia, in 1853, she was the city’s first woman doctor.
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Dr Mary Dixon Jones
In 1888, Dr. Mary Dixon Jones was the first person in America to propose and perform a total hysterectomy for myoma (a tumor of muscle tissue) of the uterus.
Barbara E Plampin
After moving to Dune Acres in 1988, Barbara Plampin had time for her passion of botany, meticulously studying the Dunes’s habitats and becoming a persistent advocate for natural land preservation and an expert botanist in her own right.
Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya
Russian biologist and environmental activist
Dr Marjorie Apthorpe
Geologist who worked for over forty years as a paleontologist in the petroleum industry.
Belinda Morieson
Belinda Morieson was Branch Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation, Victoria Branch (ANF(Vic)) from 1989-2001.
Dixy Lee Ray
Marine biologist, professor at the University of Washington, and director of Seattle’s Pacific Science Center. Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), from 1973 to 1975. First woman elected governor of Washington.
Dr Clara Marshall
In 1882 Dr. Clara Marshall became the first woman on the staff of the Philadelphia Hospital.
Dr Edyth Hull Schoenrich
Dr. Edyth Schoenrich was the first woman to be appointed to the American Board of Preventive Medicine and played a leading role in the development of one of the premier preventive medicine programs in the US at Johns Hopkins.
Dr Benjy Frances Brooks
Dr. Benjy Brooks was the first woman pediatric surgeon in Texas.