Dr. Eleanor Shore initiated the Fiftieth Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine, to promote gender equality in career development and allow junior faculty to balance family life with their professional responsibilities without missing out on opportunities for advancement and promotion.
Dr. Elizabeth D. Hay was the first woman to be elected president of the Society for Developmental Biology, to be made full professor in a Harvard Medical School preclinical department and to be elected president of the American Society of Cell Biology.
1800s British-American abortion provider
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president
Georgina King was self-taught and developed an interest in geology. However, she propounded eccentric theories and was frustrated by lack of recognition by scientists and learned societies. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds almost 300 of King’s specimens.
Dr. Martha May Eliot was the first woman to be elected president of the American Public Health Association and the first woman to be awarded the American Public Health Association’s Sedgewick Memorial Medal.
1957: Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.
Viennese-born psychoanalyst Edith Buxbaum wrote Your Child Makes Sense (1949) and Troubled Children in a Troubled World (1970).
Ann Henderson-Sellers is an earth systems scientist widely respected for her research into the description and prediction of the influence of land cover and land-use change on climate and human systems.
Working in the field of nuclear physics, Toms put everything into career and the work that she did had value, most especially for the women who followed her.