Dr Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
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Rachel Benton
Paleontologist with the US National Park Service
Dr Agnes D Lattimer
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
Dr Alexa Irene Canady
The first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon.
Dr Alice Bennett
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Anna Wessels Williams
The first woman elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association; isolated a strain of the diptheria bacillus that was used to develop an antitoxin for diphtheria.
Dr Adela S Valdez
The first Hispanic administrator to serve at South Texas Hospital, Harlingen, Texas.
Katherine Stinson
She went to Chicago in late 1912 and became popular aviator Max Lillie’s first female student. Within two months she earned the nation’s 148th pilot’s license, the fourth woman to do so.
Dr Bessica Raiche
On September 16, 1910, Bessica Faith Curtis Medlar Raiche, M.D., having had no training, made a solo flight in an airplane that she and her husband had built at their home in Mineola, NY. The New York Aeronautical Society presented her an award on October 13 to recognize her as “the nation’s first intentional solo by a woman.”
Juana Briones
1800s Mexican-American pioneer, businesswoman, healer, and landowner