Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008
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Franziska Tiburtius
1800s German physician
Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.
Dr Dorothy Klenke Nash
American neurosurgeon
Dr Irene Ayako Uchida
Dr. Irene Ayako Uchida was a pioneer in Canadian genetics and cytogenetics during the latter half of the 20th century.
Dr Kadambini Ganguly
The first practicing female doctor in South East Asia
Dr Kamala Sohonie
The first Indian woman to receive a PhD in science, she worked to change the lives of millions of people across India with her nutrition research
Lin Lanying
Lin Lanying’s work laid the foundation for the development of microelectronics and optoelectronics in China. She started a new research field and attracted the world’s attention to her research on the space growth of gallium arsenide crystals and their properties.
Dr Fe del Mundo
Filipina pediatrician Fe Villanueva del Mundo established the Philippines’ first pediatric hospital and, over six decades, helped shape the country’s modern healthcare system for children.
Tenho Sihvonen Connable Hindert
She taught computer science for 14 years at Western Michigan University.