Dr Daphne Jackson
Nuclear engineer and founder of the UK’s returner fellowships programme.
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Mary Parsons
English blacksmith, photographer and ancestor of the founders of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Kathryn Peddrew
Kathryn Peddrew spent over 40 years working for the NACA/NASA, mainly working in balance in the Instrument Research Division.
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Jessie Garnett
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
Lucretia Crocker
As the first woman supervisor of the Boston Public Schools, Lucretia Crocker pioneered the discovery method of teaching mathematics and the natural sciences during her decade-long tenure, which began with her appointment in 1876.
Dr Lucy Ellen Sewall
Surgeon, and Resident Physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury from 1872-75.
Frances Slanger
The first American nurse in the European Theater to be killed in combat during World War II.
Frances Stern
One of the first nutritionists in the United States.
Dr Lillian Heath Nelson
In 1893, Dr. Lillian Heath became the first woman to practice medicine in Wyoming and one of the first women to practice medicine west of the Mississippi River.