In the U.S., sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, accounts for more than one-third of sudden unexpected infant deaths. Almost three decades after losing her own son, Damien, Dr. Carmel Harrington and her team made a major breakthrough in 2022.
American biochemist who won a Nobel Prize for her work developing CRISPR gene editing
June McCarroll was a doctor in early 1900s Indio, California, a “tiny, tough-talking lady who often strapped on a six-shooter to make house calls.” But for all the good she did as a physician, she saved far more lives by taking up the cause of road safety when she was 40 and semi-retired.
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
Nobel-winning biochemist who co-developed CRISPR gene editing technology
From the 1920s to the 2000s, the incidence of cervical cancers in the United States dropped by at least 70 percent, thanks in no small part to pathologist Elizabeth Stern.
Dr. Beatrice Mintz was a groundbreaking cancer researcher and embryologist who helped increase our understanding of mammalian development.
American astrophysicist
In July 1917, Mona Chalmers Watson was named the first Chief Controller of Britain’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) when it was formed. The thousands of WAACs worked as cooks and waitresses, clerks, communications operators, drivers, and more. She was already noteworthy as a suffragist, physician, and the first woman to receive her MD from the University of Edinburgh.
Discoverer of sex chromosomes