Susan Dimock
Dr. Susan Dimock (1847-75) was Resident Physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury from 1872-75.
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Margaret Curtis
National golf champion who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.
Dr Harriet B Jones
Dr. Harriet B. Jones was the first woman licensed as a physician in West Virginia, in 1885.
Dr Helen Cordelia Putnam
Co-founder of the American Child Health Association, organized to promote cleaner schools, better health care for children, and the teaching of health education with the involvement of parents in 1923. While serving as president of the American Academy of Medicine, she organized a conference that resulted in the establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Vera C Rubin
Groundbreaking American astronomer
Albina Zora Marceglia
Italian-Australian clerk for the Bureau of Meteorology for almost three decades
Dr Sarah Solley
Dr. Sarah Dolley was the third woman medical graduate in America, the first woman physician to complete a hospital internship and a co-founder of one of the first general women’s medical societies in the United States, the Practitioners’ Society of Rochester, New York.
Freda Bage
Freda Bage OBE MSc FLS, was lecturer in charge of biology at the University of Queensland from 1913-1946, Principal of the Women’s College 1914-1946 and the first woman elected a Member of Senate 1923-1949.
Dr Toni O’Neill
Australian science teacher
Dr Marie E Zakrzewska
In 1862, Dr. Marie Zakrzewska founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children, the first hospital in Boston—and the second hospital in America—to be run by women physicians and surgeons.