Dr Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel-winning physicist
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Matilde Hidalgo
Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.
Ruby Hirose
Biochemist whose research propelled the development of a vaccine for infantile paralysis, also known as polio, and advanced treatment for other diseases.
Dr Mazlan Othman
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, pioneering the nation’s entry into space exploration.
Dr Emily Stowe
Suffragist and the first female physician to practice medicine in Canada
Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008
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.