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Dr Teruko Ishizaka

Working with her husband, she co-discovered allergen-specific antibody proteins called immunoglobulin E (or IgE), publishing their findings in 1966

Trinidad Tecson

Philippine revolutionary who joined the revolutionary nationalist army Katipunan in 1895 to fight for her country’s independence from Spanish colonizers.

Johanna Döbereiner

Czech botanist Johanna Döbereiner moved to Brazil in 1951, where she pioneered the study of how plants and microbes interact, such as how certain bacteria can promote plant growth.

Mary Seacole

1800s Jamaican nurse and businesswoman

Buwei Yang Chao

In 1945, Chinese immigrant Chao Yang Buwei published How to Cook and Eat in Chinese. It introduced both the term and technique now ubiquitous in many American kitchens: stir-fry.

Danièle Aron-Rosa

French-Tunisian ophthalmologist most known for developing the picosecond, ophthalmic Nd:YAG laser for eye surgeries.

Edie Windsor was in her 80s when she sued the U.S. government. Her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The following year, Windsor received a $363,000 tax bill—estate taxes that, had the government recognized their marriage, would have been nonexistent.

Birutė Galdikas

German primatologist

Lucy Edith Gullett

In 1921 Gullett founded the New South Wales Association of Registered Medical Women. Within a year the Association had raised sufficient funds to establish the outpatient clinic that provided the basis for the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children which opened in 1925.