Dr Thelma Estrin
Pioneering Jewish American computer scientist and engineer and a trailblazer in applying computer technology to healthcare and medical research.
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Helen Crooke
New Zealand international relief worker
Hilda Northcroft
New Zealand medical doctor and community leader
Sonja Loveday Davies
New Zealand nurse, labour activist, women’s rights activist, politician and peace campaigner
Jessie Scott
New Zealand medical doctor, medical officer and prisoner of war.
Lois Suckling
New Zealand optician and family planning reformer
Harriott Ritchie
New Zealand hospital matron, servants’ home matron and dressmaker
Alice Anderson
New Zealand district nurse
Vilma Hugonnai
In 1879, Countess Vilma Hugonnai successfully defended her dissertation and was awarded a medical doctorate by the University of Zurich.
Kono Yasui
Japanese biologist and cytologist (scientist who studies cells) Kono Yasui became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science in 1927.