Dr Kate Pelham Newcomb
In 1949, Dr. Newcomb marshaled the community to raise funds for a hospital in rural Wisconsin, to improve the medical care available to all residents.
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Dr Margaret Irving Handy
The first doctor specializing in pediatrics to practice in Delaware
Dr MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was a proud Djaru Elder and the first Indigenous Australian woman to receive a doctorate, in 1989
Dr Myrtelle Canavan
In 1931, Dr. Myrtelle Canavan discovered the condition now known as “Canavan’s disease,” a progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by spongy changes in the brain.
Dr Louise Pearce
Louise Pearce, M.D., a physician and pathologist, was one of the foremost women scientists of the early 20th century. Her research with pathologist Wade Hampton Brown led to a cure for trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping sickness) in 1919.
Karen Silkwood
Silkwood was a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee’s plutonium fuels production plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, and a member of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers’ Union. She was also an activist who was critical of plant safety and her suspicious death remains unsolved.
Madeleine ffrench-Mullen
Irish nationalist and social advocate
Dr Mary Glowrey
Born in 1887, Dr Sr Glowrey was a gifted medical doctor and religious sister who was passionate about the role of women in medicine
Enid Michael
Yosemite National Park Ranger & Naturalist, 1921-1942
Edith Ronne
Antarctic explorer