Nettie A. Farrar Harris worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1881-1885.1 She was the fifth woman computer to work at the HCO, and her work primarily involved using the glass plates to calculate relative magnitudes of stars and measure stellar spectra.
Priscilla Fairfield Bok worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1923 to 1955. Her work focused on the stars and nebulae in the Milky Way galaxy, and she specialized in putting data from observations into mathematical form.
Dr Dagmar Berne was the first woman to study medicine in Australia.
Dr. Cheng is a chemist and energy storage researcher whose work helped create the Electrolyte Genome database, which transformed how scientists identify and select molecules suitable for next-generation battery technologies.
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.
Namahyoke Curtis, known as Namah, was a prominent African American nurse in late-19th-century Washington, D.C. During the Spanish-American War (1898), the Surgeon General assigned her to recruit other Black women to serve as U.S. Army contract nurses.
The first African American woman to attain a general officer rank in American military history, Brig. Gen. Johnson-Brown was appointed in 1979 as chief of the Army Nurse Corps with the rank of brigadier general.
Capt. Ortiz, who grew up in Puerto Rico, served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and was killed by mortar fire in the Green Zone of Baghdad on July 10, 2007. She was the first Army nurse killed in combat since the Vietnam War.
When Vernice Ferguson became the first African American to lead the Veterans Administration (VA) Nursing Service in 1980, she inherited the largest nursing service in the nation, overseeing 60,000 professionals.
American champion of veterans and women in the military