Dr Sophia Presley
Sophia Presley (1834-1909) was an instructor of surgery, a director of the Camden Women’s club, and was a member of the Camden County Medical Society.
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Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow
Arabella W. Barlow (1824-1864) was a Civil War nurse from Somerville, New Jersey, serving in the Peninsula, Antietam, and Gettysburg campaigns.
Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley
Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley was a midwife who, during the mid-eighteenth century in Virginia, purportedly delivered as many as three thousand babies.
Dr Tracy Caldwell Dyson
Tracy C. Dyson has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, and is a veteran of three space flights. Dr. Dyson has designed, constructed and implemented electronics and hardware for the study of atmospheric gas phase chemistry, and has developed and presented numerous papers on methods of chemical ionization for the spectral interpretation of trace compounds.
Christina Koch
Christina Hammock Koch was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. She served as flight engineer on the International Space Station (ISS) for Expedition 59, 60 and 61. Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalk.
Dr Olivia J Hooker
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, blazed a trail as the first Black woman on active duty in the US Coast Guard.
Dr Constance Stone
Dr Constance Stone was the first woman to be registered as a medical practitioner in Australia.
Clara Louise Maass
Nurse Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901) volunteered to participate in an immunization experiment against yellow fever in Cuba, but succumbed to the disease at the young age of 25.
Elizabeth Coleman White
Elizabeth Coleman White developed the US’s first cultivated blueberry.
Margaret Blackwood
Australian botanist and geneticist, and an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during World War II