Dr Adela S Valdez
The first Hispanic administrator to serve at South Texas Hospital, Harlingen, Texas.
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Dr Bessica Raiche
On September 16, 1910, Bessica Faith Curtis Medlar Raiche, M.D., having had no training, made a solo flight in an airplane that she and her husband had built at their home in Mineola, NY. The New York Aeronautical Society presented her an award on October 13 to recognize her as “the nation’s first intentional solo by a woman.”
Katherine Stinson
She went to Chicago in late 1912 and became popular aviator Max Lillie’s first female student. Within two months she earned the nation’s 148th pilot’s license, the fourth woman to do so.
Juana Briones
1800s Mexican-American pioneer, businesswoman, healer, and landowner
Dr Me-Iung Ting
Dr. Me-Iung Ting worked tirelessly to improve medical care for women, children, and refugees, even when it put her at great personal risk.
Dr Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
1800s British doctor
Dr Marie Equi
Doctor in the American West who provided care to working-class and poor patients, including birth control information and abortions at a time when both were illegal.
Jane Bell
In 1910 she was appointed lady superintendent at the Melbourne Hospital, a position she would occupy until 1934. In 1913 Bell replaced Elizabeth Glover as lady superintendent of the nurses attached to the Third Military District, and was responsible for the selection of nurses to accompany the troops when war broke out in the following year.
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)
Rachel Fuller Brown
Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)