Hilda Bynoe
Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe was a distinguished and pioneering Caribbean woman whose multifaceted contributions significantly impacted the region’s development.
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Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
Virdimura di Catania
Virdimura, a Jewish woman from Catania, Italy, became the first “ducturissa” or female doctor.
Florence Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin was the first woman to hold a full professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to lead a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In her retirement years, she transitioned into a role as a public health activist in Colorado.
Dr Elizabeth Blackburn
In 1984, Blackburn and Carol W. Greider jointly discovered telomerase, the enzyme responsible for telomere replenishment. This groundbreaking achievement led to their winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009, with Blackburn making history as the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.
Jennifer Musa
Irish-Pakistani politician, tribal elder and nurse
Edna Pengelly
As one of New Zealand’s most distinguished nurses, she had not only cared for the sick and wounded but contributed to the welfare of the young.
Dr Jane Cooke Wright
Pioneering African American physician and cancer researcher who made significant contributions to chemotherapy.
Agnes Karll
German nurse and a nursing reformer
Dr Martha Ripley
Influential American physician, suffragist, and reformer, particularly known for her work in advancing women’s health care and reproductive rights.