Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.
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Dr Mary Strangman
Irish doctor and suffragist
Ethel Pritchard
New Zealand nurse who served in WWI
Mamie Cadden
Irish midwife and abortionist
Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane “Janni” Nüsslein-Volhard is a prominent German developmental biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, making her the only German woman to achieve this distinction in the field of science.
Flossie Wong-Staal
Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist whose pioneering work reshaped our understanding of HIV/AIDS. She was a trailblazer who made history by successfully cloning HIV and unveiling its genetic intricacies. This monumental achievement marked a significant leap forward in confirming HIV as the root cause of AIDS.
Dr Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is an accomplished American scholar and expert in animal behavior.
Henrietta Lacks
African-American woman whose cancer cells became a major part of medical history.
Kei Okami
The first Japanese woman to earn a Western medicine degree, from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the USA.
Eileen Savell
New Zealand nurse who served overseas during WWI