In 1879, scientists at the University of Minnesota asked chemistry student Laura Linton to analyze rock samples that had been collected along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Her research identified a previously unknown mineral, and her professors named it “lintonite” in recognition of her work.
Indigenous Australian nurse, cricketer and hockey player
1800s Canadian nurse, businesswoman, and philanthropist
Agnes Betty Jeffrey was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service when she was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Agnes Mary Lions was one of four founders of the New South Wales College of Nursing (NSWCN) in 1949.
In 1959, Dr. Alice Ettinger became the first chair of radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen, a surgeon, became the first woman physician licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana in 1857.
Dr. Connie Myers Guion was the first woman in the United States to be named professor of clinical medicine in 1946. She founded Cornell Pay Clinic, which greatly improved outpatient care in New York, and devised a new curriculum for training clinicians.