Dr Margaret Clark
Dr Margaret Clark practiced medicine in remote areas of Western Australia at Lake Grace, often working under difficult conditions.
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Hertha Wambacher
Austrian physicist who jointly discovered “disintegration stars”
Dr Janet Graeme Travell
Janet Graeme Travell was an American physician and medical researcher. She was the first woman to be appointed as the presidential physician, by John F. Kennedy in 1961.
Dr Marietta Blau
Dr. Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist who did pioneering work with the pion, a subatomic particle that is made up of quarks and antiquarks. Even though Dr. Erwin Schrodinger nominated Blau and her colleague Dr. Hertha Wambacher, for the Nobel Prize, the committee instead, awarded the prize to Dr. Cecil Powell for work that utilized Dr. Blau’s discoveries.
Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett
Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett OBE was a New Zealand doctor. She served as the Chief Medical Officer of a medical unit during World War I and was later awarded an O.B.E. for her services in improving the health of women and children.
Kitty O’Brien Joyner
Kitty O’Brien Joyner joined the NACA, the precursor to NASA, in 1939 as an electrical engineer after graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA). She was the first woman to graduate from UVA’s engineering program and the NACA’s first female engineer.
Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist and professor in the areas of language and cognition.