Dr Anna Wessels Williams

The first woman elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association; isolated a strain of the diptheria bacillus that was used to develop an antitoxin for diphtheria.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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