Maude Ryder
Maude Ryder worked at the Harvard College Observatory from approximately 1929 until at least 1941.
Category Archives: Science
Continue reading
Naomi Kitay Greenstein
Naomi Kitay Greenstein (c 1910-2002) worked at the Harvard College Observatory from c. 1936-c. 1938 and was listed as a co-author in HCO publications as late as 1954. Her work focused on calculating light curves for variable stars.
Dr Dagmar Berne
Dr Dagmar Berne was the first woman to study medicine in Australia.
Dr Lei Cheng
Dr. Cheng is a chemist and energy storage researcher whose work helped create the Electrolyte Genome database, which transformed how scientists identify and select molecules suitable for next-generation battery technologies.
Dr Lisa I Iezzoni
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.
Brigadier General Hazel W Johnson-Brown
The first African American woman to attain a general officer rank in American military history, Brig. Gen. Johnson-Brown was appointed in 1979 as chief of the Army Nurse Corps with the rank of brigadier general.
Captain María Inés Ortiz
Capt. Ortiz, who grew up in Puerto Rico, served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and was killed by mortar fire in the Green Zone of Baghdad on July 10, 2007. She was the first Army nurse killed in combat since the Vietnam War.
Namahoyke Curtis
Namahyoke Curtis, known as Namah, was a prominent African American nurse in late-19th-century Washington, D.C. During the Spanish-American War (1898), the Surgeon General assigned her to recruit other Black women to serve as U.S. Army contract nurses.
Vernice Ferguson
When Vernice Ferguson became the first African American to lead the Veterans Administration (VA) Nursing Service in 1980, she inherited the largest nursing service in the nation, overseeing 60,000 professionals.
Jessica U Meir
American astronaut