On 3 May 1897 she became the first New Zealand woman to register as a doctor and subsequently to engage in general medical practice. For the rest of her life, apart from a year’s study overseas, Cruickshank worked in Waimate, where she was made a partner in the practice.
Legendary oceanographer Commander Mary Sears was a member of nine scientific and honorary societies and was a longtime member of the WHOI governing board. Throughout her career, she provided leadership across many oceanographic disciplines and mentored generations of young scientists.
Dr Hung studies night sky brightness.
In 1908, she joined the newly-established U.S. Navy Nurse Corps as one of its first twenty members. She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1911. In 1919, she became the first Navy women to serve at sea.
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology under President Joe Biden.
Agriculture and food scientist and nutritionist who served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics during the Obama-Biden administration, where she oversaw USDA’S Agricultural Research Service, Economic Research Service, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
In 1971, Dr. Audrey Evans developed the Evans Staging System for neuroblastoma and initiated the ‘Advances in Neuroblastoma Research’ conference.
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., became the first African American woman to be appointed dean of an American medical school in 1993.
In 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy became the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health.