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Dr Alice Bunker Stockham

Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.

Dr Isabel Morgan

American virologist at Johns Hopkins University who was key in developing an experimental vaccine that shielded monkeys from polio.

Isabella Karle

American chemist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide when she worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Justine Siegemund

Silesian midwife who wrote “The Court Midwife,” the first German medical text authored by a woman, in 1690

Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.

Katharine Dexter McCormick

Trailblazing U.S. suffragist, philanthropist, and visionary. Her groundbreaking contributions paved the way for the development of the first birth control pill.

Dr Gerty Cori

Czech-American biochemist who, in 1947, became the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby

American microbiologist whose research significantly contributed to the development of antibiotics, particularly in turning penicillin from a laboratory experiment into a widely manufactured drug during World War II.