Henrietta Lacks
African-American woman whose cancer cells became a major part of medical history.
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Kei Okami
The first Japanese woman to earn a Western medicine degree, from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the USA.
Edith Humphrey
British inorganic chemist, the first British woman to earn a chemistry doctorate and as the chemist who first synthesized a chiral inorganic complex.
Ida Noddack
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astronomer who discovered pulsars
Eileen Savell
New Zealand nurse who served overseas during WWI
Kitty Seville
New Zealand health and welfare worker
Marjorie Chambers
New Zealand nursing pioneer
Dr Elaine Gurr
New Zealand community activist
Dr Rajeshwari Chatterjee
Rajeshwari Chatterjee was the first female engineer from Karnataka and a prominent figure at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, where she served as a distinguished professor and later as the chair of the Electrical Communication Engineering department.