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Dr Bertha De Vriese

Pioneering Belgian physician, the first woman to graduate in medicine from Ghent University.

Dr Ruth Rogan Benerito

American chemist best known for her work on the development of easy-care cotton, a fabric that could resist wrinkles and stains.

African-American chemist Alice Augusta Ball developed the “Ball Method”, the most effective treatment for leprosy of the early 20th century, but her work went unrecognised for many years because her white, male advisor stole her work after her untimely death at age 24.

Mary Merrifield

Mary Philadelphia Merrifield was a self-taught artist, colour researcher, amateur scientist, and writer.

Dr Helen Boyle

Helen Boyle (1869-1957) was Brighton’s first woman GP and transformed the lives of working-class women in the area through her ground-breaking treatment of mental illness.