Dr. Alyson McGregor examines how sex and gender differences impact emergency medical care and the overall health of women and she works on communicating these differences to medical professionals and the public.
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Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal was the first scientist to clone HIV, helping lead to blood tests and better treatments for the virus. She says that her main motivation “is simply the satisfaction of making discoveries, finding things out that no one knew before.”
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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha was one of the key individuals to expose lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan and bring attention to the contamination in the water supply.
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In 1843, photographer and botanist Anna Atkins became the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs.
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Dr. Chung-Pei Ma has helped discover two of the largest black holes found to date and is also a classical violinist that played with the Youth Symphony in Taiwan at age 8 and still enjoys playing as a hobby.
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Dr. Antonia Novello was appointed Surgeon General of the United States in 1990, becoming the first woman and first Hispanic to serve in that role.
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A food scientist with a positive worldwide public health impact, Dr. Virginia Holsinger‘s work on food security issues and dairy product research impacted many lives throughout her 41 year career at the United States Department of Agriculture.
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The recipient of the 2008 Turing Award, Dr. Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor and member of the Programming Methodology group at MIT.
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Isabel Morgan’s work was a critical step in the journey toward a killed-virus polio vaccine.
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Today we want to tell you about aviator turned conservationist Ila Fox Loetscher.
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