Dr. Charlotte Friend was a virologist and cancer researcher whose research helped to change the way we think about cancer in humans.
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Considered to be the first female ichthyologist in the United States, Rosa Smith Eigenmann published her first scientific paper at the age of 22.
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After her father’s untimely death, Anna Winlock followed in his footsteps at the Harvard Observatory and completed his unfinished work.
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Dr. Helen Taussig helped found the field of pediatric cardiology after a childhood struggle with dyslexia.
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Dr. Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan is a paleobiologist who studies the bone structures of both extinct and living animals.
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Ynes Mexia became a botanist at the age of 55, and on her many worldwide expeditions she gathered thousands of specimens.
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The recipient of Gallaudet University’s 2013 Distinguished Faculty Award, Dr. Caroline M Solomon has a passion for teaching and can’t imagine doing anything else.
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On May 18th, 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space when she traveled to the MIR space station.
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When Dr. Lose earned her degree of veterinary medicine, she was one of three female graduates and the only one to go into large-animal practice, concentrating on equine care.
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As the first to recognize cystic fibrosis as a disease, Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen changed the lives of people with this condition.
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