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She was the first woman to hold a position in both societies. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1909 from the University of Columbia and a Doctorate of Laws in 1910 from Smith College. [3] She was also the first woman elected to honorary membership on the British Psychological Association. [10]
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1]
After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician authors in the nineteenth century. [4] In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses. The book has two parts that cover ...
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
While Prosser is frequently referred to as the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Psychology, others believe that Ruth Winifred Howard (1900–1997) was the first. Those who argue that Howard, earning PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1934, is the first African-American woman to earn a PhD, hold the view that a psychologist is ...
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
In 1929, she was elected to the International Committee of Psychology. [4] Washburn was the first woman psychologist and the second woman scientist to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1931. [10] The same year, she served as a United States Delegate to the International Congress of Psychology in Copenhagen. [4]
Ellen Jane Langer (/ ˈ l æ ŋ ər /; born March 25, 1947) is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University; in 1981, she became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. [1] [2] She is widely known as the "mother of mindfulness" [3] and the "mother of positive psychology". [4]