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Gerty Cori with her husband and fellow-Nobelist, Carl Ferdinand Cori, in 1947. [1]Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957 [2]) was a Bohemian-Austrian and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of ...
Dr. Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954) was an American pathologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States.She used her medical training from the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for research rather than medical practice, and over the course of her career worked on developing vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests for many diseases, including ...
1947: Marie Maynard Daly became the first Black woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry, and went on to perform research that would define how cholesterol clogged arteries, paving the way for a broad understanding that diet affects heart health.
Dame Annie Jean Connor née Macnamara DBE (1 April 1899 – 13 October 1968), known as Jean Macnamara, was an Australian medical doctor and scientist, best known for her contributions to children's health and welfare. She was honoured as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.
American Men and Women of Science is a biographical reference work on leading scientists in the United States and Canada, published as a series of books and online by Gale. [1] The first edition was published in 1906, named American Men of Science; the work broadened its title to include women in 1971. (However, women were listed in it before that.
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Jean Finnegan, Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants; Jane Hall (fl. 2016). health economist; Carolyn Geczy (fl. 2005), medical researcher in immunology; Bronwyn Hemsley (fl. 2008), medical researcher specializing in speech pathology; Camille Goldstone-Henry, Australian businesswoman and ...
In honor of her legacy, numerous institutions, scholarships, and awards have been named after her. For instance, the Rita Levi-Montalcini Foundation was established to support education and research for young women in Africa and Italy, ensuring her impact on science and society continues to inspire future generations.