enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. This day in history: First twelve women graduate from Harvard ...

    www.aol.com/news/day-history-first-twelve-women...

    On this day in history, the first 12 women graduated from the prestigious Harvard Medical School. The Harvard Medical School listed the graduates' names on their website: First female graduates ...

  3. List of African-American women in medicine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American...

    She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School and the first black faculty member at Spelman. [24] M. Mary Mahoney was the first African-American to graduate from nursing training, graduating in 1879. [25] Biddy Mason, a slave, worked as a midwife and later set up a day care and a nursery in Los Angeles ...

  4. Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Elizabeth_Zakrzewska

    Marie Elisabeth Zakrzewska (6 September 1829 – 12 May 1902) was a Polish-American physician who made her name as a pioneering female doctor in the United States. [1] As a Berlin native, she found great interest in medicine after assisting her mother, who worked as a midwife.

  5. Sophia Jex-Blake - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Jex-Blake

    Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. [1] She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869.

  6. Elizabeth Blackwell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell

    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]

  7. Dorothy Lavinia Brown - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Lavinia_Brown

    After losing in her run for a seat in the Tennessee Senate, Brown served on the Joint Committee on Opportunities for Women in Medicine, sponsored by the American Medical Association. Along with support women in medicine, Brown also had a major influence in the fight for the rights of people of color, and was a lifelong member of the National ...

  8. AOL

    search.aol.com

    The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.

  9. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_and...

    The planar structure of benzene, an important cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, was determined by Kathleen Lonsdale using X-ray crystallography. The nature of the chemical bonds had been a mystery for many years. Alongside Marjory Stephenson, Kathleen Lonsdale was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society.