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  2. Patricia Bath - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. ... Bath coined the term "laser phaco" for the process, ...

  3. 1988 in science - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Bath patents the Laserphaco Probe, a device "for ablating and removing cataract lenses". [10] [11] Technology. TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone ...

  4. List of Howard University people - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Bath: 1968 (Medicine) ophthalmologist; first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger: 1914 prominent Pittsburgh architect of the early 20th century David Blackwell: faculty, not alumnus first African American elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Beth A. Brown ...

  5. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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    Bath, Patricia: 1942–2019 Ophthalmologist: First African-American female physician to receive a patent for a medical invention; inventions relate to cataract surgery and include the Laserphaco Probe, which revolutionized the industry in the 1980s, and an ultrasound technique for treatment [19] [20] [21] Beard, Andrew: 1849–1921

  6. Talk:Ophthalmology - Wikipedia

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    Her "laserphaco" device is certainly not commonly used and there is a surprising lack of information about it in the mainstream ophthalmology sources. It has certainly not transformed modern cataract surgery as some sources suggest, and others are credited with first performing the technique [1] .

  7. Porridge actress Patricia Brake dies aged 79 after ‘long ...

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    Actress Patricia Brake, who starred as Ronnie Barker’s on-screen daughter in sitcom Porridge, has died aged 79 after a “very long battle with cancer”, her agent said. ... Born in Bath, Brake ...

  8. List of Alpha Kappa Alpha members - Wikipedia

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    Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States. This list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors (commonly referred to as AKAs [1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.

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