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Jean Marian Purdy (25 April 1945 – 16 March 1985) was a British nurse, embryologist and pioneer of fertility treatment. She was responsible with Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe for developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF); Louise Joy Brown, the first "test-tube baby", was born on 25 July 1978, and Purdy was the first to see the embryonic cells dividing.
Miriam Friedman Menkin (8 August 1901 – June 8, 1992), née Miriam Friedman, was an American scientist who was most famous for her in vitro fertilization (IVF) research with John Rock. In February 1944, she became the first person to conceive human life outside of the body. [1]
In one of her research papers on fertility and conception, Barton reports successfully treating over 1,000 women using AID, 600 cases between 1944 and 1954 and another 431 women from 1955 to the end of December 1962. [5] Thousands more women were treated at her clinic for AIH. [6]
Linda Spilker (born 1955), American planetary scientist; Lucy-Ann McFadden (born 1952), astronomer; Maria Zuber (born 1958), American planetary scientist; Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specializing in radio astronomy; Pamela Gay (born 1973), American astronomer; Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects an estimated one in 10 women. Researchers recently found that weight loss interventions may help those with PCOS reduce weight and improve blood sugar ...
The formation of the Kovalevskaia Fund in 1985 and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World in 1993 gave more visibility to previously marginalized women scientists, but even today there is a dearth of information about current and historical women in science in developing countries.
When Eve Arnold joined Magnum in 1951 — four years after the renowned photographic agency was founded — she was its first female photographer. “Magnum was about to open a New York office ...
In 2021, Pope Francis appointed Doudna, and two other women Nobel laureates Donna Strickland and Emmanuelle Charpentier, as members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. [ 107 ] She along with Charpentier was named one of the Time 100 most influential people in 2015, [ 15 ] and she was a runner-up for Time Person of the Year in 2016 alongside ...