🔬Dr. May Edward Chinn spent her career researching cancer, helping to develop the Pap smear and advocating for early detection of cancer. May was the first African-American woman to graduate…
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#TBT honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915)
#TBT honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915) 🏥🔬 Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman to become a doctor in the United States. Susan was born…
#TBT honoring Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919-2004)
#TBT honoring Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919-2004) 👩🏾⚕️🔬 Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first African American female surgeon in the South, the first single woman in Tennessee allowed to…
#TBT honoring Mary Coston (1826 – 1904)
#TBT honoring Mary Coston (1826 – 1904) 🎇🔬🛠 Martha Coston was an inventor who had an impact on the Civil War with her invention of the Coston Night Signals. Martha met…
#tbt honoring Lizzie Magie
#tbt honoring Lizzie Magie 🎲🛠 Lizzie Magie was the original inventor of Monopoly, though her creation, Landlord’s Game, was meant to serve as a protest of the monopolistic attitudes. Lizzie was…
#tbt honoring Norma Sklarek (1926 – 2012)
#tbt honoring Norma Sklarek (1926 – 2012) 🏛📐📏🛠 Norma Sklarek was the first African-American woman to be a licensed architect in the United States. Norma was also the first black…
#tbt honoring Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924 – 2017)
#tbt honoring Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924 – 2017) 🔬 Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb was a biologist and educator who fought for the rights of women and minorities in science. In…
#tbt honoring Bessie Blount Griffin (1914 – 2009)
#tbt honoring Bessie Blount Griffin (1914 – 2009) 🔬 Bessie Blount is remembered for her groundbreaking work in assistive technologies and forensic science, as well as being a role model for…
#tbt honoring Marie M. Daly (1921 – 2003)
#tbt honoring Marie M. Daly (1921 – 2003) 🔬 Marie Daly was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. Marie’s groundbreaking work led to…
#TBT honoring Dame Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)
#TBT honoring Dame Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) 🏛🛠 Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect and the first woman to be award the Pritzker Architecture Prize. After earning a bachelor’s degree in…
#TBT – Maud Menten (1879-1960)
#TBT honoring Maud Menten (1879-1960) 🔬 Maud Menten was a Canadian physician-scientist whose name is associated with the famous Michaelis-Menten equation used in biochemistry. As a biochemical and medical researcher, Maud…
#TBT honoring Maud Menten (1879-1960)
#TBT honoring Maud Menten (1879-1960) 🔬 Maud Menten was a Canadian physician-scientist whose name is associated with the famous Michaelis-Menten equation used in biochemistry. As a biochemical and medical researcher, Maud…