Part One: A Rural Air Ambulance Service Sprouts Wings
Near the end of the Viet Nam War, I had the good fortune of experiencing military service as a newly minted physician …
Women’s History Month: Osteopathic Pioneer Dr. Viola Frymann
Born in England in 1921, Dr. Viola Frymann became an internationally recognized osteopathic physician and founder of the Osteopathic Center for Children …
Women’s History Month: Medical Pioneer Dr. Helen Taussig
Born in 1898, Dr. Helen Taussig was a physician and researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital when she worked with colleagues Vivien Thomas …
Women’s History Month: Space Pioneer Ellen Ochoa
In 1993, Astronaut Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go into space. Born in Los Angeles in 1958, she was …
Women’s History Month: Medical Pioneer Jane Cooke Wright
Dr. Jane Cooke Wright was a surgeon and cancer researcher who developed the technique of testing the effect of chemotherapy drugs on …
Women’s History Month: Medical Pioneer Gerty Cori
Born in 1896, Gerty Cori was a naturalized American biochemist who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in the …
Women’s History Month: Chemical Pioneer Alice Ball
At the age of 23, Alice Ball, an African American chemist, developed a technique for treating the dreaded disease leprosy. The Ball …
Women’s History Month: Physics Pioneer Chien-Shiung Wu
Known as the “First Lady of Physics” and Queen of Nuclear Research, Chien-Shiung Wu was born in China in 1912 and came …
Women’s History Month: Medical Pioneer Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
Born in 1821 in Bristol, England, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell immigrated to the United States and became the first woman in American to …
Black History Month: Black Inventors Who Helped Shape American Lives
Lonnie Johnson (1949 – ) An engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Mars Observer …