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Anandibai Joshi
The first female Indian physician. She decided she would learn medicine after losing her child at 14 after a lack of medical care. She earned her degree at the age of 19 but wasn't able to practice medicine because she sadly passed away at the age of 21. -
Keiko Okami
She is the first woman from Japan to earn a degree in Western medicine from a western university. she moved back to Japan after she graduated and opened her own practice out of her house where she worked in gynecology and treated patients with tuberculosis. -
Sabat Islambouli
One of the first Kurdish female physicians from Syria. She earned her medical degree from the women medical college of Pennsylvania in 1890. -
Lilian Alexander
Lillian was one of the first 5 women to attend the University of Melbourne for medicine. She petitioned the university in 1887 and graduated with her bachelor of medicine in 1893. She completed her residency in the Royal women's hospital in Carlton. -
Marie Curie
Marie and her husband discovered polonium and radium. These elements would lead to X-Ray technology and founded radiation technology for treating cancer. Marie would go on to win a Nobel prize for Physics and another in Chemistry becoming the only woman to be honored twice. -
Gerty Cori
Gerty Cori is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology. Gerty and her husband's work led to knowing that an enzyme deficiency could be responsible for metabolism disorders. -
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin is most known for discovered the double helix structure of DNA. She also studied the structure of RNA viruses and Polio. -
Henrietta Lacks
She unknowingly donated cells when a doctor took a biopsy of her cervical tumor and anonymously submitted it for testing. Her cells were the first and for a long time only human cells that could reproduce indefinitely. Her cells have helped in the creation of the HIV and Polio vaccines along with cancer research and IVF treatments. -
Rosalyn Yalow
Rosalyn created the radioimmunoassays technique. This is used to measure the peptide hormones in blood. This would be used to scan donated blood for any infectious diseases. She is the co-winner of the 1977 Nobel prize for Medicine and physiology for this technique. -
Francoise Barré-Sinoussi
Francoise a Perisian scientist discovered that HIV is the cause of AIDS. This discovery along with the rest of Francoise's research has helped HIV patients live long lives.