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  1. Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953), anatomist and pioneering medical researcher, was the first woman to hold a full professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Florence Rena Sabin

    • Date: March 19, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  3. Gerharda Wilbrink (1875-1962) was a Dutch plant pathologist who specialized on sugar cane diseases in Java. Wilbrink published on this topic during 1920s and devised a well-known medium for growing bacteria called

    Women in Science Wednesday: Gerharda Wilbrink

    • Date: January 29, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  5. Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968) was a distinguished British botanist who discovered that

    Women in Science Wednesday: Kathleen Beyer Blackburn

    • Date: April 30, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  7. Biochemist Lina Solomonova Stern (1878-1968), professor of physiology at the University of Moscow, did pioneering work on the blood-brain barrier.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Lina Solomonova Stern

    • Date: August 20, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  9. Geneticist and cytologist Margaret Mann Lesley (1891-1988) published extensively with her husband James W. Lesley (1888-1982) on tomato breeding and genetics. She was known for her cytological analyses.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Margaret Mann Lesley

    • Date: June 18, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  11. Eugene H. Payne and Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011). Payne was the first person to use chloromycetin on humans and Rebstock, the leader of the Parke-Davis Research Laboratories team, was the first person to synthesize the drug.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Mildred Catherine Rebstock

    • Date: September 24, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  13. Penelope Jo Parsons [Maddy] won the Science Talent Search with her exhibit,

    Women in Science Wednesday: Penelope Jo Parsons

    • Date: January 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  15. Brazilian aviation expert and pilot Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1902-1999) was the first person to obtain a U.S. commercial pilot's license with additional ratings as instructor. She had made her first solo flight in 1922, at the age of 18 and was the first Brazilian woman to make a cross-country flight.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Anesia Pinheiro Machado

    • Date: June 25, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  17. First hired by Harvard College Observatory to carry out astronomical calculations, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) eventually became one of the foremost American astronomers, known especially for her work on variable stars.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Annie Jump Cannon

    • Date: June 4, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  19. Marine biologist Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) served as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1973-1975, and as governor of Washington State, 1977-1981.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dixy Lee Ray

    • Date: April 2, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  21. Biologist Gertrude Van Wagenen (1893-1978) served on the faculty at Yale and did pioneering studies of rhesus monkeys.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Gertrude Van Wagenen

    • Date: September 3, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  23. Jane Stafford (1899-1991) joined Science Service as medical editor and writer in 1927, where she covered some of the most important discoveries and people in medical research.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Jane Stafford

    • Date: February 5, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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