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    1. 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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    3. 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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    5. 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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    7. 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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    9. 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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    11. 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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    13. 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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    15. 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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    17. Jeanne Helen Osiecki (b. 1926) began working at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in 1961 where she is shown synthesizing new polymers to be used in space vehicles.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Jeanne Helen Osiecki

      • Date: July 16, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    19. Chemist Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-1971) was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956 for her work in x-ray crystallography; in 1968, she became the first woman elected as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS).

      Women in Science Wednesday: Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale

      • Date: April 23, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    21. Canadian-born physician and biochemist Maud Leonora Menten (1879-1960) made important contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Maud Leonora Menten

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

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    23. Miriam Elizabeth Simpson (1894-1991) attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning the A.B. in chemistry in 1915 and the M.A. in 1916. Simpson went on to earn the first Ph.D. in anatomy conferred in the University of California (1921), and a Ph.D. in medicine from Johns Hopkins University.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Miriam Elizabeth Simpson

      • Date: January 22, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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