Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a U.S. Air Force flight nurse who died during Operation Babylift, a humanitarian mission to evacuate orphans from Vietnam.
American doctor Mary Putnam Jacobi was not only a trailblazer in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was also a women’s rights activist who conducted extensive, groundbreaking research to produce pivotal medical arguments challenging misconcep
Nobel Prize winning biochemist Gertrude B. Elion paved the way for rational drug design, a strategic approach to developing treatments for conditions originating from bacteria, viruses and other organisms. Along the way, she developed drugs to treat condi
Understanding the basic nature of the scientific discoveries and contributions of each of featured astronomers, along with how and why information was shared publicly.