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

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was part of a group of groundbreaking astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory in the late 1800s and early 1900s.