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.

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