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

Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements.