Mary Putnam Jacobi

Mary Putnam Jacobi

Mary Putnam Jacobi, of American descent, was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris. She also obtained a doctor’s degree from a university in the United States. It was she who took up the gauntlet thrown by Professor Clark and proved...
Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian, a wonderful representative of the fair sex – a doctor, embryologist and neurologist. She started her scientific work after the war. Apart from the difficulties arising from the very fact of being a woman scientist in those years,...
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow is one of the extraordinary ladies – an American physicist and Nobel Prize winner. She was not afraid of such minor inconveniences as the lack of laboratory space to work with radioisotopes. She got it from the broom closet! Her work...