Innovations

* At age 23, Ball developed a technique to make the chaulmoogra oil injectable and water-soluble. * Her technique involved isolating ester compounds from the fatty acids found in the oils and chemically modifying them, producing a substance that retained the oil's therapeutic properties and was absorbed by the body when injected. * Ball was unable to publish her revolutionary findings before her untimely death in 1916. * Arthur L. Dean, a chemist and Ball's graduate study advisor, dean of the college, and later president of the university, was privy to details of the process she developed. * After Ball's death, Dean undertook further trials and by 1919, a college chemistry laboratory was producing large quantities of the injectable chaulmoogra extract. * Dean published details of the work and the findings without acknowledging Ball as the originator or crediting her work.

* Corbett helped develop the Moderna COVID vaccine, working at NIAID under Dr. Anthony Fauci. * Her further research focuses on viral diseases including dengue, RSV, & MERS. * First African-American female to head an NIH vaccine development team.

* Dick and her husband successfully isolated hemolytic streptococcus "as the causative agent of scarlet fever." * They later developed the Dick test, a skin test which determined a person's susceptibility to the disease and produced "active immunization by larger doses of toxin and antitoxin for treatment, prevention, and diagnosis."

* Kelsey worked with E.M.K. Geiling to identify what in Elixir Sulfamilamide was killing people. * Resulted in changes to the 1906 Food & Drug Act & instrumental in the formulation of the 1938 Food Drug & Cosmetics Act. * As a reviewer for FDA, Kelsey refused in 1960 to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety. * Looked for a synthetic quinine to cure malaria. * Learned some drugs could pass through the placental barrier.

* Rodopska played a pivotal role in developing the Bulgarian BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. * From 1951, intradermal BCG immunization became mandatory for all newborns in Bulgaria, making the country the first in Europe and second in the world after Japan to implement such a policy. * This led to a sharp decline in tuberculosis incidence, especially in children, and reduced mortality rates. * Bulgarian BCG vaccine was tested in WHO reference laboratories in Geneva, Canada, and the USA, and began distribution on three continents. * Her work influenced production and control methods in countries such as Japan, Austria, the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and others.

* Meade-Tollin’s research includes screening desert plants and fungi for ingredients that could be used in cancer treatment drugs. * She isolates and tests metabolites from desert plants and microorganisms for anti-cancer properties. * At the University of Arizona, she developed a reproducible & physiologically relevant bioassay for angiogenic inhibitors & enhancers suitable for drug discovery screening.

* In 1971 Brodie joined her husband's lab as staff scientist, moving into breast cancer research. They were researching its link with estrogen and an enzyme that produces it, aromatase. * They developed several steroidal aromatase inhibitors, with Brodie focused on 4-OHA. * Following further clinical trials, 4-OHA, named Formestane, was the first aromatase inhibitor used on breast cancer patients and proved to be a significant improvement on tamoxifen, the standard cancer drug used to treat estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in postmenopausal women. * The drug was first marketed in 1994.

* Pinkham was the inventor and marketer of a herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" for menstrual and menopausal problems, which medical experts dismissed as a quack remedy. * It is still on sale today in a modified form. * She further distributed information on menstruation and the "facts of life" and was considered to be a crusader for women's health issues in a day when women were poorly served by the medical establishment. * Pinkham and her "medicinal compound" for feminine disorders became the subject of a bawdy drinking song, "Lily the Pink", of which a sanitized version became a number one hit by The Scaffold in the United Kingdom.

* First African American woman pharmacist in Kentucky, gaining her degree from Meharry Medical College in 1906 and Pharmacy Licensing exams in 1908. * She practiced in pharmacies in several states before establishing her own drugstore in Lexington, Kentucky. * Marble served as Vice President of the National Medical Association, after serving as an officer of the Association's pharmaceutical section.

at 6-years-old the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960; is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell; is now chair of the Ruby Bridges Foundation

created and donated the first outdoor living historical farm (Fosterfields) in New Jersey; donated her farm so future generations could observe early farming techniques; farm is still in operation

In 1982 Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which supports breast cancer awareness and research. The foundation's namesake, Susan Goodman Komen, died of breast cancer in 1980 at the age of 36. Susan Komen's younger sister, Nancy Brinker, believed that Susan's outcome might have been better if patients knew more about cancer and its treatment.

1994, Louise established the Charitable Produce Center of Dallas at the North Texas Food Bank & funded it for the 1st 6 months; was in charge of the design studio at Page Boy Maternity Wear; Founder and President of the Alternative Medicine Research Foundation of Texas; created Common Cents Dallas in 1998, which teaches philanthropy to students of all grade levels in the Dallas Independent School District;

was the head of the Women's Centennial Exposition Committee; after being told there was no space in the main hall for a Women's Exhibition she & her committee took four months to raise more than $31,000 to erect the one-acre Woman’s Pavilion, the first at any world’s fair; her autobiography is titled "A Book of Remembrance"; 1893 as head of the Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania tried to get the city of Philadelphia to call June 14 Flag Day & it was officially enacted as Flag Day in 1937 with President Truman making it a National holiday in 1949*1883 with 27 other women formed The Associate Committee of Women of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (1961 updated its name to The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art);

inspired by Robert Baden-Powell in 1912 established the first Girl Guide troop in the country in Savannah, Georgia & it became Girl Scouts of America in 1915; 1912 released the first American Girl Guides manual, entitled How Girls Can Help Their Country, a slightly amended version of Agnes Baden-Powell's book; 1913 set up the Girl Scouts national headquarters in Washington, D.C.; designed and patented the trefoil badge; formed the Honorary Committee of Girl Scouts and elected her family and friends to the committee; worked on and appeared in The Golden Eaglet, the first Girl Scout movie; after the 1922 convention she began planning Cloudlands, a camping facility in Cloudland, Georgia, designed to train leaders and girls together & it was later renamed Camp Juliette Low;

"inventions included a distortion enlarging easel which created unusual effects on images and the telescopic lighting pole known today by many studio photographers as an ""autopole "" to which lights can be attached at any level. "

used photography to document changes in New York immigrant populations intimate relationships between Victorian women social activities & natural & architectural world of her travels

* Cohn studied chemical reactions within animal cells. * A pioneer in the technique of nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, Cohn transformed the study of enzymes by aiming high-tech instruments at them. * Pioneered the use of isotopic tracers to examine the metabolism of sulfur-containing compounds.

* Carter’s current research focuses on the understanding and design of materials for sustainable energy. * Include conversion of sunlight to electricity, clean and efficient use of biofuels and solid oxide fuel cells, and development of materials for use in fuel-efficient vehicles and fusion reactors * Her early work was to accurately describe molecules at the quantum level * Developed an algorithm for identifying transitional states in clean reactions * Investigated the chemical and mechanical causes and mechanisms of failure in materials such as silicon, germanium, iron and steel, and proposed methods for protecting materials from failure.

is known for her work on low temperature, glass-compatible, high-speed polysilicon coatings for large area electronics, otherwise known as thin-film transistor technology, or TFT; while working at Memorex invented an organic photoconductor-based microfilm for computer data recording & produced magnetic tape and disk coating formulations with improved dispersion of magnetic particles; 1971 began working at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) & invented several novel display devices there, including a stylus-writable electrophoretic display, a phototransistor, and a new material for a low-cost electrophoretic display

constructed the first instrument ever to be able to measure van der Waals clusters ( the van der Waals equation accounts for the non-ideal behavior of gases at the molecular level); co-founded, within Eastman Kodak, the Hispanic Organization for Leadership and Advancement (HOLA);founded a program in Rochester called "Partnership in Education" that provides Hispanic role models in the classroom to teach science and math to limited English proficient students; founder of Latinas Unidas;

* Baer wrote the 1st book of rules for women's basketball 1896 * Had a 38-year career as a physical education teacher & teacher trainer * Introduced the 1st teacher certification course for physical education in the Southern US in 1893 * Started the 1st 4-year degree program in Physical Education in 1907.

*Anderson was pioneer in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy *Known for studies of fluorine-19 & solid rocket propellants * Funded her own research; found it difficult to obtain funding due to her race * Received her physical organic chemistry Ph.D. in 1968 * Coined the term "substituent chemical shift".

at Mt. Holyoke College established a research program studying the ultraviolet spectra of hydrocarbons & established a link between the frequencies of the absorptions & the enthalpy change of combustion of the compound; participated in the International Critical Tables of the International Research Council working with Professor Victor Henri of the Unversity of Zurich; was a worldwide leader in the use of the ultraviolet spectra of organic molecules as a means of investigating their electronic structures; her research studies in the 1930s contributed to the understanding of the carbon-carbon double bond

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* Cole was in the first generation of American medical doctors * In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States * First job was to teach prenatal care and hygiene to women in tenements * Cole practiced medicine for fifty years.

* Loguen Fraser became the first woman authorized to practice medicine in the Dominican Republic * Her practice was restricted to women and children due to her gender * Family income from their drug store was sufficient, she was able to offer free treatment to the poor. * When Sarah Fraser died in 1933, the Dominican Republic declared a nine-day period of national mourning with flags flown at half-mast.

Invented invisible or nonreflective glass used in cameras eye glasses projectors periscopes & spy cameras; improved gas masks during World War I; invented airplane wing deicer; invented color gauge; her research laid the foundation for the field of plasma physics; holds 8 patents

1st scientist to conclude certain gases warmed when exposed to sunlight & rising carbon dioxide levels would change the atmosphere temperature & could effect climate; holds 6 patents

Jackson is an expert on "electromagnetic phenomena" with a research and development career that spans the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum from materials studies using hard x-ray wavelengths, to nonlinear optics and spectroscopy in the near-infrared, to the fielding of radio frequency instrumentation on deep space missions such as Cassini and Mars Observer. She holds 2 patents

Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (2014-2017); head of US NUclear Regulatory Commission (NRC 1995); interests lie in the study of electronic optical magnetic & transport properties of novel semiconductor systems; research on the interaction of electrons on liquid helium films with surface excitations as a polaron problem; also studied medium to large subatomic particles (specifically hadrons) Landau theories of charge density waves in 1- and2-dimensions Tang-Mills guage theories & neutrino reactions; reswearch led to technology for portable fax touch tone phone solar cells fiber optic cables caller ID & call waiting

PecceiûQuinn Symmetry theory with Roberto Peccei-theory implies a corresponding symmetry of nature (related to matter-antimatter symmetry & the possible source of the dark matter that pervades the universe); Hierarchy of interactions in unified gauge theories; contributed to the search for a unified theory for the 3 types of particle interactions (strong electromagnetic & weak) suggesting they could be the result of one action; with Enrico Poggio & Steven Weinberg formulated the quark-hadron duality which showed how physics of quarks can be used to predict certain aspects of the physics of hadrons regardless of the details of the hadron's structure; worked on Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) & it has been adopted by 30 states & the District of Columbia as standard for K-12 science education

During World War II, she developed a solar distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors.[1][2][3] Her goal was to create a version for villagers in poor and arid regions.[4] Telkes, often called by colleagues The Sun Queen,[5][6] is considered one of the founders of solar thermal storage systems. After the war, she became an associate research professor at MIT. In the 1940s she and architect Eleanor Raymond created one of the first solar-heated houses, Dover Sun House, by storing energy each day.[4][7] In 1953 they created a solar oven for people at various latitudes that could be used by children.[7]

studied the role of gender in the culture of science; work focused on the interrelations of environment, technology, and economics, and on weighing the environmental risks and costs of technological growth against the benefits to society; as Associate Director of Continuum Movement Arts taught Continuum; created PHYSIKOS (ran it 2006-2013), a studio dedicated to contemplative and somatic movement art; co-author of "A Moving Inquiry: The Art of Personal Practice" with Beth Pettengill Riley in 2019, a guide to establishing a personal movement practice that can serve as the foundation of daily life, with the body itself as teacher;

made foundational contributions to many emerging areas of science, including the electrical properties of semiconductors, light propagation in optical fibers, and charge motion in quasi-one-dimensional materials; with victor Weisskopf developed the Conwell–Weisskopf formula, which helped underpin the development of the transistor and other semiconductor devices; with William Shockley helped to develop the theory of hot electron transport in germanium; her monograph on high-field transport was influential in the development of semiconductor electronics; made important early contributions on wave propagation in optical fibers; played a crucial role in the emerging field of organic electronic materials and published seminal papers on the theory of the mobility and optical properties of polaronic charge carriers in conjugated polymers and organic semiconductors; Her research was an important part of a substantial effort at Xerox to develop flexible-belt photoreceptors, which became the basis for a highly successful series of products in the 1980s and 1990s;

led the design, construction & operation of Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab & for 25 years it was the most powerful particle collider in the world; 1985 it recorded its 1st proton-antiproton collisions; 1995 it was used to find the top quark; 2000 it was used to find the tau neutrino; 1989 to 1992 was involved in the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas which was subsequently abandoned; after 1992 made significant contributions to the development of high-gradient, superconducting linear accelerators as well as bright and intense electron sources; played a key role in working with scientists at DESY to develop superconducting accelerator technology; led a Fermilab group collaborating with DESY in the 1990s and built the photoinjector for the TESLA Test Facility at the German laboratory; she & her team developed the Rutherford wire, a configuration of 23 strands of wire that had the perfect mechanical form for use in a magnet

proposed the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus (won Nobel for it); co-authored important works on the lattice dynamics of crystals with Max Born; in 1931 theorized the two-photon absorption theory that could not be proven until the invention of the laser now the unit for the two-photon absorption cross section is named the Goeppert Mayer (GM) unit;1935 published an important paper on double beta decay; programmed the Aberdeen Proving Grounds ENIAC to solve criticality problems for a liquid metal cooled reactor using the Monte Carlo method; derived the Bigeleisen-Mayer equation with Jacob Bigeleisen

* Erukhimova uses Tik Tok as a platform to teach physics experiments & make them fun * Uses a range of everyday objects in her experiments, from ping-pong balls and toilet paper to marshmallows, bicycle wheels and hair dryers * On faculty at Texas A & M as Chair for Physics Outreach * Awarded for developing and disseminating innovative physics education programs for college students and the public *Her experiments have radically increased the following of Texas A & M Physics & Astronomy's social media accounts * Her favorite audience to teach is 2nd graders.

Carwell has been recognized for her work with the Department of Energy, where she has received numerous awards. She has also received awards for her work in community leadership.