Miriam Friedman Menkin

Born: 1901

Died: 1992

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

Cornell University BS Histology & Comparative Anatomy 1922; Columbia University MS Genetics 1923; Simmons University BA Secretarial Studies

Field of Study: Genetics; Embryology

Institution/Corporation: Harvard Medical School; Free Hospital fot Women (now part of Brigham & Women s Hospital)

Degrees & Memberships: none

Awards: none

Achievements: first person to successfully fertilise a human egg in vitro, co-equal with John Rock, Woodruff says. Not just a technician or a pair of hands, as people have argued, but actually the intellectual person doing the work. Completed all the requirements for a Harvard PhD twice but never received a degree because she could not afford the course fees