Women in medicine
Across
- 4. mapped the prefontal cortext and shed light on such crucial functions as cognition, planning, and working memory.
- 5. the first woman accepted into the New York Academy of Medicine
- 6. supervised the development of azidothymidine, an AIDS treatment that prevents pregnant women from spreading the disease to their child
- 9. the first-ever American woman to be awarded a medical degree
- 11. pioneered research in radioactivity, contributing to the eventual use of radiation therapy to treat cancer
- 12. Considered to be the world's first gynocologist
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- 1. the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree
- 2. world-renowned cardiologist who was among the first physicians to focus on coronary heart disease in women, and to examine the differentiation of risk factors and symptoms in women and men
- 3. Civil war physician for the union, the only woman to recieve the medal of honor
- 7. the first Native American woman in the United States to earn a medical degree.
- 8. the first U.S. woman to win a Nobel Prize in science
- 10. Columbia’s first female professor in 1949