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It’s a great time to learn more about the powerful women who came before us: Especially in the field of science.
American engineer and astronaut Mae Jemison works in zero gravity in the center aisle of the Spacelab Japan science module aboard OV-105, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, during NASA's STS-47 mission on Sept. 20, 1992. Jemison was a Mission Specialist on the flight, and became the first Black woman to travel into space.
A close-up of Dr. Virginia Apgar smiling, taken on Jan. 1, 1973. Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar Score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality.
This is an undated photo of Dr. Margaret Mead, 1901-1978, as she holds an artifact from the Pacific Area. Former Russian cosmonaut and lecturer Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova attends a news conference at the Soviet Embassy in London during a tour of England on Oct. 31, 1977. She was the first woman to orbit the Earth in Vostok 6 on June 16-19, in 1963.
Here's a portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell, who lived from 1821 to 1910, the first woman , to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
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