Right from the beginning of human settlement, a lot of Scientist came up with ideas, philosophies, beliefs, experiments, research, redesigning of thoughts, and surveys to bring myths to reality. Woman contributed for science biotechnology, medicine to study different aspects of nature to prosper mankind. These genius minds put a keen interest on every phenomenon right from when they were Students. The zeal, passion, dedication, hard work and the effort they put in their work helped them discover something new about the world we live in.
The world today dwells in the abode of scientific advancement in different sectors of medical science, engineering and technology because of these scientists. The present picture of the world that we see would not have transformed without the contribution of these great personalities. Great philosophers and masterminds that existed in the ancient Greek era to the present day scientists, we’ve seen inexplicable abilities that helped us define our existence and human life.
Their names are engraved in the sands of time for their work in the welfare of mankind with different inventions that has made our modern lives easy. The following list commemorates 07 of the greatest scientists we’ve ever seen who changed the world.
If you know anything about development of vaccines, vaccine technology, you may of heard about pioneers such as Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner or Alexander Fleming. But what about the women who also laid the foundations for modern medicine technology and vaccine development? Meet 06 remarkable women who pushed the frontiers of science and development of vaccines.
1. Dr Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
Developed a diphtheria vaccine
was an American pathologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States. She used her medical training from the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for research rather than medical practice, and over the course of her career worked on developing vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests for many diseases, including diphtheria, rabies, scarlet fever, smallpox, influenza, and meningitis. Notably, a strain of diphtheria-causing bacteria
Dr Anna’s isolation of a strain of diphtheria in 1894 was used to develop the first diphtheria antitoxin and later a diphtheria vaccine. Diphtheria is now completely preventable, and children around the world are protected from it through the combined diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccines.
2. Dr Ruth Bishop
Led a team that isolated rotavirus and helped discover the vaccine.
Bishop was born in Dandenong, Victoria, and grew up in Frankston where her father was principal of Frankston High School.
In 1973, Bishop led a team that discovered rotavirus, a major cause of severe diarrhoea in children. The discovery, which Bishop attributes to a “mixture of calculated research and serendipity”’ has had an enormous impact, kick-starting a successful 30-year hunt for a vaccine. Today, the vaccines are slowly reaching children in low-income countries, but rotavirus still accounts for an estimated 200,000 deaths worldwide every year.
3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Introduced smallpox inoculation
For a long time, smallpox was greatly feared, as one in three of those who contracted the disease died, and those who survived were often badly disfigured. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu discovered the Ottoman Empire concept of variolation during her stay in Istanbul in 1716-1718,
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu defied convention by introducing smallpox inoculation into Western medicine. While visiting the Ottoman Empire, she learnt about Turkish customs and witnessed inoculations against smallpox. Lady Mary wanted to spare her children suffering the disease, so in 1718 she had her four-year-old son, Edward, inoculated. On her return to London, she promoted the procedure, despite resistance from the medical establishment.
4. Dr Anne Szarewski
Breakthrough led to the prevention of many cervical cancers.
In the 1990s, Szarewski and her colleagues showed that human papillomavirus (HPV) was linked to cervical cancer. It was a breakthrough that, over the following ten years, allowed a vaccine to be developed to prevent HPV and with it the majority of cervical cancers. The vaccines are now becoming available around the world, preventing suffering and death, and even offering up the possibility that cervical cancer could be eliminated.
5. Drs Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering
Developed whooping cough vaccine
Pearl Louella Kendrick (August 24, 1890 – October 8, 1980) was an Americanbacteriologist. Kendrick is known for co-developing the first vaccine with Grace Eldering and Loney Gordon for whooping cough. She also contributed to the promotion of international vaccine standards.Working with a limited budget, Eldering and Kendrick researched whooping cough (pertussis). They tested the vaccine on themselves first, before running a successful clinical trial. This resulted in the first vaccine being introduced in America in the 1940’s. They then combined it with two other vaccines (diphtheria and tetanus) into a single shot – known today as the DTP vaccine.
6. Dr Margaret Pittman
Her work lead to HIB vaccine: helps prevent meningitis & pneumonia.
Dr. Margaret Jane Pittman (1901–1995) was a pioneering bacteriologist whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on typhoid, cholera, and pertussis (whooping cough) helped generate the development of vaccinations against these diseases as well as others
A pioneering bacteriologist, Pittman’s research helped the development of vaccines against typhoid, cholera and whooping cough (working with Kendrick & Eldering to strengthen their vaccine). She also discovered six types of Haemophilus-influenzae, one of which (Hib) was linked to serious infections including often-fatal meningitis in young children. Her work led to the development of vaccines against Hib.
7. Dr Isabel Morgan
Early and important player in the race to find a polio vaccine.
Isabel Merrick Morgan (also Morgan Mountain) (20 August 1911 – 18 August 1996) was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University who prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against polio in a research team with David Bodian and Howard A. Howe. She was the daughter of Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Vaughan Sampson.
Throughout the 1940s Morgan worked with a team in the USA to understand polio viruses. They were the first to prove that an inactive or “killed” virus could produce immunity in monkeys, overturning the previous belief that only live viruses could create polio immunity. Her work fed directly into the development of Jonas Salk’s vaccine against polio in 1955. Polio has now almost been eradicated, with cases down by more than 99% since 1988.
referring to the woman scientists on this list as “influential,” this article attempts to gauge their influence on medicine, science, biotechnology, Technology, vaccines development as such. In other words, the woman scientists listed here are influential because of the ground breaking scientific work they have done and its impact on the world.
Some woman scientists are enormously influential as popularizers or culture critics or public intellectuals. The woman scientists on this list, however, are here because of their preeminence as scientists doing science. The woman scientists described here are all creative and brilliant. Many of them are also unusual and interesting---colorful personalities that it would be a pleasure to know!
The world today dwells in the abode of scientific advancement in different sectors of medical science, engineering and technology because of these scientists. The present picture of the world that we see would not have transformed without the contribution of these great personalities. Great philosophers and masterminds that existed in the ancient Greek era to the present day scientists, we’ve seen inexplicable abilities that helped us define our existence and human life.
Their names are engraved in the sands of time for their work in the welfare of mankind with different inventions that has made our modern lives easy. The following list commemorates 07 of the greatest scientists we’ve ever seen who changed the world.
If you know anything about development of vaccines, vaccine technology, you may of heard about pioneers such as Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner or Alexander Fleming. But what about the women who also laid the foundations for modern medicine technology and vaccine development? Meet 06 remarkable women who pushed the frontiers of science and development of vaccines.
1. Dr Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
Developed a diphtheria vaccine
was an American pathologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States. She used her medical training from the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for research rather than medical practice, and over the course of her career worked on developing vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests for many diseases, including diphtheria, rabies, scarlet fever, smallpox, influenza, and meningitis. Notably, a strain of diphtheria-causing bacteria
Dr Anna’s isolation of a strain of diphtheria in 1894 was used to develop the first diphtheria antitoxin and later a diphtheria vaccine. Diphtheria is now completely preventable, and children around the world are protected from it through the combined diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccines.
2. Dr Ruth Bishop
Led a team that isolated rotavirus and helped discover the vaccine.
Bishop was born in Dandenong, Victoria, and grew up in Frankston where her father was principal of Frankston High School.
In 1973, Bishop led a team that discovered rotavirus, a major cause of severe diarrhoea in children. The discovery, which Bishop attributes to a “mixture of calculated research and serendipity”’ has had an enormous impact, kick-starting a successful 30-year hunt for a vaccine. Today, the vaccines are slowly reaching children in low-income countries, but rotavirus still accounts for an estimated 200,000 deaths worldwide every year.
3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Introduced smallpox inoculation
For a long time, smallpox was greatly feared, as one in three of those who contracted the disease died, and those who survived were often badly disfigured. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu discovered the Ottoman Empire concept of variolation during her stay in Istanbul in 1716-1718,
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu defied convention by introducing smallpox inoculation into Western medicine. While visiting the Ottoman Empire, she learnt about Turkish customs and witnessed inoculations against smallpox. Lady Mary wanted to spare her children suffering the disease, so in 1718 she had her four-year-old son, Edward, inoculated. On her return to London, she promoted the procedure, despite resistance from the medical establishment.
4. Dr Anne Szarewski
Breakthrough led to the prevention of many cervical cancers.
In the 1990s, Szarewski and her colleagues showed that human papillomavirus (HPV) was linked to cervical cancer. It was a breakthrough that, over the following ten years, allowed a vaccine to be developed to prevent HPV and with it the majority of cervical cancers. The vaccines are now becoming available around the world, preventing suffering and death, and even offering up the possibility that cervical cancer could be eliminated.
5. Drs Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering
Developed whooping cough vaccine
Pearl Louella Kendrick (August 24, 1890 – October 8, 1980) was an Americanbacteriologist. Kendrick is known for co-developing the first vaccine with Grace Eldering and Loney Gordon for whooping cough. She also contributed to the promotion of international vaccine standards.Working with a limited budget, Eldering and Kendrick researched whooping cough (pertussis). They tested the vaccine on themselves first, before running a successful clinical trial. This resulted in the first vaccine being introduced in America in the 1940’s. They then combined it with two other vaccines (diphtheria and tetanus) into a single shot – known today as the DTP vaccine.
6. Dr Margaret Pittman
Her work lead to HIB vaccine: helps prevent meningitis & pneumonia.
Dr. Margaret Jane Pittman (1901–1995) was a pioneering bacteriologist whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on typhoid, cholera, and pertussis (whooping cough) helped generate the development of vaccinations against these diseases as well as others
A pioneering bacteriologist, Pittman’s research helped the development of vaccines against typhoid, cholera and whooping cough (working with Kendrick & Eldering to strengthen their vaccine). She also discovered six types of Haemophilus-influenzae, one of which (Hib) was linked to serious infections including often-fatal meningitis in young children. Her work led to the development of vaccines against Hib.
7. Dr Isabel Morgan
Early and important player in the race to find a polio vaccine.
Isabel Merrick Morgan (also Morgan Mountain) (20 August 1911 – 18 August 1996) was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University who prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against polio in a research team with David Bodian and Howard A. Howe. She was the daughter of Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Vaughan Sampson.
Throughout the 1940s Morgan worked with a team in the USA to understand polio viruses. They were the first to prove that an inactive or “killed” virus could produce immunity in monkeys, overturning the previous belief that only live viruses could create polio immunity. Her work fed directly into the development of Jonas Salk’s vaccine against polio in 1955. Polio has now almost been eradicated, with cases down by more than 99% since 1988.
referring to the woman scientists on this list as “influential,” this article attempts to gauge their influence on medicine, science, biotechnology, Technology, vaccines development as such. In other words, the woman scientists listed here are influential because of the ground breaking scientific work they have done and its impact on the world.
Some woman scientists are enormously influential as popularizers or culture critics or public intellectuals. The woman scientists on this list, however, are here because of their preeminence as scientists doing science. The woman scientists described here are all creative and brilliant. Many of them are also unusual and interesting---colorful personalities that it would be a pleasure to know!