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The first woman inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame: Gertrude Belle Elion

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Meet Gertrude Belle Elion, the first woman inducted in the National Inventors Hall of fame. Elion was the daughter of immigrants, graduated college at 19 and went on to pursue a PhD in Chemistry. She struggled to find work during a time when women were refused positions in laboratories. Elion persevered and in 1950, she …

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The original new woman.

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“I am the original new woman…Why, before Lucy Stone, Mrs.Bloomers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony were— before they were, I am.” Mary Edwards Walker, MD was a surgeon, abolitionist, prisoner of war, prohibitionist and a #badass during the 1800s. Walker was the first woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor- awarded for her work in …

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