History of Clinical Research: Women in Clinical Research & the Pharmaceutical Industry Part 3

i haven't mentioned to mention too much about women because there weren't many women who were doing science in the old days but let me mention a few superstars uh who lived from the 1800s on florence nightingale is the first she was a great mathematician and her parents really told her not to go into math

because they didn't think it was a ladylike thing to do and so they told her she had to go into nursing but she was this mathematician and she used this uh skill in the crimean war she showed that overcrowded hospitals she worked out the mathematics for how crowding would lead to transmission of

infection and she said you had a good ventilation and spread the beds apart and doing that she reduced the intra-hospital infection rate dramatically marie curie is has an amazing story she discovered radium she realized that radioactivity is an intrinsic atomic property of matter you may not know she pioneered a mobile x-ray unit for the french army in world

war one and founded a radiologic school for nurses with her husband she was awarded half the nobel prize in physics in 1903 for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by uh becquerel who was awarded the other half of the prize then she went won a second nobel prize in 1911. her husband

had died uh for her work in radioactivity and her daughter irene jolie at curie was also awarded a nobel prize for work with her husband on the discovery of artificial radioactivity so this is the first example of a parent child nobel laureates whatever that's worth and then rosalind yellow who was a a

medical physicist collaborated with solomon beerson and invented the radio immune assay and burst burson died so he didn't win the nobel prize but roslyn yallow did in 1977. she was the first female and first nuclear physicist to win the alaska award as well and janna rowley who died just a few years ago was an american geneticist in