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Azathioprine is an Immunosuppressive drug used in rheumatoid arthritis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and in kidney transplants to prevent rejection first synthesized by George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion in 1957 . [3] [4] [5] AZT Flossie Wong-Staal was the first scientist to clone HIV and map its ...
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1] Women's inventions have historically been concentrated in some ...
Pages in category "Women inventors" The following 128 pages are in this category, out of 128 total. ... This page was last edited on 1 October 2023, ...
On International Women’s Day, here’s a look at some of the most important inventions created by women
Rebecca "Becky" Schroeder (born 1962) is an American inventor and one of the youngest females to be granted a U.S. patent at the age of 12. [1] At the age of 10, she conceived the idea of a luminescent backing sheet that would enable writing in the dark. This innovation led to her receiving U.S. Patent 3,832,556 on August 27, 1974. [2]
For one aspect of her study she made use of a document compiled by the US Patent Office in 1888 that was a list of patents obtained by women, covering the years 1790–1888. She discovered that the list was inaccurate, yet the information needed to create an accurate count of women's patents was also not available.
This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...
The most powerful women in the world — as deemed by Forbes — have been revealed. With the release of their female-specific 2024 Power List, the magazine has crowned 100 women the ultimate ...