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Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. [1]
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), American physician [1]: 31 Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), American physician; Marie Boivin (1773–1841), French writer on obstetrics; Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820–1921), American physician, first female physician in the state of Louisiana
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), who was England-born, was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. She obtained her MD in 1849 from Geneva College , New York City. Rebecca Lee Crumpler , (1831–1895) became the first African American female physician in the United States in 1864 upon being awarded her M.D. by ...
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) — first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States; first openly identified woman to receive a medical degree; pioneered the advancement of women in medicine
Born in Bristol, England on 3 February 1821, Elizabeth Blackwell was the third of nine children in the family. Among the many family members, Blackwell had famous relatives, including her brother Henry, a well-known abolitionist and women's rights supporter. In 1832, Blackwell moved to America, specifically settling in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), an immigrant from England, graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York at the head of her class and thus became the first female doctor in America.
Elizabeth Blackwell, class of 1849 In an era when the prevailing conventional wisdom was no woman could withstand the intellectual and emotional rigors of medical education, Elizabeth Blackwell , (1821–1910) applied to and was rejected – or simply ignored – by 29 medical schools before being admitted in 1847 to the Medical Institution of ...
The best-known of Blackwell's siblings was Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. In 1853 she founded the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children, and in 1857, with sister Emily and Maria Zakrzewska , established the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.