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Physician and pathologist, notable for co-discovering a cure for trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping sickness) in 1919. Belgian officials, impressed and grateful for her results, awarded her the Ancient Order of the Crown and elected her a member of the Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine. In 1953, she was called to Brussels to receive the King Leopold II prize. Member of the Rockefeller Institute. Elected to the "Board of Corporators" of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and was president of the school from 1946 to 1951. | Physician and pathologist, notable for co-discovering a cure for trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping sickness) in 1919. Belgian officials, impressed and grateful for her results, awarded her the Ancient Order of the Crown and elected her a member of the Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine. In 1953, she was called to Brussels to receive the King Leopold II prize. Member of the Rockefeller Institute. Elected to the "Board of Corporators" of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and was president of the school from 1946 to 1951. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:43, 8 August 2018
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1885 - 1959
Occupation
Medicine
Description
Physician and pathologist, notable for co-discovering a cure for trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping sickness) in 1919. Belgian officials, impressed and grateful for her results, awarded her the Ancient Order of the Crown and elected her a member of the Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine. In 1953, she was called to Brussels to receive the King Leopold II prize. Member of the Rockefeller Institute. Elected to the "Board of Corporators" of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and was president of the school from 1946 to 1951.
