I'm working on a Women in Medicine badge with my Girl Scouts. One of the requirements asks the girls to research women in the medical research field. They give two names-Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie. Could anyone come up with more names? I have 14 girls and I'd like to assign them each one name. They range in age from 8 to 12. I will double up if necessary, but all the better if each has one name. Thanks and hello to everyone!

A good place to start would be with the Nobel Laureates in Medecine/Physiology. The linked pages contain information about why the prize was given, as well as biographical information, lectures, and interviews.


Linda B. Buck
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2004/index.html

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1995/index.html

Gertrude B. Elion
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1988/index.html

Barbara McClintock
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1983/index.html

Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1947/index.html



In case I missed any, here's the list of laureates:
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/index.html

Two other names that come to mind:
Virginia Apgar (recently memorialized on a postage stamp) and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

BLODGETT, KATHERINE
Kathering J. Blodgett (1898-1979) was an American physicist and inventor who invented a micro-thin barium stearate film that makes glass completely nonreflective and "invisible" (patent #2,220,660, March 16, 1938). Blodgett's invention has been used in eyeglasses, camera lenses, telescopes, microscopes, periscopes, and projector lenses. Blodgett also invented a gauge that measured the thickness of this type of coating (which can be only a few molecules thick), called a "color gauge."

I'm not sure this would be considered medical research but you could ask.

Helen Taussig of Hopkins blue baby fame.

The American Medical Association's Women in Medicine month page

Probably a good place to look around for other information, but of particular interest might be the timeline(PDF), which mentions dozens of women in medicine.