Elizabeth Blackwell
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ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
Famous Scientist
1821-1910
Elizabeth Blackwell Was born in Bristol, United Kingdom
ST.BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL
This is the hospital where Elizabeth Blackwell Worked
FAMOUS QUOTE BY:ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
- "It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world."
PLACES NAMED AFTER ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
- Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary School
- Elizabeth Blackwell Center
Elizabeth Blackwell didn't ever give up and always continued her efforts to open the medical profession to women. In 1857, Elizabeth and her sister Emily found their own infirmary, named the New York infirmary for indigent Women and Children. During the American Civil war, Blackwell trained many women to be nurses and sent them to the union army.
TWO INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
- She was the first ever women to get a medical degree.
- She was proudly proclaimed as a pioneer for women in medicine as early as the adjourned convention in Rochester, New York, two weeks after the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls
