Meet Virginia Apgar, the unlikely anesthesiologist who saved newborn babies
Read now →Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate
Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate
Happy birthday to the trailblazing developmental biologist
One of the first to recognize insect metamorphosis, she's finally getting her dues after 300 years of obscurity
Her radioimmunoassay technique enabled scientists to measure hundreds of trace biological substances for the first time
A "prophet of the computer age," she saw the potential for computers outside of pure mathematics
The lawmaker, the only microbiologist in Congress, pushed for public health reform