People You Should Know.
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Charles Huggins
Charles Michael Higgins (October 4, 1854 – October 21, 1929) was an Irish-American ink manufacturer and anti-vaccinationist.
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Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton (February 27, 1869 – September 22, 1970) was a leading expert in the field of occupational health. She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology, studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body.
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Frances Kelsey
Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey (1914 - 2015), CM was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety.
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Janet Rowley
Janet Davison Rowley (1925–2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. This proved that cancer is a genetic disease.
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Daniel Hale Williams
Daniel Hale Williams (1856–1931) was an American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed what is referred to as "the first successful heart surgery". In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons.