Elizabeth Blackwell

First woman physician in the United States

Elizabeth Blackwell was a British physician who became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. She was born in 1821 in Bristol, England, and later moved to the United States, where she attended Hobart College in New York. She went on to become a professor of gynecology and helped establish the field of women's health. Blackwell was a pioneering figure in the history of women's rights and medici...