Barnard Year of Science-Lost Women of Science Initiative

LINDA LAUBENSTEIN ’69 HIV/AIDS researcher and physician among the first doctors to recognize the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s; co-author of the first article linking AIDS with Kaposi’s sarcoma

HELEN RANNEY ’44 Physician-Scientist who pioneered research in hemoglobin genetics; First female chair of an American department of medicine at University of California-San Diego; First female president of the Association of American Physicians and American Society of Hematology; served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences

IDA ROLF 1916 Biochemist; creator of structural integration practice that came to be known as Rolfing

ELIZABETH BISHOP DAVIS-TRUSSEL ’41 Noted Psychoanalyst, Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University

KATHERINE BREHME ’30 Geneticist and executive director of Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

HAZEL BISHOP ’29 Chemist and founder of the cosmetics Hazel Bishop, Inc. Inventor of the first long-lasting lipstick

DOROTHY HANSINE ANDERSEN American pathologist and pediatrician who was the first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American physician to describe the disease