Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a degree in biology, followed by a Ph.D. from Columbia University. But throughout her career she labored behind men with loftier titles who got the bulk of the credit. In the 1940s, when premature babies born with healthy eyes were going blind, Dr. Zacharias was part of the team that worked to root out the cause.
Nimesh Patel, pediatric ophthalmologist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston
Thera Webb. project archivist for the Women at MIT Initiative at MIT
Kate Zernike, author of The Exceptions
Vanessa Formato, archivist at Mass Eye and Ear
Johanna Zacharias, youngest daughter of Leona Zacharias
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Katie Hafner
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Katie Hafner
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