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Women in STEM

This collection brings together the biographies of a number of remarkable women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

(Dr. Halina Hoffman, staff member of Ste. Justine's Hospital in the anaesthesia department)
(Canada. Dept. of Manpower and Immigration / Library and Archives Canada)

Dr. Halina Hoffman, staff member of Ste. Justine's Hospital in the anaesthesia department

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Nursing Sisters
Dr. Amelia Yeomans
Elizabeth (Elsie) MacGill
Roberta Bondar
Helen Sawyer Hogg, c. 1960
Ursula Franklin
Victoria Kaspi, astrophysicist
Elizabeth Laurie Smellie
Payette, Julie
Maude Abbott, pathologist
Martha Louise Black
Jane Jacobs
Veena Rawat: Telecommunications Trailblazer
Lucille Teasdale with Matthew Lukwiya
Rachel Chang: Scientist in the Mist
Irene Ayako Uchida: Seeing an Invisible Story

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