In the 1960s, the National Science Foundation found itself in disagreement with the U.S. Navy. The NSF was trying to pioneer a new field of Antarctic science, and it needed all the talent it could get — including women.
Albert Leon Henne (1901-1967) was a professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Ohio State University. Henne was a part of a team that discovered and developed the use of Freon as a refrigerant.
Richard Olsen, a professor of veterinary pathobiology at The Ohio State University from 1969 until 1988, developed a vaccine that prevents feline leukemia, a commonly fatal disease in cats.
Clara Bloomfield (1942-2020) was an internationally recognized physician whose three decades of groundbreaking research on adult leukemia and lymphoma have changed the way patients are treated.
Richard Hill is a professor and Dean Emeritus at the College of Optometry. A faculty member at Ohio State since 1964, Hill’s research focuses on the neuro-physiology of the visual system and the physiology of the eye.
Bertha Bouroncle (1919-2013) came to The Ohio State University in 1948 on a one-year postdoctoral scholarship awarded to her by Saint Marcos National University Medical School in Peru.