American Women Inventors

Sybilla Masters could very well be one of the firstimmune-suppressive agent used in organ transplants.
American women inventors in America when AmericaApart from prestigious Nobel Prize she also won
was ruled by the English. The avaialable records showother awards including National Medal of Science
that in 1715 she was given a patent for the method(1991) and the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement
of making cornmeal from maize. It was difficult forAward (1997). She is also the first woman to be
women those days to get patent and she was giveninducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
the patent in her husband's name with the patentwhen she was honored in 1991.Gertrude Elion died in
stating that method was found by his wife, SybillaNorth Carolina at the age of 81 in 1999.
Masters.Another Nobel Prize winner in Medicine from America
Gertrude Belle Elion, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine inis Linda B. Buck, among the most prominent American
1988 had discovered many new drugs including thewomen inventors. She is famous for her work on the
drug for AIDS, AZT. She was an Americanolfactory system. She worked with another
biochemist and also a pharmacologist. She developedrenowned scientist Richard Axel to win the Nobel
these drugs working alone and also while workingPrize in 2004 for their work in olfactory system. She
with another scientist George H. Hitchings. She haswas also an another scientist who got inducted to
contributed hugely in the field of medicine byNational Academy of Sciences in 2004.She got her
inventing many medicines including medicines forPhD in immunology in 1980 from University of Texas
leukemia, gout, malaria, herpes and many otherSouthwestern Medical Center at Dallas and took her
diseases. She also developed the firstpost doctoral degree from Columbia University.