One of the first researchers to isolate the organism which causes Kala-azar disease
Ethnobotanist and Infectious Disease Microbiologist: Dr. Elvin-Lewis is an expert on evaluating traditional medicines and their use.
Internationally recognized for her software for calculating atomic structure, and for research in atomic structure theory.
A world expert on nerve cells
Physicist; among the first to study X-rays
Biochemist: Developed the Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics
Pioneering advances in partial differential equations and wave propagation math used in aerodynamics, acoustics and optics
Molecular biologist; conducted pioneering research on the role genes play in the development of the mammalian embryo.
