SUNY Upstate Medical University erected a statue of Elizabeth Blackwell on its campus to celebrate her trailblazing career
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social reformer, and was a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine. He…
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science · British-American physician (1821–1910) · physician · medical author · essayist · women's rights activist · human rights defender · writer · also Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth M. Blackwell, Blackwell
Born 3 February 1821 · Died 31 May 1910 · Q234572
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2025· 1 entry
2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2013· 1 entry
The University of Bristol launched the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1986).
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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Elizabeth Blackwell was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1936· 1 entry
Barry called Blackwell her "true love", and requested that her ashes be buried with those of Elizabeth
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1920· 1 entry
Moved in with the Blackwells and took the Blackwell name
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1910· 2 entries
Died 1910-05-31.
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“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”
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1907· 1 entry
While holidaying in Kilmun, Scotland, Blackwell fell down a flight of stairs, and was left almost completely mentally and physically disabled
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1895· 1 entry
Published her autobiography, Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
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1877· 1 entry
Officially retiring from her medical career
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1876· 1 entry
That he was a suitor for Barry, who was 29 at the time
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1874· 3 entries
Blackwell worked together with Florence Nightingale, Sophia Jex-Blake, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Emily Blackwell, and Thomas Henry Huxley to create the first medical school for women in England, London School of Medici
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Blackwell established a women's medical school in London with Sophia Jex-Blake, who had been a student at the New York Infirmary years earlier
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As the London School of Medicine for Women, with the primary goal of preparing women for the licensing exam of Apothecaries Hall
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1871· 2 entries
Geneva Medical College was disbanded and was transferred to Syracuse University until 1950 when it became SUNY Upstate Medical University, which counts Elizabeth Blackwell among its alumni
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And was acquired in 1950 by the State University of New York
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1869· 1 entry
Blackwell diversified her interests, and was active both in social reform and authorship
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1868· 1 entry
A medical college for women adjunct to the infirmary was established
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1857· 3 entries
Marie Zakrzewska, along with Blackwell and her sister Emily, who had also obtained a medical degree, expanded Blackwell's original dispensary into the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children
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And began giving lectures to female audiences on the importance of educating girls
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Blackwell opened the New York Infirmary for Women with her younger sister Emily
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1856· 1 entry
When Blackwell was establishing the New York Infirmary, she adopted Katherine "Kitty" Barry (1848–1936), an Irish orphan from the House of Refuge on Randall's Island
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1853· 1 entry
Blackwell established a small dispensary near Tompkins Square
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1852· 1 entry
Blackwell began delivering lectures and published The Laws of Life with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls, her first work, a volume about the physical and mental development of girls that concerned its
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1851· 1 entry
With the hope of establishing her own practice
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1849· 2 entries
In the Buffalo Medical Journal and Monthly Review, shortly after she graduated, was the first medical article published by a female student from the United States
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Her thesis on typhoid fever was published in the Buffalo Medical Journal and Monthly Review
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1847· 2 entries
Blackwell became the first woman to attend medical school in the United States
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Blackwell left Charleston for Philadelphia and New York, with the aim of personally investigating the opportunities for medical study
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1846· 1 entry
Began teaching at a boarding school in Charleston run by a Mrs
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1844· 1 entry
With the help of her sister Anna, Blackwell procured a teaching job that paid $1,000 (~$34,554 in 2025) per year in Henderson, Kentucky
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1832· 1 entry
The Blackwell family emigrated from Bristol, England, to New York because Samuel Blackwell had lost their most profitable sugar refinery in a fire
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1821· 1 entry
Born 1821-02-03.
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