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Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker, commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war in the American Civil War, and surgeon. She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
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science · American feminist and doctor (1832–1919) · abolitionist · women's rights activist · physician · feminist · also Mary Edwards Walker, Mary E. Walker, Mary Walker, Mary Edwards Walker Miller, Walker
Born 26 November 1832 · Died 21 February 1919 · Q2418031
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2019· 1 entry
Walker was included in Hillary and Chelsea Clinton's book The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,744 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,857 times.
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Published “Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>” in Journal of Statistical Software — cited 76,397 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Psychology Today: Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R” in Statistics for Biology and Health — cited 12,827 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2000).
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1919· 2 entries
Died 1919-02-21.
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Came 544 days before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote
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1917· 1 entry
(along with over 900 other recipients); however, it was restored in 1977
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1907· 1 entry
Walker published "Crowning Constitutional Argument", in which she argued that some states, as well as the federal Constitution, had already granted women the right to vote
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1871· 1 entry
Wrote, "The greatest sorrows from which women suffer to-day are those physical, moral, and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing
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1870· 1 entry
Walker was arrested in New Orleans and mocked by men because she was dressed as a man
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1864· 1 entry
Was captured by Confederate troops, and arrested as a spy, just after she finished helping a Confederate doctor perform an amputation
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1860· 1 entry
Until she was suspended for refusing to resign from the school's debating society, which until she joined had been all male
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1855· 1 entry
Earned her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College in New York, married and started a medical practice
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1832· 2 entries
The daughter of Alvah (father) and Vesta (mother) Walker
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Born 1832-11-26.
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