Dorothy Horstmann

Women Scientists Whose Unsung Work Made The Polio Vaccine Possible

Dr Dorothy Horstmann, epidemiologist, virologist, clinician, and educator, was the first woman appointed as a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. A brilliant researcher, Dr. Isabel Morgan was an unsung hero in the race of finding the polio vaccine. Her team was the first to innoculate monkeys with a killed-virus vaccine.