Elizabeth Blackwell
{3 February 1821(
Bristol in England) – 31 May 1910( Hastings in England)
}was the
first
woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the
first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first openly
identified woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting
the education of women in the medicine the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in England.