Apel, Melanie Ann.

Virginia Apgar : innovative female physician and inventor of the Apgar score / Melanie Ann Apel. - New York : Rosen Central, 2004. - 112 p. : ill., col. photos. ; 21 cm. - Women hall of famers in mathematics and science .

Includes index. Includes chronology. Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographies.

This book profiles a woman anesthesiologist who was a pioneer in medicine, graduating from medical school at a time when few women attended college and going on to develop the Apgar score for measuring a newborn's physical condition at birth.

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0823938808 (lib.)

2002009415


Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974.


Women physicians--Biography.--United States

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