One of the first women to work with x-ray technology professionally, she was also the first woman to die from the effects of radiation from working with x-rays.
Exact details of her life are disputed, but it is believed she was the second of six children in her family, all six of whom went to school. Elizabeth was going to be a book-keeper, but after moving in with her sister and brother-in-law, who happened to be a doctor who introduced her to the x-ray technology, she fell in love and devoted the rest of her life to the science of it. From helping wounded soldiers in the Spanish American War to later helping dental patients, she never slowed down. In 1904, her arm was amputated from the effects of radiation exposure, but it did not stop the cancer which spread and she died a year later. Her obituary appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Exact details of her life are disputed, but it is believed she was the second of six children in her family, all six of whom went to school. Elizabeth was going to be a book-keeper, but after moving in with her sister and brother-in-law, who happened to be a doctor who introduced her to the x-ray technology, she fell in love and devoted the rest of her life to the science of it. From helping wounded soldiers in the Spanish American War to later helping dental patients, she never slowed down. In 1904, her arm was amputated from the effects of radiation exposure, but it did not stop the cancer which spread and she died a year later. Her obituary appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
One of the first women to work with x-ray technology professionally, she was also the first woman to die from the effects of radiation from working with x-rays.
Exact details of her life are disputed, but it is believed she was the second of six children in her family, all six of whom went to school. Elizabeth was going to be a book-keeper, but after moving in with her sister and brother-in-law, who happened to be a doctor who introduced her to the x-ray technology, she fell in love and devoted the rest of her life to the science of it. From helping wounded soldiers in the Spanish American War to later helping dental patients, she never slowed down. In 1904, her arm was amputated from the effects of radiation exposure, but it did not stop the cancer which spread and she died a year later. Her obituary appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Exact details of her life are disputed, but it is believed she was the second of six children in her family, all six of whom went to school. Elizabeth was going to be a book-keeper, but after moving in with her sister and brother-in-law, who happened to be a doctor who introduced her to the x-ray technology, she fell in love and devoted the rest of her life to the science of it. From helping wounded soldiers in the Spanish American War to later helping dental patients, she never slowed down. In 1904, her arm was amputated from the effects of radiation exposure, but it did not stop the cancer which spread and she died a year later. Her obituary appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Aged 38 years. " I believe that I have done some good in this world"
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