Share this on WhatsApp Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, followed by a Ph.D. from Columbia University. But throughout her career, she labored behind men with loftier titles who got the bulk of the credit. In the 1940s, when premature newborns were … Continue reading Leona Zacharias Helped Solve a Blindness Epidemic among Premature Babies. She Received Little Credit