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Patricia Bath

1942 - 2019

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Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University. She was also the first African-American woman to serve on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Patricia Bath is the 374th most popular inventor (down from 322nd in 2019), the 9,149th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,387th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Patricia Bath ranks 374 out of 426. Before her are Amar Bose, Andrew Viterbi, Karl Jatho, Edward Craven Walker, Harry Ferguson, and Tabitha Babbitt. After her are John Milne, Henry J. Kaiser, Robert S. Langer, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Charles Darrow, and Frank Piasecki.

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Among people born in 1942, Patricia Bath ranks 569. Before her are Bob Love, John Ashcroft, Kees Verkerk, Pavel Sadyrin, Jan Wienese, and Claudine Longet. After her are Kenneth Lay, Tammy Faye Messner, Lopo do Nascimento, Klaus Glahn, Bob Einstein, and Mario Chaldú. Among people deceased in 2019, Patricia Bath ranks 438. Before her are Shelley Lubben, Yao Lee, Carlos Squeo, Jerrie Cobb, Frank Robinson, and Miklós Ambrus. After her are Béla Zsitnik, Heinz Fütterer, Aleksandar Kostov, King Kong Bundy, Bob Einstein, and Maximilian Raub.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Patricia Bath ranks 9,151 out of 20,380. Before her are Marshall Berman (1940), Peter Friedman (1949), Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Conlon Nancarrow (1912), Tony Kushner (1956), and Diane di Prima (1934). After her are Gail Ann Dorsey (1962), Salvatore Cordileone (1956), Taylor Fritz (1997), Laura Prepon (1980), Rocky Carroll (1963), and Robert Morse (1931).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Patricia Bath ranks 99. Before her are Orville Gibson (1856), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Ken Olsen (1926), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Amar Bose (1929), and Tabitha Babbitt (1779). After her are Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Robert S. Langer (1948), Charles Darrow (1889), Frank Piasecki (1919), George Stibitz (1904), and George Beauchamp (1899).

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