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Jerusha Jhirad
Indian physician
1891 – 1984aged 93
The first woman awarded a scholarship by the Indian government to study medicine abroad, she earned her medical degree in London in 1917 and went on to run Bombay's Cama Hospital from 1929 to 1947. Her statistical studies of the city's maternal mortality rate shaped public health policy, and she founded the Bombay Obstetric and Gynaecological Society while also leading India's national federation of the field. She received an MBE in 1945 and the Padma Shri in 1966; a crater on Venus is named for her.