Famous Survivor and Deceased

Science

Name	Life	Comments	Diagnosis
Mary Anning	(1799 - 1847)	English fossil collector and paleontologist from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England; subject of the book Mary Anning of Lyme Regis by Crispin Tickell; died at age 48	diagnosed in 1845 at age 46
Mary Astell	(1666 - 1731)	English philosopher and feminist writer; died at age 65	diagnosed in 1731 at age 65
Rachel Carson	(1907 - 1964)	American environmentalist and author (Silent Spring); died at age 56	diagnosed in 1960 at age 53
Mary Culpeper	(16?? - 1635)	mother of English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper
Sophie Germain	(1776 - 1831)	French mathematician; died at age 55
Shirley Glass	(19?? - 19??)	psychotherapist and author of Not Just Friends and mother of public radio personality Ira Glass; died at age 67
Jerri Nielsen	(1952 - present)	American physician who famously treated herself for breast cancer while stuck in the South Pole after discovering a lump on her breast, as depicted in the movie Ice Bound at the Internet Movie Database	diagnosed in 1999 at age 47
Edith Pechey	(1845 - 1908)	aka Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson; one of the first British female physicians, worked in India for 20 years, and was a women's rights activist; died at age 63	diagnosed in 1907 at age 62
Marjorie Shostak	(1945 - 1996)	American anthropologist; died at age 51	diagnosed in 1989 at age 44