Bertha Rader

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Bertha Rader, M.D., began her medical career as an EKG technician at Bellevue Hospital. After graduating from NYU School of Medicine in 1945, Dr. Rader became Chief of the Cardiac Clinic, and ran the electrocardiography service at Bellevue Hospital for decades.

Severo Ochoa

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Portrait of Severo Ochoa, Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959 for biochemical genetics and nucleic acids.