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Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (died 1974)
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Virginia Apgar
American physician and obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909–1974)
Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Apgar score
Scale for newborn viability
The Apgar score is a quick way for health professionals to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth and in response to resuscitation. It was originally developed in 1952 by an anesthesiologist at Columbia University, Virginia Apgar, to address the need…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)