Shattering The Glass Ceiling

A Timeline

"I realize that when I achieve these things it helps what other women, and other people of color, black women, can do."
~ Patricia Bath

(Patricia Bath On Being The First Person To Invent & Demonstrate Laserphaco Cataract Surgery)

1942: Born: November 4

1960: Has Research on Cancer Presented in Scientific Paper

1964: Earned a Bachelor's Degree From Hunter College

1968: Graduated From Howard University

1972: Eraka Bath, Bath's daughter, is born

1975: Became First Female Ophthalmologist To Work At UCLA Medical Center

1976: Co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness

1981: Began work on Laserphaco Probe

(Howard University)

"One rainy, cold, lonely night in the labs working until two, three a.m., eureka, Laserphaco came to the planet."
~ Patricia Bath

(Patricia Bath On Being The First Person To Invent & Demonstrate Laserphaco Cataract Surgery)

1986: Created Laserphaco Probe

1988: Became the first African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent

2019: Died: May 30