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Dr. Patricia Bath overcame sexism, racism & poverty and saved the sight of millions of people.
She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment, 1986; it was patented in 1988. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, 1976. She died #OTD in 2019.
#WomenInSTEM 
