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BIRTH She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Her father was Harvard economist Frank W. Taussig , and her mother Edith was one of the first students at Radcliffe College . Her mother died when Helen was 11 EDUCATION Taussig graduated Cambridge School For Girls in 1917 , then studied for two years at Radcliffe before earning a Bachelor's Degree from the University Of California At Berkeley in 1921. She then studied at both Harvard Medical School and Boston University before pursuing her cardiac research at Johns Hopkins University . MEDICINE She did extensive work on anoxemia, or Blue Baby Syndrome , which led to the development of the pioneering infant surgery first performed by Taussig and Dr. Alfred Blalock in 1944. She received a Lasker Award for her work. Taussig wrote the book ''Congenital Malformations of the Heart'' in 1947, and in 1959, was one of the first women to be awarded a full professorship at Johns Hopkins University . In 1964, she received the Medal Of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson . All of her achievements were reached despite her Dyslexia , as well as her Deafness throughou the latter part of her career. EXTERNAL LINK : |
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