Google is praising clinical researcher and polio doctor Dame Jean Macnamara with another Doodle on her 121st birthday.
Macnamara researched different types of loss of motion, like polio, during her profession, and her work took a big part in the improvement of the polio antibody in 1955.
Google's page highlights pictures of Macnamara helping a patient. She graduated from medical/clinical school in 1925, that year, a polio pandemic hit Melbourne.
She worked with Sir Macfarlane Burnet, that later won a Nobel prize and made new important discoveries on the poliovirus in 1931. Macnamara kept on working with the individuals who had the malady, growing new techniques for treatment and recovery.
Macnamara was delegated Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1935 and furthermore had more jobs and made new discoveries.
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