Gladys R. Henry Dick

(1881-1963) born at Pawnee City, lived in Lincoln. Physician, biomedical researcher, co-discovered with husband a treatment and prevention for scarlet fever, developed Asceptic Nursery Technique which she implemented at the Cradle Society in Evanston, Illinois; nominated with her husband for the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1925. Consult Saturday Evening Post, April 9, 1938, pp. 12-13, 95-96, 98, 100 and Pawnee City Republican obituary, August 29, 1963, p. 5 and Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 1996) 97-101 and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 157-159.

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