10 Dec 1926 – 15 April 2018
Neena Schwartz was an American endocrinologist and William Deering Professor of Endocrinology at Northwestern University. She was a founding member of the Association for Women In Science, co-founded Women in Endocrinology, and organized the founding of the Program for Reproductive Research at Northwestern, which would evolve into the Center for Reproductive Science. In 2010, she published her memoir, A Lab of My Own, in which she came out as a lesbian and encouraged queer people to persevere in science.