Virginia Apgar
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Virginia Apgar (1909-) earned a medical degree from Columbia University in 1933 and created the Apgar score in 1952.
- She developed the Apgar score, a system of rating the pulse, respiration, muscle tone, color and reflexes of a newborn baby. Her system of evaluating a newborn's health in the first, critical minutes after birth has saved countless lives ... [1]