• Patricia

Bath
Patricia bath was born on November 4, 1942 in New York city. She was
married with a child. Patricia was the second child and first daughter born. She
attend Hunter college with a B.A degree in 1964 and Howard university medical
college in 1968. Baths father immigrated to the united states from trinidad and
worked at a variety of occupations. He was the first black motor man for the New
York city subway system and also wrote a newspaper column and worked as a
merchant. Baths mother Gladys bath was descend from African slaves and
cherokee indians. She worked as a homemaker until her children were in middle
school and then worked as a house keeper for other families. At the age of six-
teen bath made national headlines after developing a hypothesis and creating a
mathmatical equation to predict cancer cell growth. The cell growth led her to be
named the owner of the 1960 Merit Award. Patricia proposed a new discipline
within opthimology called community ophthimology that makes basic eye care
available to everybody which she thougth cause for blindness. In 1975 she was
the first woman to be called to join the department of ophthimology at UCLA.
She invented the laserphaco probe surgical device to remove cataracts. It
combine optical fiber that conducts laser radiation with an immigration line and
an aspiration line.This invention has been succesful and has recovered people
that have been blind for years. Baths holds patents from Japan, Canada and five
european countries and is waiting to get the approval for the U.S these are some
of the things about bath and what she invented. I learned that you can be what
you want to be and that you just have to believe and yourself and order to get
people to believe and you. Also, i learned that u have to get your education and
do your best in school to be something in life. I chose this individual because i
realized that she invented objects and things to help the blind and my
grandmother is blind so i was just wondering what it would be like to see
somebody helped that have been blind for years. This is how i feel about Patricia
Bath and what she did to help out the blind.