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English physician Lucy Wills (1888–1964)

In 1931, Wills described megaloblastic anemia, identical to that seen in patients with pernicious anemia, among nutritionally deficient women at a hospital in India. This nutritional deficiency was later shown to be due to folate deficiency. (Courtesy of Wikipedia. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.)