Dr. Patricia Bath
In the past few years I have had multiple conversations with Patricia Bath, the African American (heroine) who invented the laser-phaco probe. We talked on the phone several times and emailed back and forth. She had a lot of drive to succeed even though she was retired. She created a consumable book that describes how we can see light and rainbows. She sent me several for Christmas in 2018 I promptly set up a Donor's Choose to get more of them so I could send them home with some of my students. We also used a special refraction material I found on Amazon so that kids could get the experience of seeing rainbows. I emailed her a couple times in the past six months to tell her about it and wondered why she did not respond as she usually did. Last May 2019, she died of complications from cancer. I feel like I've lost a friend.
