Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English statistician and social reformer, and the founder of modern nursing. During the Crimean War she managed and trained nurses and arranged care for injured soldiers in Constantinople, lowering death rates through better hygiene. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1858 and received the Order of Merit in 1907. Her writings include "Notes on Nursing".