Florence Nightingale (Person) AKA The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale
1820 AD - 1910 AD
AKA The Lady with the Lamp
English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers.
She gave nursing a favorable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.
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