TENLEY ALBRIGHT

Tenley Albright kicked off her ice-skating career to treat her symptoms after she had suffered from a polio attack when she was just 11 years old. She became so good with ice skating that she became the first American female ice skater to bring home the Olympic Gold in 1956. During the career of Tenley Albright, she had received numerous honors and awards such as the 1956 Olympic champion, the 1952 Olympic silver medalist, the 1953 and 1955 World Champion, and the 1953 and 1955 North American champion.

She later quit her professional ice-skating career to get a degree. She studied medicine at Harvard and became a surgeon just like her father. Before she decided to retire, she worked as a surgeon for more than two decades. Now that she is 84 years old, she is the director of MIT Collaborative Initiatives.