Norah Henriette Schuster FRCPath (14 July 1892 – 14 March 1991) was a British pathologist and the first woman to take the pre-clinical medical course at the University of Cambridge.

[4] He gave public lectures on the new technique which Norah and her brother attended, X-rays of their hands and feet being used to illustrate the proceedings for which a ten minute exposure was required due to the weakness of the rays.

[5] Feeling that she could not succeed in pure science, and possibly overshadowed by her eminent father,[5] in 1911 she enrolled as a medical student at the University of Manchester.

[6] She was the first woman to take the pre-clinical course at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, between 1912 and 1915,[7][8] where she obtained a first class degree in the natural sciences tripos.

[3] In 1916, while still a student, Schuster worked as an unpaid assistant in the pathological laboratory of professor Henry Dean at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) in order to ease the staff shortage caused by the First World War.

After paying tribute to Schuster and her affection for the history of medicine, the winning students present their essays, often followed by a discussion.