Rogers, Martha.

Martha Rogers (1914-1994) received her diploma from the Knoxville General Hospital School of Nursing (Knoxville, Tenn.), her BSN from George Peabody College, her MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her EdD from Johns Hopkins University. Martha Rogers was a dynamic nursing leader whose vision for the nursing profession improved nursing education, practice, and research in the United States and internationally.

Rogers is well known for her long and distinguished tenure as Head, Division of Nursing, New York University for her theory of "unitary human beings," which she saw as a paradigm for nursing. She wrote three books over the course of her career, and received numerous awards and citations for her sustained contributions to nursing and science. She practiced public health nursing in Michigan and Connecticut, taught at Catholic University, and later served as Director of the Visiting Nurses Association in Phoenix, Arizona.