Helen Brooke Taussig was born on May 24, 1898, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Helen Brooke Taussig was born on May 24, 1898, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into a family deeply immersed in academics. Her father, Frank William Taussig, was a renowned economist, and her mother, Edith Thomas Guild, was among the first women to attend Radcliffe College. Despite facing educational barriers, particularly as a woman with dyslexia during an era with limited support for such conditions, she was determined to pursue higher education and make significant contributions to medicine.