Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.
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Pauline Agassiz Shaw
In 1881, when Pauline Agassiz Shaw founded the North Bennet Street School to train primarily European Jewish and Italian immigrants in skilled trades, Boston’s North End was home to thousands of recent immigrants who crowded into the neighborhood’s tenement houses in search of a better life.
Kate J Boeckh
National Women’s Party suffragist, aviator, inventor
Dr Ellen Ochoa
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa became Johnson Space Center’s 11th center director in 2013 until her retirement in 2018 after 30 years at NASA.
Dr Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith, PhD, is a pioneer in the field of wireless communications whose discoveries have influenced cellular and WiFi networks all over the world.
Dr Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
Edith Clarke
American electrical engineer with expertise in power systems and was influential in the design of dams across the American West, including Hoover Dam.
Rachel Fuller Brown
Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)
Stephanie Kwolek
In 1965 Stephanie Kwolek created the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness. The best-known member is Kevlar, a material used in protective vests as well as in boats, airplanes, ropes, cables, and much more—in total about 200 applications.
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)