Rosalind Pitt-Rivers
Prominent British biochemist who made groundbreaking contributions to endocrinology
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Kono Yasui
Japanese biologist and cytologist (scientist who studies cells) Kono Yasui became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science in 1927.
Isobel Bennett
Australian marine biologist, particularly renowned as a pioneer of coral reef biology.
Agnes Bankier
Australian geneticist
Florence Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist, naturalist, and author
Dr Mary Logan Reddick
African-American neuroembryologist who earned her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1944.
Dr Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist who made groundbreaking contributions to bacterial genetics, including discovering the λ bacteriophage and the F fertility factor and developing the replica plating technique.
Hilary Stevenson
Irish food scientist
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Pioneering geneticist renowned for her contributions to the field of developmental genetics.
Tilly Edinger
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.