Dr Mary Logan Reddick
African-American neuroembryologist who earned her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1944.
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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.
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Jewish-American zoologist known for her pioneering work in evolutionary theory and contributions to zoology.
Liliana Lubińska
Renowned neuroscientist known for her work on the peripheral nervous system and the discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport.
Claribel Cone
Claribel Cone significantly contributed to two distinct fields: biology and the patronage of modern French art.
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Trailblazing U.S. suffragist, philanthropist, and visionary. Her groundbreaking contributions paved the way for the development of the first birth control pill.
Dr Gerty Cori
Czech-American biochemist who, in 1947, became the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.