Irène Joliot-Curie
Prominent French scientist and politician
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Dr Julia Lermontova
The first Russian woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry
Mildred Dresselhaus
Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”
Marguerite Perey
Prominent French physicist known for her pioneering work in radiochemistry.
Isabella Karle
American chemist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide when she worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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.
Gladys Lounsbury Hobby
American microbiologist whose research significantly contributed to the development of antibiotics, particularly in turning penicillin from a laboratory experiment into a widely manufactured drug during World War II.
Emīlija Gudriniece
Latvian chemist renowned for her contributions to organic synthesis.
Alberte Pullman
Esteemed French theoretical and quantum chemist.
Ida Noddack
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission