Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander was a geologist and radio astronomer who worked in radar in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.
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Dr Claudia J Alexander
Dr. Alexander’s role in the Rosetta mission, the first to land on a comet, was not her only triumph. She was also a project manager on NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and was a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As a researcher, Alexander’s studies included the evolution and interior physics of comets, Jupiter and its moons, magnetospheres, plate tectonics, space plasma, the solar wind and the planet Venus. She wrote or co-authored 14 papers.
Dr Njema Frazier
Dr. Frazier is a physicist in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), managing scientific and technical projects established to ensure a safe, secure, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing.
Sarah Frances Whiting
American physicist and astronomer
Adelina Gutiérrez
Chilean professor, scientist and academic who was the main force behind setting up the first Bachelor’s degree in Astronomy in Chile and later the first Master’s degree in Astronomy. She was the first Chilean to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics and also the first woman elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
Isabel Hardwich
Photometry expert and electrical engineer and WES activist.
Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Dr Elizabeth Laverick
British electronics engineer
Dr Daphne Jackson
Nuclear engineer and founder of the UK’s returner fellowships programme.
Elaine Toms
Working in the field of nuclear physics, Toms put everything into career and the work that she did had value, most especially for the women who followed her.