Dr Yvette Cauchois
Prominent French physicist.
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Sulamith Goldhaber
High-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist; a world expert on the interactions of K+ mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to them.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”
Dr Myriam Sarachik
Belgian-born American experimental physicist renowned for her contributions to low-temperature solid-state physics. She served as a distinguished professor of physics at the City College of New York from 1996.
Marguerite Perey
Prominent French physicist known for her pioneering work in radiochemistry.
Ida Noddack
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astronomer who discovered pulsars
Margaret Huggins
Irish pioneer astrophysicist
Ālenush Teriān
Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist Ālenush Teriān has been called the ‘Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy’.
Ruby Payne-Scott
Ruby Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radio physics and radio astronomy, and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.