Dr Paula T Hammond
In her lab at MIT she creates technologies so small that you cannot see them with most microscopes—until they save a soldier’s life on the battlefield or illuminate light bulbs using stored solar power.
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
With just two employees, a master brewer’s certificate, and her father’s blessing, Mazumdar-Shaw began a business specializing in industrial enzymes for food and textile makers that now reaches around the globe.
Uma Chowdhury
An ambitious teenaged Uma Chowdhry (1947–2024) left her home in India to study physics and engineering in the United States. But after falling in love with chemistry, particularly materials science, the study of solids at the molecular level, Chowdhry decided to work in industrial research.
Dr Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton promoted “industrial medicine” and laws to protect employees from dangerous substances in the workplace.
Maxine Singer
Pioneering molecular biologist, influential science administrator, and leader in science policy and advocacy.
Dr Virginia Apgar
Her simple, rapid method for assessing newborn viability, the “Apgar score,” has long been standard practice.
Rosalind Franklin
Chemist whose x-ray diffraction studies provided crucial clues to the structure of DNA and quantitatively confirmed the Watson-Crick DNA model
Barbara McClintock
In 1983, at the age of 81, she received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on “mobile genetic elements,” that is, genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome. McClintock was the first woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
Mary Lasker
Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.
Maria Wodzicka
Polish-New Zealand welfare worker and community leader