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The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.

Tilly Edinger

Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.

Marcella LeBeau

Prominent Lakota woman celebrated for her service as a nurse and military veteran.

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch

Pioneering geneticist renowned for her contributions to the field of developmental genetics.

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.

Margaret Hamilton

American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner; director of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory’s Software Engineering Division, a crucial role in developing onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo program.