Anna Winlock
Distinguished American astronomer and a notable member of the pioneering female computer group known as “the Harvard Computers.”
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Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Claribel Cone
Claribel Cone significantly contributed to two distinct fields: biology and the patronage of modern French art.
Edith Pechey
Pioneering figure in the early history of women in medicine in the United Kingdom who made significant contributions to the advancement of women’s rights and played a crucial role in the struggle for women’s access to medical education.
Ella M S Marble
American physician who had a diverse career as a journalist, educator, and activist. Marble actively supported women’s interests and participated in various movements from an early age.
Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
Dr Isabel Morgan
American virologist at Johns Hopkins University who was key in developing an experimental vaccine that shielded monkeys from polio.
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.
Justine Siegemund
Silesian midwife who wrote “The Court Midwife,” the first German medical text authored by a woman, in 1690
Kateryna Yushchenko
Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.