Caroline Haslett
Distinguished English electrical engineer and advocate for women’s rights.
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Emīlija Gudriniece
Latvian chemist renowned for her contributions to organic synthesis.
Jadwiga Szeptycka
Polish archeologist and ethnographer, writer and social activist
Tomoko Ohta
Renowned scientist and Professor Emeritus at the National Institute of Genetics. She specializes in population genetics and molecular evolution and is famous for her work on the nearly neutral theory of evolution.
Alberte Pullman
Esteemed French theoretical and quantum chemist.
Margaretta Morris
American entomologist known for studying wheat flies. In 1850, she became, together with the astronomer Maria Mitchell, the first woman elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr Janaki Ammal
Prominent Indian botanist known for her work in plant breeding, cytogenetics, and phytogeography.
Irena Sendler
Vital member of the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, heading the children’s section of Żegota from October 1943.
Dorothea Erxleben
Germany’s first female doctor.
Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.