Distinguished Chilean astronomer; the first woman to receive Chile’s National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female astrophysics doctorate from Princeton University, and the first woman president of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
Temple Grandin is an accomplished American scholar and expert in animal behavior.
Canadian botanist and geneticist, the first female professor in a Canadian university, played a crucial role in founding McGill University’s genetics department.
American botanist specializing in agrostology, the study of grasses.
Canadian-American botanist known for her pivotal role in curating the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences. She authored over 310 scientific articles and named 395 land plant species, ranking as the fourth most prolific female scientist in this regard.
African-American woman whose cancer cells became a major part of medical history.
The first Japanese woman to earn a Western medicine degree, from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the USA.
British inorganic chemist, the first British woman to earn a chemistry doctorate and as the chemist who first synthesized a chiral inorganic complex.
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission
Astronomer who discovered pulsars