Mildred Dresselhaus
Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”
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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.
Margaretha van Godewijk
Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.
Marguerite Perey
Prominent French physicist known for her pioneering work in radiochemistry.
Mary Golda Ross
First known Native American female engineer and pioneering female engineer at Lockheed.
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst who later practiced in the United States. Her pioneering theories challenged traditional Freudian beliefs, especially in the realms of sexuality and psychoanalysis’s instinctual emphasis.
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Jewish-American zoologist known for her pioneering work in evolutionary theory and contributions to zoology.
Liliana Lubińska
Renowned neuroscientist known for her work on the peripheral nervous system and the discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport.
Anna Winlock
Distinguished American astronomer and a notable member of the pioneering female computer group known as “the Harvard Computers.”