Mary Agnes Chase
American botanist specializing in agrostology, the study of grasses.
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Alice Eastwood
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.
Henrietta Lacks
African-American woman whose cancer cells became a major part of medical history.
Kei Okami
The first Japanese woman to earn a Western medicine degree, from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the USA.
Edith Humphrey
British inorganic chemist, the first British woman to earn a chemistry doctorate and as the chemist who first synthesized a chiral inorganic complex.
Ida Noddack
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astronomer who discovered pulsars
Eileen Savell
New Zealand nurse who served overseas during WWI
Kitty Seville
New Zealand health and welfare worker
Marjorie Chambers
New Zealand nursing pioneer