C S Stevens
Harvard Observatory astronomer
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Caroline Furness
Director of the Vassar College Observatory in the early 1900s
Sarah Frances Whiting
American physicist and astronomer
Alice Davis
Secretary and Librarian at the Allegheny Observatory
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Astronomy philanthropist
Ada A Achorn
American osteopath
Dr Fanny Berlin
Dr. Fanny Berlin (1852-1921) traveled from her home in Ukraine to medical school in Switzerland, one of the few medical schools that would accept women at the time. She emigrated to the United States right after graduating and worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, one of the few hospitals who treated immigrant women.
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist
Jane Wadsworth
Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.
Dr Agnes Wells
Agnes Wells was an American mathematician and astronomer who worked during the first half of the 20th century. She spent most of her career expertly guiding women students and trying to improve the status of women in American society.