Susie King Taylor
The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.
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Tilly Edinger
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.
Marcella LeBeau
Prominent Lakota woman celebrated for her service as a nurse and military veteran.
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Pioneering geneticist renowned for her contributions to the field of developmental genetics.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”
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.