Isabella Karle
American chemist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide when she worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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Justine Siegemund
Silesian midwife who wrote “The Court Midwife,” the first German medical text authored by a woman, in 1690
Kateryna Yushchenko
Soviet Ukrainian computer and information research scientist who developed one of the world’s first high-level programming languages with indirect addressing, called the Address programming language (APL), in 1955.
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Trailblazing U.S. suffragist, philanthropist, and visionary. Her groundbreaking contributions paved the way for the development of the first birth control pill.
Dr Gerty Cori
Czech-American biochemist who, in 1947, became the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Gladys Lounsbury Hobby
American microbiologist whose research significantly contributed to the development of antibiotics, particularly in turning penicillin from a laboratory experiment into a widely manufactured drug during World War II.
Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
Renowned French astronomer and mathematician.
Dr Helen Battle
Trailblazing Canadian ichthyologist and marine biologist.
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg
American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research on globular clusters and variable stars.
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor, and advocate for women’s rights; the first scientist to propose the idea of the greenhouse effect.