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Sarah Al Amiri

Sarah bint Yousef Al Amiri is the Emirati Minister of State for Advanced Sciences, chair of the UAE Space Agency and the United Arab Emirates Council of Scientists, and Deputy Project Manager of the Emirates Mars Mission, Hope. She began her career at the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology, where she worked on satellite projects DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2. She joined the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment before later taking on a senior role at the Dubai World Trade Centre. In 2016 she was appointed the head of the Emirates Science Council.
In November 2017 Amiri became the first Emirati to speak at an international TED event when she spoke in Louisiana about the Hope Mars Mission. The mission launched in July 2020, scheduled to reach Mars in 2021 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the United Arab Emirates’ independence.
In October 2017 Amiri was named Minister of State for Advanced Sciences in the United Arab Emirates Cabinet. To increase global scientific collaboration, Al Amiri toured US scientific institutions in November 2017.

Inez Whipple Wilder

Inez Whipple Wilder was an American herpetologist and anatomist, affiliated with Smith College from 1902 until her death in 1929. In 1904 Inez published an influential study on the skin of mammalian palms and feet, describing how embryonic pads influence later ridges and patterns, now recognized as an important early contribution to dermatoglyphics, the study of fingerprints. The paper, “The Ventral Surface of the Mammalian Chiridium: With Special Reference to the Conditions Found in Man”, summarized all prior knowledge of the field of genetics and dermatoglyphics, and was the most significant study of in time about the ridges in non-human animals of its time. Her 1914 book Laboratory Studies in Mammalian Anatomy was widely used, with a second edition published in 1923.
Inez was the first to name and describe the function of nasolabial grooves, olfactory structures found in plethodontid, or “lungless” salamanders. Later, with a colleague, she proposed an explanation for the evolutionary loss of lungs in plethodontids. She studied the salamanders Desmognathus fuscus and Eurycea bislineata extensively, and published 13 papers on salamander biology. In 1925 she published The Morphology of Amphibian Metamorphosis, in which she describes the comparative biology of D. fuscus, E. bislineata, and the newt Notophthalmus viridescens.

Adah Thoms

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms was an African-American nurse who co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and served as president from 1916 to1923. She was the acting director of the Lincoln School for Nurses (New York) and fought for African-Americans to serve as American Red Cross nurses during World War I and later as U.S. Army Nurse Corps nurses starting with the flu epidemic in December 1918. She was one of the first nurses inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame when it was established in 1976.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurobiologist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

Ann Katharine Mitchell

Ann Katharine Mitchell was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the Germans’ Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during World War II. She later became a marriage guidance counsellor, then worked for the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Social Administration and wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children, including Someone to Turn to: Experiences of Help Before Divorce (1981) and Children in the Middle: Living Through Divorce (1985).

Minnie Fisher Cunningham

Born: March 19 1882, United States Died: 9 December 1964 Country most active: United States Also known as: NA Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the […]

Dr Florence Stoney

Irish medical doctor who was the first female radiologist in the United Kingdom

Susan Fowler

Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment. Fowler worked at two technology startup companies before joining Uber in late 2015. In early 2017, her blog post on sexual harassment at the company went viral and ultimately led to the removal of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick. She runs a science book club and has written a book on microservices, a style of constructing applications as a collection of loosley coupled services. Fowler served as editor-in-chief of a quarterly publication by the payment processing company Stripe, and as a technology opinion editor at The New York Times.

Nancy Tyson Burbidge

Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and curator of the CSIRO herbarium.

Winifred Kennan

Winifred Kennan earned her MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1920, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. She worked with Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital as its medical superintendent from 1921-1923 and later as honorary consultant obstetrician. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine on 11 June 1977.