Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett OBE was a New Zealand doctor. She served as the Chief Medical Officer of a medical unit during World War I and was later awarded an O.B.E. for her services in improving the health of women and children.
Kitty O’Brien Joyner joined the NACA, the precursor to NASA, in 1939 as an electrical engineer after graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA). She was the first woman to graduate from UVA’s engineering program and the NACA’s first female engineer. Joyner spent her career working in and managing wind tunnels and supersonic flight research.
Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist and professor in the areas of language and cognition. She is an associate professor of cognitive science at the University of California San Diego and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She previously taught at MIT and at Stanford. Her research is on the relationships between mind, world and language (or how humans get so smart).
Boroditsky was named one of 25 visionaries changing the world by the Utne Reader, and is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell scholar, recipient of an NSF Career award and an APA Distinguished Scientist lecturer.