American lawyer and politician. Holtzman served in the United States House of Representatives for New York’s 16th district from 1973 to 1981. She was also Kings County’s district attorney from 1982 to 1989 and New York City’s 40th Comptroller from 1990 to 1993.
German Jewish educator renowned for her contributions to education.
German Jewish author and journalist
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
Austrian-Jewish artist known for her Modernist work who dedicated her life to art, traveling extensively to exhibit her creations worldwide.
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.
Pioneering geneticist renowned for her contributions to the field of developmental genetics.
High-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist; a world expert on the interactions of K+ mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to them.
When Kyiv fell under German occupation in 1941, Markus joined the underground resistance. She carried out sabotage missions, often disguised as innocent gestures, like throwing a grenade hidden as a bouquet. Using a false identity as “Marcousisse,” she worked at an officer’s dining facility, poisoning SS officers’ meals and eliminating a valuable Gestapo informant.
Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”