Magda Ericson (1926 -) - French-Algerian Nuclear Phyisicist

Sybilla Masters (1675 - 1720) - American Inventor of the Corn Mill

Martha Daniell Logan (1704 - 1779) - Botanist

Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722 - 1793) - Agriculturist

Jane Colden (1724 - 1766) - Botanist

Mary Kies (1752 - 1837) - Inventor

Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755 - 1814) - Possible Contributor to the Invention of Cotton Gin with Eli Whitney

Hannah Slater (1774 - 1812) - Inventor

Tabitha Babbitt (1779 - 1853) - Inventor of the Circular Saw

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793 - 1884) - Botanist

Mary Brush (fl. 1815) - Inventor

Eunice Foot (1818 - 1888) - Chemist

Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) - Astronomer

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - British-American Physician

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822 - 1907) - Naturalist

Emily Blackwell (1826 - 1910) - Physician

Martha Jane Coston (1826 - 1904) - Inventor of the Coston Flare

Mary Walton (c. 1827-?) - Inventor

Mary Treat (1830 - 1923) - Naturalist

Harriet Mann Miller (Olive Thorne Miller) (1831 - 1918) - Naturalist and Ornithologist

Mary Walker (1832 - 1919) - Surgeon

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (1833 - 1910) - Dentist

Susan Hallowell (1835 - 1911) - America Botanist

Maria Beasley (1836 - 1913) - Inventor

Mary Albertson (1838 - 1914) - Botanist and Astronomer

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 - 1923) - Ethnologist

Margaret E. Knight (1838 - 1914) - Inventor

Josephine Garis Cochrane (1839 - 1913) - Inventor

Rachel Lloyd (1839 - 1900) - Chemist

Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842 - 1906) - Physician

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842 - 1911) - Industrial and Environmental Chemist

Emily Roebling (1844 - 1903) - Civil Engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge

Sarah Frances Whiting (1846 - 1927) - Physicist and Astronomer

Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847 - 1930) - Psychologist, Logician and Mathematician

Mary Watson Whitney (1847 - 1921) - Astronomer and Head of the Vassar Observatory

Ellen F. Eglin (c. 1848 - 1890) - Inventor

Mary Murtfeldt (1848 - 1913) - Entomologist

Cornelia Clapp (1849 - 1934) - Zoologist and Marine Biologist

Ellen Hayes (1851 - 1930) - Mathematician and Astronomer

Letitia Geer (1852 - 1935) - Nurse and Inventor of the Modern Syringe

Clara Southmayd Ludlow (1852 - 1924) - Medical Entomologist

Laura Alberta Linton (1853 - 1915) - Chemist

Anna Botsford Comstock (1854 - 1930) - Conservationist

Elizabeth Gifford Peckham (1854 - 1940) - Arachnologist, and Entomologist

Clara Eaton Cummings (1855 - 1906) - Botanist

Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857 - 1945) - Physiologist and Inventor of Micro-Electrode

Zelia Nuttall (1857 - 1933) - Archaeologist

Anna Winlock (1857 - 1904) - Astronomer and ‘Human Computer’

Elizabeth Bragg (1858 - 1929) - Structural Engineer

Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858 - 1934) - Botanist

Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858 - 1947) - Ichthyologist

Fanny Bullock Workman (1859 - 1925) - Geographer, Cartographer, and Explorer

Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt (1859 - 1928) - Pathologist

Marcia Keith (1859 - 1950) - Physics Teacher

Josephine Silone Yates (1859 - 1912) - Chemist

Florence Cushman (1860 - 1940) - Astronomer

Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860 - 1944) - Physicist

Mary J. Rathbun (1860 - 1943) - Zoologist

Dorothea Klumpke-Robert (1861 - 1942) - Astronomer

Nettie Stevens (1861 - 1912) - Geneticist

Zonia Baber (1862 - 1955) - Geologist

Florence Bascom (1862-1945) - Geologist

Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - Astronomer

Ellen Churchill Semple (1863 - 1932) - Geographer

Anna Wessels Williams (1863 - 1954) - Microbiologist

Kate Gleason (1865 - 1933) - Engineer

E. Lilian Todd (1865 - 1937) - Airplane Designer

Mary Anderson (1866 - 1953) - Inventor of the Windshield Wiper Blade

Antonia Coetana Maury (1866 - 1952) - Astronomer

Isabelle Stone (1868 - 1944) - Physicist

Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921) - Astronomer

Mary Agnes Meara Chase (1869 - 1963) - Botanist

Helen Dean King (1869 - 1955) - Biologist

Emilie Martin (1869 - 1936) - Mathematician

Elmina T. Wilson (1870 - 1918) - Structural Engineer;

Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871 - 1945) - Archaeologist

Florence R. Sabin (1871 - 1953) - Medical Scientist

Elizabeth F. Fisher (1872 - 1941) - Geologist

Fanny Gates (1872 - 1931) - Physicist

Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) - Bacteriological Chemist

Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (1872 - 1952) - Mycologist

Sara Josephine Baker (1873 - 1945) - Physician and Public Health Pioneer

Florence Parpart (1873 - 1930) - Inventor of the Refrigerator

Alda H. Wilson (1873 - 1960) - Structural Engineer;

Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis (1874 - 1956) - Botanist

Edith Marion Patch (1876 - 1954) - Entomologist

Sophia Eckerson (1880 - 1954)- Botanist and Microchemist

Alice Catherine Evans (1881 - 1975) - Microbiologist

Eleanor Carothers (1882 - 1957) - Zoologist and Geneticist

Ann Haven Morgan (1882 - 1966) - Zoologist and Ecologist

Alice Middleton Boring (1883 - 1955) - Zoologist

Ethel Browne Harvey (1885 - 1965) - Embryologist

Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885 - 1975) - Chemist and Inventor

Winifred Goldring (1888 - 1971) - Palaeontologist

Sara Branham Matthews (1888 - 1962) - Microbiologist and Physician

Lucy Wilson (1888 - 1980) - Physicist

Mary Caldwell (1890- 1972) - Chemist

Euphemia Haynes (1890 - 1980) - Mathematician

Pearl Kendrick (1890 - 1980) - Bacteriologist

Elizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981) - Hungarian-American Chemist

Edith Quimby (1891 - 1982) - Medical Researcher and Nuclear Physicist

A. Elizabeth Adams (1892 - 1962) - Zoologist

Alice Ball (1892 - 1916) - Pharmaceutical Chemist

Maude Bennot (1892 - 1982) - Director of the Adler Planetarium

Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893 - 1950) - Botanist

Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1893 - 1973) - German-American Pathologist

Helen S. Mitchell (1895 - 1984) - Nutritionist

Alice H. Parker (1895 - 1920) - Inventor of the Gas Furnace

Marguerite Williams (1895 - 1991) - Geologist

Gerty Cori (1896 - 1957) – Czech-America Biochemist

Hazel K. Stiebeling (1896 - 1989) - Nutritionist

Isabel Bassett Wasson (1897 - 1994) - Petroleum Geologist

Lucile Quarry Mann (1897 - 1986) - American Zoologist

Katharine Blodgett (1898 - 1979) - Physicist

Doris Mable Cochran (1898 - 1968) - Herpetologist

Rachel Fuller Brown (1898 - 1980)- Chemist and Inventor

Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898 - 1990) - Astronomer

Anna Baetjer (1899 - 1984) - Physiologist and toxicologist

Margaret Kennard (1899 - 1975) - Neurologist

Jane Stafford (1899 - 1991) - Medical Writer and Early Science Communicator

Mildred Trotter (1899 - 1991) - Forensic Anthropologist

Gertrude Mary Cox (1900 - 1978) - Statistician

Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901 - 1963) - Physician

Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992) - Cytogeneticist

Grace E. Pickford (1902 - 1986) - Biologist and Endocrinologist

Mina Spiegel Rees (1902 - 1997) - Mathematician

Katharine Way (1902 - 1995) - Physicist

Ruth Ella Moore (1903 - 1994) - Microbiologist

Ruby Hirose (1904 - 1960) - Chemist

Mary Sears (1905 - 1997) - Oceanographer

Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906 - 1996) - Mathematician

Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992) - Computer Scientist

Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964) - Marine Biologist and Conservationist

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907 - 2007) - German-American Geneticist

Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) - Botanist and Limnologist

Melba Phillips (1907 - 2004) - Physicist

Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (1907 - 1997) - Pharmacist

Myrtle Bachelder (1908 - 1997) - Chemist; Researcher on the Manhattan Project

Mary Golda Ross (1908 – 2008) - Aerospace engineer

Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974) - Obstetrical Anaesthesiologist

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910 – 1993) - Microbiologist

Dorothy Vaughan (1910 - 2008) - Mathematician

Klára Dán von Neumann (1911 - 1963) - Hungarian-American Computer Programmer

Anna J. Harrison (1912 - 1998) - Organic Chemist

Mildred Cohn (1913 - 2009) - Biochemist

SisterMary Kenneth Keller (1913 - 1985) - Computer Scientist

Elizabeth S. Russell (1913 – 2001) - Geneticist

Florence van Straten (1913 - 1992) - Aerological Engineer

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914 - 1988) - Mathematician

Ruth Turner (1914 – 2000) - Marine biologist

Ruth Benerito (1926 - 2013) - Inventor and Chemist

Betty Holberton (1917 - 2001) - Computer Programmer

Carolyn Parker (1917 - 1966) - Physicist

Gertrude B. Elion (1918 - 1999) - Biochemist and Pharmacologist

Katherine Johnson (1918 - 2020) - Physicist and Mathematician

Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919 - 2004) - Surgeon

Henriette Davidson Avram (1919 - 2006) - Cmputer Programmer

Mildred Rebstock (1919 - 2011) - Chemist

Leona Woods (1919 - 1986) - Physicist

Jane C. Wright (1919 - 2013) - Cancer Researcher

Adele Goldstine (1920 - 1964) - Computer Programmer

Frances Meehan Latterell (1920 - 2008) - Plant Pathologist

Louise Reiss (1920 - 2011) - Physician

Marie Tharp (1920 - 2006) - Geologist and Cartographer

Phyllis S. Freier (1921 - 1992) - Astrophysicist

Joan Hinton (1921 - 2010) - Nuclear Physicist

Mary Jackson (1921 - 2005) - Engineer

Marian Koshland (1921 - 1997) - Immunologist

Marie Maynard Daly (1921 - 2003) - Biochemist

Beatrice Mintz (1921- 2022) - Embryologist

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921 - 2011) - Medical Physicist

Giuliana Tesoro (1921 – 2002) - Italian-American Chemist

Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922 - 1999) - Inventor of Home Security Devices

Eugenie Clark (1922 - 2015)- Ichthyologist

Esther M. Conwell (1922 - 2014) - Physicist

Evans Hayward (1922 - 2020) - Physicist

Ester Lederberg (1922 - 2006) - Microbiologist and Pioneer in Bacterial Genetics

Frances Spence (1922 - 2012) - Computer Programmer

Sulamith Goldhaber (1923 - 1965) - Physicist

Marlyn Meltzer (1922 - 2008) - Computer Programmer

Stephanie Kwolek (1923 - 2014) - Chemist and Inventor

Joanne Simpson (1923 - 2010) - Meteorologist

Jean Bartik (1924 - 2011) - Computer Programmer

Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924 - 2023) - Mathematician

Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924 - 2017) - Cancer Researcher

Ruth Teitelbaum (1924 - 1986) - Computer Programmer

Bette Nesmith Graham (1924 - 1980) - Inventor of Correction Fluid

Evelyn Berezin (1925 - 2018) - Computer Engineer

Nancy Roman (1925 – 2018) - Astronomer

Janet Davidson Rowley (1925 - 2013) - Geneticist

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925 - 1983) - Chemist and Bioinformatician

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926 - 2012) - Nuclear Physicist

Marian Diamond (1926 - 2017) - Neuroscientist

Claire Fagin (1926 -) - Nurse and Nursing Educator

Darleane C. Hoffman (1926 - 2025) - Chemist

Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1927 - 2020) - Plasma Physicist

Martha Chase (1927 - 2003) - Geneticist

Ursula M. Cowgill (1927 - 2015) - Anthropologist and Biologist

Betty Hay (1927 - 2007) - Developmental Biologist

Frances Hugle (1927 - 1968) - Engineer and Inventor of Tape Automated Bonding

Gertrude Neumark (1927 - 2010) - Physicist

Margaret G. Kivelson (1928 -) - Planetary Scientist and Space Physicist

Vera Rubin (1928 - 2016) - Astronomer

Jean E. Sammet (1928 - 2017) - Computer Scientist

Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928 - 1984) - Italian-American Experimental Nuclear Physicist

Dorothea Bennett (1929 - 1990) - Geneticist and Developmental Biologist

Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929 - 2024) - Canadian-American Mathematician

Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929 - 2016) - Chemist

Melba Roy Mouton (1929 - 1990) - Mathematician

Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929 – 2021) - Astronomer

Carolyne Van Vliet (1929 - 2016) - Dutch-American Physicist

Nina Byers (1930 - 2014) - Theoretical Physicist

Hester A. Davis (1930 - 2014) - Archaeologist

Mildred Dresselhaus (1930 - 2017) - Physicist

Patsy Sherman (1930 - 2008) - Chemist

Gladys West (1930 - 2026) - Mathematician

Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931 -) - Information Scientist

Maxine Singer (1931 - 2024) - Molecular Biologist

Frances Allen (1932 - 2020) - Computer Scientist

Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985) - Zoologist and Primatologist

Caroline Herzenberg (1932 - 2025) - Physicist and Science Historian

Marcia Neugebauer (1932 -) - Geologist and Space Physicist

Annie Easley (1933 - 2011) - Rocket and Computer Scientist

Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933 - 2014) - Particle Physicist

Myriam Sarachik (1933 - 2021) - Belgian-American Physicist

Etta Zuber Falconer (1933 - 2002) - Mathematics Lecturer

Sylvia Earle (1935 -) - Marine Biologist

Evelyn Fox Keller (1936 - 2023) - Physicist and Author

Helen T. Edwards (1936 - 2016) - Physicist

Alison Jolly (1937 - 2014) - Primatologist

Lynn Conway (1938 - 2024) - Computer Scientist

Nancy M. Dowdy (1938 -) - Nuclear Physicist

Judy Franz (1938 -) - Physicist

Margaret Hamilton (1938 -) - Computer Scientist and Mathematician

Reatha Clark King (1938 -) - Chemist

Lynn Margulis (1938 - 2011) - Biologist

Sheila Widnall (1938 -) - Aerospace Researcher

Dana Ulery (1938 -) - Computer Scientist

Barbara Askins (1939 -) - NASA Chemist

Mary-Dell Chilton (1939 -) - Biologist and Botanist

Mary K. Gaillard (1939 - 2025) - America Particle Physicist

Judith Goslin Hall (1939 -) - Clinical Geneticist

Barbara Liskov (1939 -) - Computer Scientist

Mina Bissell (1940 -) - Iranian-American Breast Cancer Researcher

Evi Nemeth (1940 - 2013) - Computer Engineer

Lucy Shapiro (1940 -) - Developmental Biologist

Judith Vaitukaitis (1940 - 2018) - Reproductive Neuroendocrinologist

Sau Lan Wu (1940 -) – Chinese American Physicist

Jane Richardson (1941 -) - Biophysicist

Joan A. Steitz (1941 -) - Biochemist and Molecular Biologist

Patricia Bath (1942 - 2019) - Ophthalmologist

Ann Kiessling (1942 -) - Reproductive Biologist

Anita Roberts (1942 - 2006) - Molecular Biologist

Kathleen C. Taylor (1942 -) – Chemist

Elisabeth Vrba (1942 - 2025) -Palaeontologist

Helen M. Berman (1943 -) - Structural Biologist

Brigid Hogan (1943 -) – British American Developmental Biologist

Nancy Hopkins (1943 -) - Molecular Biologist

Valerie Thomas (1943 -) - Inventor

Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -) - Astrophysicist

Bernadine Healy (1944 - 2011) - Physician

Gail R. Martin (1944 -) – Developmental Biologist

Margaret W. Rossiter (1944 -) - Science Historian

Jill Tarter (1944 -) - Astronomer

Adele Goldberg (1945 - ) - Computer Scientist

Nancy Wexler (1945 -) - Geneticist

Anna Curenius Roosevelt (1946 -) - Archaeologist

Shirley Ann Jackson (1946 -) - Physicist

Mary-Claire King (1946 -) - Geneticist

Joan Roughgarden (1946 -) - Evolutionary Biologist

Linda B. Buck (1947 -) - Biologist

Mary L. Cleave (1947 - ) - Engineer and Astronaut

Temple Grandin (1947 -) - Animal Scientist

Gail Hanson (1947 -) - Experimental Particle Physicist

Jane Lubchenco (1947 -) - Environmental Scientist

Barbara A. Schaal (1947 -) - Evolutionary Scientist

Elizabeth Blackburn (1948 -) - Australian-American Molecular Biologist

Karen Wetterhahn (1948 - 1997) - Chemist

Danielle Bunten Berry (1949 - 1998) - Game Designer and Computer Programmer

Fan Chung (1949 -) - Taiwanese -American Mathematician

Ann Druyan (1949 -) - Author

Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

Sue Hendrickson (1949 -) - Palaeontologist

Susan Lindquist (1949 - 2016) - Molecular Biologist

Barbara J. Meyer (1949 -) - Geneticist

Judith Resnik (1949 - 1986) - Engineer and NASA Astronaut

Louise Dolan (1950 -) - Mathematical Physicist

Elaine Fuchs (1950 -) - Cell Biologist

Radia Perlman (1950 -) - Computer Programmer

Martha P. Haynes (1951 -) - Astronomer and Astrophysicist

Susan Hockfield (1951 -) - Neurobiologist

Marcia McNutt (1951 -) - Geophysicists

Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) - Physicist and Astronaut

Kathyrn D. Sullivan (1951-) - Geologist and Astronaut

Carolyn Porco (1953 -) - Planetary and Imagery Scientist

Marian Croak (1995 - ) - Software Engineer

Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (1955 - ) Forensic Scientist

Claire M. Fraser (1955 -) - Microbiologist

Katalin Karikó (1955 -) Hungarian-American Biochemist

Cynthia Jane Kenyon (1955 -) - Molecular Biologist

Frances Arnold (1956 -) - Chemical Engineer

Pamela J. Bjorkman (1956 -) - Chemist

Mae Jemison (1956 -) - Physician and Astronaut

Penny Sackett (1956 -) - American-Australian Astronomer

Susan Solomon (1956 -) - Atmospheric Chemist

Lynn Rothschild (1957 -) - Evolutionary Biologist and Astrobiologist

Susan Helms (1958 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

Ann Nelson (1958 - 2019) - Particle Physicist

Ellen Ochoa (1958 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

Margaret J. Profet (1958 -) - Evolutionary Biologist

Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1958 -) - Climatologist

Maria Zuber (1958 -) - Planetary Scientist

Claudia Alexander (1959 - 2015) - Geophysicist and Planetary Scientist

Anita Borg (1959 - 2003) - Computer Programmer

Andrea Brand (1959 -) - Molecular and Developmental Biologist

Danese Cooper (1959 -) - Computer Scientist and Programmer

Deborah Estrin (1959 -) - Computer Scientist

Shafi Goldwasser1959 - Israeli-American Computer scientist

Arati Prabhakar (1959 -) - Engineer

Joanne Pransky (1959 - 2023) - Roboticist, ‘Robotic Psychiatrist’

Linda Avey (1960 -) - Biologist

Catherine Coleman (1960 -) - Chemist and Astronaut

Beth Levine (1960 - 2020) - Microbiologist

Peggy Whitson (1960 -) - Biochemist and Astronaut

Carol W. Greider (1961 -) - Molecular Biologist

Lisa Randall (1962 -) - Theoretical Physicist

Jane Luu (1963 - ) Vietnamese-American Astronomer

Misha Mahowald (1963 - 1996) - Computational Neurologist

Daniela L. Rus (1963 - ) - Roboticist

Jennifer Doudna (1964 -) - Biochemist, CRISPR

Dawn Prince-Hughes (1964 -) - Anthropologist, Primatologist and Ethologist

Andrea Ghez (1965 -) - Astronomer

Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966 -) - Chemist

Jaime Levy (1966 -) - Software Designer

Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (1967 -) - Robotics Engineer

MiMi Aung (1968 -) - Burmese-American Engineer

Daphne Koller (1968 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist

Deborah S. Jin (1968 -) - Physicist

Maria Fadiman (1969 -) - Ethnobotanist

Hope Jahren (1969) - Geochemist

Dana Angluin (fl. 1970s) - Computer Scientist

Nicole King (1970 -) - Biologist

Sara Seager (1971 -) - Canadian-American Astronomer and Planetary Scientist

Ayanna Howard (1972 -) - Roboticist

Pamela Gay (1973 -) - Astronomer and Writer

Anita Goel (1973 -) - Physician, Physicist in Nanotechnology

Pardis Sabeti (1975 -) - Iranian-American Computational Biologist

Beth Shapiro (1976 - ) - Evolutionary Biologist

Jessica Meir (1977 -) - Marine Biologist and Astronaut

Melissa Trainer (1978 -) - Astrobiologist

Christina Koch (1979 -) - Electrical Engineer and Astronaut

Sirisha Bandla (1988 -) - Indian - American Aeronautical Engineer

Katie Bouman (1989 -) - Engineer and Computer Scientist

Joy Crisp (fl. 1989) - Planetary Geologist

Ellen Spertus (fl. 1990s) - Computer Scientist

Lauren Gardner (fl. 2000s) - Engineer

Jane Rigby (fl. 2000s) - Palaeontologist

Mary Higby Schweitzer (fl. 2000s) - Palaeontologist

Mary Voytek (fl.2000s) - Astrobiologist

Peseshet (c. 2500 BC) - Physician

Mary the Prophetess (c. 100 - 300 AD) - Alchemist

Cleopatra the Alchemist (c. 3rd Century AD) - Alchemist, and Author

Hypatia (c. 355 - 415 AD) - Philosopher and Mathematician

Agamede (c. 1200 BC) - Physician

Theano (c. 600 BC) - Pythagorean Philosopher

Agnodice (c. 400 BC) - Physician, Midwife, and Gynaecologist

Pythias the Elder (c. 381 - 326 BC) - Biologist

Aglaonice (c. 200 BC) - Cited as the 1st Female Astronomer in Ancient Greece

Cleopatra the Physician (c. 100 AD) - Medical Writer

Metrodora (c. 300 AD) - Physician

Pandrosion (c. 300 - 360 AD) - Mathematician

Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866 - 1952) - Physicist

Mercedes Doretti (1959 -) - Forensic Anthropologist

Cecilia Bouzat (1961 -) - Neuroscientist

Louisa Atkinson (1834 - 1872) - Botanist

Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967) - Medical Doctor and Educator

Jean Macnamara (1899 - 1968) - Medical Doctor

Dorothy Hill (1907 - 1997) - Geologist

Isobel Bennett (1909 - 2008) - Marine Biologist

Ruby Payne-Scott (1912 - 1981) - Radiophysicist

Ruth Sanger (1918 - 2001) - Haematologist and Serologist

Bridget Ogilvie (1938 -) - Parasitologist

Suzanne Cory (1942 -) - Biologist

Helen Quinn (1943 -) - Particle Physicist

Patricia Vickers-Rich (1944 -) - Palaeontologist

Valerie Beral (1946 - 2022) - Cancer Epidemiologist

Fiona Stanley (1946 -) - Epidemiologist and Public Health worker

Elizabeth Blackburn (1948 -) - Australian-American Molecular Biologist

Anne Dell (1950 -) - Biochemist

Penny Sackett (1956 -) - American-Australian Astronomer

Fiona Wood (1958 -) - British-Australian Plastic Surgeon

Amanda Barnard (1971 -) - Theoretical Physicist

Ida Freund (1863 - 1914) - University Chemistry Lecturer

Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) - Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist

Gabriele Rabel (1880 - 1963) - Physicist and Botanist

Marietta Blau (1894 - 1970) - Physicist

Hertha Wambacher (1903 - 1950) - Physicist

Berta Karlik (1904 - 1990) - Physicist

Irene K. Fischer (1907 - 2009) - Mathematician

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austro-Hungarian-Born American Inventor of Frequency Hopping

Noemie Benczer Koller (1933 -) - Austrian-Born Nuclear Physicist

Claire F. Gmachi (1967 -) - Electrical Engineer

Lisa Kaltenegger (1977 -) - Astronomer Focusing on the Search for Life

Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist

Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austro-Hungarian Inventor of Frequency Hopping

Tapputi-Belatekallim (c. 2000 BC) - Chemist

Marie-Anne Libert (1782 - 1865) - Botanist and Mycologist

Isala Van Diest (1842 - 1916) - Physician

Suzanne LeClercq (1901 - 1994) - Palaeobotanist

Myriam Sarachik (1933 - 2021) - Belgian-American Physicist

Ingrid Daubechies (1954 -) - Physicist and Mathematician

Sonia Alconini (1965 -) - Archaeologist

Marie Josefina Mathilde Durocher (1809 - 1893)- Obstetrician

Emilie Snethlage (1868 - 1929) - Naturalist and Ornithologist

Maria Carmela Lico (1927 - 1985) - Italian-Brazilian Physiologist and Behaviour Neuroscientist

Elinor Sneshell (c. 1593) - English Barber Surgeon

Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) - English Philosopher, Writer, and Publisher of Early Modern Science

Elizabeth Walker (1623 - 1690) - English Pharmacist

Eleanor Glanville (1654 - 1709) - English Entomologist

Jane Sharp (fl. 1671) - English Midwife

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) - English Pioneer of Modern Medicine by the Use of Variolation

Margaret Bryan (c.1759 - 1836) - English Author and Teacher

Amelia Griffiths (1768 - 1858) - English Phycologist

Jane Marcet (1769 - 1858) - English Writer of Popular Science Books

Etheldred Benett (1776 - 1845) - English Geologist

Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 - 1839) - English Adventurer and Archaeologist

Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778 - 1865) - British-Irish Botanist

Anna Maria Walker (c. 1778 - 1852) - Scottish Botanist

Elizabeth Philpot (1780 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist

Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Scottish Astronomer and Science Writer

Mary Anne Whitby (1784 - 1850) - English Silkworm Cultivator

Charlotte Murchison (1788 - 1869) - Scottish Geologist

Frances Acton (1794 - 1881) - English Botanist

Elizabeth Fulhame (c. 1794) - Scottish Chemist

Mary Buckland (1797 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist

Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) - English Fossil Collector and Palaeontologist

Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) - English Botanist and Photographer

Anna Maria Hussey (1805 - 1853) - English Mycologist

Elizabeth Twining (1805 - 1889) - English Botanical Illustrator

Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852) - English Mathematician

Elizabeth Carne (1817 - 1873) - English Geologist and Mineralogist

Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - English Statistician and Founder of Modern Nursing

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - British-American Physician

Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828 - 1901) - English Entomologist

Elizabeth Brown (1830 - 1899) - Astronomer

Isabella Bird (1831 - 1904) - English Explorer and Naturalist

Mary Everest Boole (1832 - 1916) - English Mathematician

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) - English Physician

Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 - 1912) - English Physician and Teacher

Marian Farquharson (1846 - 1912) - English Naturalist

Isis Pogson (1852 - 1945) - English Astronomer and Meteorologist

Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 - 1923) - English Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist, and Inventor

Annie Lorrain Smith (1854 - 1937) - English Lichenologist

Williamina Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Scottish Astronomer

Mary Adela Blagg (1858 - 1944) - English Astronomer

Grace Frankland (1858 - 1946) - English Microbiologist

Charlotte Scott (1858 - 1931) - English Mathematician

Margaret Crosfield (1859 - 1952) - English Palaeontologist

Margaret Fountaine (1862 - 1940) - English Lepidopterist

Margaret Alice Murray (1863 - 1963) - English Egyptologist, Archaeologist, and Anthropologist

Ethel Sargant (1863 - 1918) - English Botanist

Maria Gordon (1864 - 1939) - Scottish Geologist

Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) - English Natural Scientist

Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926) - English Explorer and Archaeologist

Philippa Fawcett (1868 - 1948) - English Mathematician

Grace Chisholm Young (1868 - 1944) - English Mathematician

Maud Cunnington (1869 - 1951) - Welsh Archaeologist

Ethel Shakespear (1871 - 1946) - English Geologist

Louisa Martindale (1872 - 1966) - English Physician and Surgeon

Nora Lilian Alcock (1874 - 1972) - English Plant Pathologist

Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874 - 1934) - English Surgeon

Edith Humphrey (1875 - 1978) - English Inorganic Chemist

Gabrielle Howard (1876 - 1930) - English Plant Physiologist

Alice Grace Cook (1877 - 1958) - English Astronomer

Florence Annie Yeldham (1877 - 1945) - English Mathematics Historian

Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951) - Welsh Palaeontologist

Theodora Lisle Prankerd (1878 - 1939) - English Botanist

Agnes Arber (1879 - 1960) -English Botanist

Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879 - 1967) English Botanist

Marie Stopes (1880 - 1958) - Palaeobotanist

Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880 - 1932) - English Biochemist

Evelyn Cheesman (1881 - 1969) - British Entomologist

Muriel Robertson (1883 - 1973) - Scottish Protozoologist and bacteriologist

Marjory Stephenson (1885 - 1948) - English Biochemist and Microbiologist

Eileen Hendriks (1887 - 1978) - English Geologist

Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888 - 1985) - English Archaeologist

Lucy Wills (1888 - 1964) - English Haematologist

Annie Meinertzhagen (1889 - 1928) - Scottish Ornithologist

Dorothy Garrod (1892 - 1968) - English Archaeologist

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894 - 1976) - English Mathematician and Biochemist

Maria Gordon (1896 - 1939) - Scottish Geologist and Palaeontologist

Sheina Marshall (1896 - 1977) - Scottish Marine Zoologist

Dorothy M. Needham (1896 - 1987) - English Biochemist

Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897 - 1931) - English Zoologist and herpetologist

Ann Bishop (1899 - 1990) - English Biologist and Parasitologist

Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899 - 2001)- Scottish Chemist

Helen Porter (1899 - 1987) - English Botanist

Janet Vaughan (1899 - 1993) - Physiologist

Mary L. Cartwright (1900 - 1998) - English Mathematician

Honor Fell (1900 - 1986) - English Developer of Tissue Culture

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchikin (1900 - 1979) - Astronomer and Astrophysicist

Isabella Gordon (1901 - 1988) - Scottish Marine Biologist

Marion Cameron Gray (1902 - 1979) - Scottish Mathematician

Sidnie Manton (1902 - 1979) - Entomologist and Zoologist

Mary Pickford (1902 - 2002) - Neuroendocrinologist

Edith Bülbring (1903 - 1990) - Pharmacologist

Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 - 1971) - Crystallographer

Bertha Swirles (1903 - 1999) - Physicist

Irene Manton (1904 - 1988) - Botanist

Kathleen Kenyon (1906 - 1978) - Archaeologist

F. Gwendolen Rees (1906 - 1994) - Welsh Zoologist and Parasitologist

Alice Stewart (1906 - 2002) - Physician and Epidemiologist

Joan du Plat Taylor (1906 – 1983) Archaeologist

Elsie Widdowson (1906 - 2000) - Dietitian

Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907 - 1990) - Biochemist

Mary Parke (1908 - 1989) - Marine Botanist

Miriam Rothschild (1908 - 2005) - Natural Scientist and Entomologist

Jacquetta Hawkes (1910 - 1996) - Archaeologist

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994) - Biochemist

Mary Leakey (1913 - 1996) - Paleoanthropologist

Winifred Pennington (1915 - 2007) - Limnologist and Biologist

Joan Curran (1916 – 1999) – Welsh Physicist

Joyce Lambert (1916 - 2005) - English Botanist and Stratigrapher

Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (1917 - 2003) - Endocrinologist and Biochemist

Sheila Sherlock (1918 - 2001) - Physician and Teacher

Margaret Burbidge (1919 - 2020) - Astrophysicist

Patricia H. Clarke (1919 - 2010) - Biochemist

Jean Hanson (1919 - 1973) - Biophysicist and Zoologist

Leslie Barnett (1920 - 2002) - Biologist

Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) - Biophysicist and X-Ray Crystallographer

Helen Muir (1920 - 2005) - Rheumatologist

Marjorie Sweeting (1920 - 1994) - Geomorphologist

Naomi Datta (1922 - 2008) - Geneticist and Bacteriologist

Brigitte Askonas (1923 - 2013) - Immunologist

Janet Watson (1923 - 1985) - Geologist

Olga Kennard (1924 - 2023) - Crystallographer

Mary Lee Woods (1924 - 2017) - Mathematician and Computer Programmer

Winifred Watkins (1924 - 2003) - Biochemist

Mary Lyon (1925 - 2014) - Geneticist

Jannette Anderson (1927 - 2002) - Scottish Biologist and Educator

Anne McLaren (1927 - 2007) - Developmental Biologist and Geneticist

Margaret Rule (1928 – 2015) - Archaeologist

June Almeida (1930 - 2007) - Scottish Virologist, Histologist and Imager

Daphne Osborne (1930 - 2006) - Botanist and Plant Physiologist

Margaret M. Perry (1930 - 2009) - Molecular Geneticist

Elizabeth Warrington (1931 -) - Neuropsychologist

Jane Goodall (1934 - 2025) - Primatologist, Anthropologist, and Ethologist

Patricia Jacobs (1934 -) - Scottish Geneticist

Noreen Murray (1935 - 2011) - Molecular Geneticist

Karen Sparck Jones (1935 - 2007) - Computer Scientist

Rosemary Grant (1936 -) - Evolutionary Biologist

Daphne Jackson (1936 - 1991) - Nuclear Physicist

Lorna Casselton (1938 - 2014) - Biologist and Mycologist

Louise Johnson (1940 - 2012) - Biochemist and Protein Crystallographer

Anne Warner (1940 - 2012) - Biologist

Carole Jordan (1941 - 2026) - Astronomer

Dianne Edwards (1942 -) - Welsh Palaeobotanist

Julia Higgins (1942 -) - Polymer Scientist

Meave Leakey (1942 -) - Paleoanthropologist

Jean Thomas (1942 -) - Welsh Chemist

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -) - Northern Irish Astrophysicist

Deborah Charlesworth (1943 -) - Evolutionary Biologist

Brigid Hogan (1943 -) –British-American Developmental Biologist

Marian Dawkins (1945 -) - Biologist

Judith Howard (1945 -) - Biochemist and Crystallographer

Philippa Marrack (1945 -) - Biologist and Immunologist

Dusa McDuff (1945 -) - Mathematician

Cheryll Tickle (1945 -) - Developmental Biologist

Veronica van Heyningen (1946 -) - Geneticist

Elizabeth Anionwu (1947 -) Nurse

Jenny Clack (1947 - 2020) - Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist

Janet Darbyshire (1947 -) - Epidemiologist and Science Administrator

Phyllis Starkey (1947 -) - Biomedical Researcher

Barbara Pearse (1948 -) - Biologist

Heather Couper (1949 - 2020) - Astronomer

Sally Davies (1949 -) - Chief Medical Officer for England 2010-2019

Janet Thornton (1949 -) - Bioinformatician

Jean Beggs (1950 -) - Geneticist

Jane Clarke (1950 -) - Biochemist

Linda Partridge (1950 -) - Geneticist

Janet Rossant (1950 -) – English Developmental Biologist

Susan Blackmore (1951 -) - Author

Kay Davies (1951-)- Geneticist

Susan Greenfield (1951-) - Neurologist

Anne Mills (1951 -) - Health Economist

Frances Ashcroft (1952 -) - Geneticist and Physiologist

Ann Dowling (1952 -) - Mechanical Engineer

Anita Harding (1952 - 1995) - Irish-British Neuroscientist

Athene Donald (1953 -) - Physicist

Georgina Mace (1953 - 2020) - Conservational Biologist

Susan Mary Rees (1953 -) - Mathematician

Lesley Jane Yellowlees (1953 -) - Chemist

Joanna Haigh (1954 -) - Physicist

Christine Holt (1954 -) - Developmental Neuroscientist

Anne O’Garra (1954 -) - Immunologist

Nancy Rothwell (1955 -) - Pathologist

Gillian Bates (1956 -) - Biologist

Rosa Beddington (1956 - 2001) - Developmental Biologist

A. Catrina Coleman (1956 -) - Scottish Electrical Engineer

Carol V. Robinson (1956 -) Chemist

Fiona Watt (1956 -) - Biologist

Janet Hemingway (1957 -) - Vector Biologist

Doreen Cantrell (1957 -) - Scottish Immunologist

Elizabeth Robertson (1957 -) - Developmental Biologist

Karen Vousden (1957 -) - Medical Researcher

Sophie Wilson (1957 -) - Computer Scientist

Fiona Wood (1958 -) - British-Australian Plastic Surgeon

Frances Kirwan (1959 -) - Mathematician

Elizabeth Simpson (fl. 1960s) - Biologist and Immunologist

Sue Black (1961 -) - Scottish Forensic Anthropologist

Lynn Gladden (1961 -) - Chemical Engineer

Carole Goble (1961 -) - Computer Scientist

Michele Dougherty (1962-) - Astrophysicist

Sarah Gilbert (1962 -) - Vaccinologist

Fiona Powrie (1963 -) - Immunologist

Helen Sharman (1963 -) - Chemist

Mandy Chessell (1965 -) - Engineer and Computer Scientist

Edith Heard (1965 -) – British-French Geneticist

Maggie Aderin-Pocock (1968 -) Space scientist

Patricia Simpson (fl. 1970s) - Developmental Biologist

Ruth Lawrence (1971 -) - British-Israeli Mathematician

Karen Masters (1979 -) - Astrophysicist

Amanda Gay Fisher (fl. 1980s) - Cell Biologist

Nicola Pellow (fl. 1990s) - Computer Scientist

Margaret A. Stanley (fl. 1990s -) - Virologist and Epithelial Biologist

Karen P. Steel (fl. 2000s) - Biologist

Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897 - 1968) - Physicist

MiMi Aung (1968 -) - Burmese-American Engineer

Aye Nyein Thu (1995 -) - Doctor

Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Physician

Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Medical Author

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji (fl. 2000s) - Cameroonian Virologist and Ethics Campaigner

Alice Eastwood (1859 - 1953) - Botanist

Carrie Derick (1862 - 1941) - Geneticist and Botanist

Elizabeth Laird (1874 - 1969) - Physicist

Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) - Nuclear Physicist

Maud Menten (1879 - 1960) - Physician

Alice Wilson (1881 - 1964) - Geologist and Palaeontologist

Elsie MacGill (1905 - 1980) - Aeronautical Engineer

Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914 - 2015) - Pharmacologist

Irene Ayako Uchida (1917 - 2013) - Down Syndrome Researcher

Brenda Milner (1918 -) - Neuropsychologist

Ursula Franklin (1921 - 2016) - Metallurgist and Physicist

Yvonne Brill (1924 - 2013) - Rocket Scientist

Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929 -( Canadian-American Mathematician and computer scientist

Patricia Cladis (1937 - 2017) - Physicist and Mathematician

Lorella M. Jones (1943 - 1995) - Physicist

Evelyn Nelson (1943 - 1987) - Mathematician

Roberta Bondar (1945 -) - Neurologist

Birutė Galdikas (1946 -) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist

Shirley Tilghman (1946 -) - Molecular Biologist

Margaret Chan (1947 -) - Chinese-Canadian Former Director of WHO

Melissa Franklin (1956 -) - Particle Physicist

Claudia Alexander (1958 - 2015) - Canadian-American Geophysicist

Donna Strickland (1959 -) - Physicist

Victoria Kaspi (1967 -) - Astrophysicist

Sara Seager (1971 -) - Canadian-American Astronomer and Planetary Scientist

María Teresa Ruis (1946 -) - Astronomer

Chunyu Yan (c. 1st Century BC) - Gynaecologist

Fang (c. 1st Century BC) - Alchemist

Bao Gu (fl. 4th Century AD) - Physician

Keng Hsien-Seng (c. 975) - Alchemist

Sun Bu’er (c. 1119 - 1182) - Chemist

Tan Yunxian (1461 - 1554) - Physician

Wang Zhenyi (1768 - 1797) - Astronomer and Mathematician

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997) - Experimental Physicist

Xie Xide (1921 - 2000) - Physicist

Tu Youyou (1930 -) - Pharmaceutical Chemist

Sau Lan Wu (1940s -) – Chinese-American Physicist

Margaret Chan (1947 -) - Chinese-Canadian Director-General of WHO 2007- 2017

Gloria Galeano Garcés (1958 – 2016) - Botanist

Josephine Kablick (1787 - 1863) - Botanist and Palaeontologist

Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist

Gerty Cori (1896 - 1957) – Czech-America Biochemist

Joy Adamson (1910 - 1980) – Naturalist and Author

Sophia Brahe (1556 - 1643) - Horticulturalist

Kirstine Meyer (1861 - 1941) - Physicist

Inge Lehmann (1888 - 1993) - Seismologist

Julie Vinter Hansen (1890 - 1960) - Astronomer

Lene Hau (1959 -) - Physicist

Gitte Moos Knudsen (1959 -) - Neurobiologist

Anja Cetti Anderson (1965 -) - Astrophysicist and Author

Idelisa Bonnelly (1931 - 2022) - Marine Biologist

Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723 - 1786) - Poet and Physical Scientist

Jacoba van den Brande (1735 - 1794) - Founder of the 1st All-Female Science Academy in the World

Jantina Tammes (1871 - 1947) - Botanist and Geneticist

Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasyeva (1876 - 1964) - Russian-Dutch Mathematician

Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (1885 - 1973) - Physicist

Lili Bleeker (1897 - 1985) - Physicist

Bea Schwarz (1898 - 1969) - Phytopathologist

Christine Buisman (1900 - 1936) - Phytopathologist

Anneke Levelt Sengers (1929 -) - Physicist

Carolyne Van Vliet (1929 - 2016) - Dutch Born American Physicist

Paulien Hogeweg (1943 - ) - Theoretical Biologist

Marjolein Kriek (1973 -) - Clinical Geneticist

Eugenia Maria del Pino Veintimilla (1945 -) - Developmental Biologist

Sameera Moussa (1917 - 1952) - Nuclear Physicist

Fawzia Fahim (1931 -) - Biochemist

Tiiu Kull (1958 -) - Botanist

Marie de Brimeu (c.1550-1605) - Botanist

Alexandra Smirnoff (1838 - 1913) - Pomologist

Liisi Oterma (1915 – 2001) - Astronomer

Herrad of Landsberg (c. 1130 - 1195) - Alsatian Nun and Theologian

Magistra Hersend (c. 1249 - 1259) - Surgeon and Royal Physician

Dame Péronelle (1292 - 1319) - Herbalist

Peretta Peronne (fl. 1411) - Surgeon

Guillemette du Luys (fl. 1479) - Surgeon

Catherine de Parthenay (1554 - 1631) - Mathematician

Louise Bourgeois Boursier (1563 - 1636) - Midwife

Martine Bertereau (c. 1600 - after 1642) - Mineralogist

Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 - 1680) - Chemist and Alchemist

Marie Crous (fl. 1640) - Mathematician; Introduced Decimal System to France

Marguerite de la Sabliere (1640 - 1693) - Hostess and Patron of Poets, Scientists and Writers

Jeanne Dumée (1660 - 1706) - Astronomer

Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749) - Mathematician and Physicist

Marie Marguerite Bihéron (1719 - 1795) - Anatomist and Illustrator

Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720 - 1805) - Chemist

Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1792) - Astronomer and Mathematician

Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724 - 1767) - Mathematician

Jeanne Baret (1740 - 1807) - Explorer and Botanist

Louise du Pierry (1746 - 1791) - Astronomer and Professor

Marie Le Masson Le Golft (1749 - 1826) - Naturalist

Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1758 - 1836) - Chemist

Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande (1768 - 1832) - Astronomer and Mathematician

Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769 - 1821) - Midwife and Gynaecologist

Marie Boivin (1773 - 1841) - Midwife and Inventor

Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - Mathematician and Physicist

Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794 - 1871) - Marine Biologist

Marie Pasteur (1826 - 1910) - Laboratory Assistant

Clémence Royer (1830 - 1902) - French Translator of On the Origin of Species

Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish-French Physicist and Chemist

Raymonde de Laroche (1882 - 1919) - Engineer and Pilot

Irene Joliot-Curie (1897 - 1956) - Physicist and Chemist

Yvette Cauchois (1908 - 1999) - Physicist

Marguerite Perey (1909 - 1975) - Physicist

Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922 - 2017) - Mathematician

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923 - 2025) - Mathematician and Physicist

Marthe Gautier (1925 - 2022) Physician

Janine Connes (1926 - 2024) - Astronomer

Magda Ericson (1929 -) - Nuclear Physicist

Christiane Bonnelle (1930 - 2016) - Physicist

Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930 -) - Developmental Biologist

Monique Adolphe (1932 - 2022) - Cell Biologist

Catherine Brechigac (1946 -) - Physicist

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947 -) - Virologist

Polly Matzinger (1947 -) - Immunologist

Pascale Cossart (1948 -) - Bacteriologist

Anne L’ Huillier (1958 -) -Swedish Physicist

Edith Heard (1965 -) – British-French Geneticist

Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968 -) - Geneticist, Developer of CRISPR

Hildegard of Bingen (1099 - 1179) - Philosopher and Polymath

Agatha Streicher (1520 - 1581) - Physician

Helena Magenbuch (1523 - 1597) - Pharmacist

Maria Cunitz (1610 - 1664) - German-Polish Astronomer

Justine Siegemund (1636 - 1705) - Midwife

Elisabeth Hevelius (1647 - 1693) - German-Polish Astronomer

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) - Naturalist and Scientific Illustrator

Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670 - 1720) - Astronomer

Maria Clara Eimmart (1676 - 1707) - Astronomer

Christine Kirch (1696 - 1782) - Astronomer

Dorothea Erxleben (1715 - 1762) –1st Female Medical Doctor in Germany

Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848) - Astronomer

Amalie Dietrich (1821 - 1891) - Naturalist

Johanna Mestorf (1828 - 1909) - Archaeologist

Maria Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829 - 1902) - Physician

Agnes Pockels (1862 - 1935) - Chemist

Emilie Snethlage (1868 - 1929) - Naturalist and Ornithologist

Clara Immerwahr (1870 - 1915) - Chemist

Margarete Kahn (1880 - 1942) - Mathematician

Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) - Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist

Hedwig Kohn (1887 - 1964) - Physicist

Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1893 - 1973) - German-American Pathologist

Hertha Sponer (1895 - 1968) - Physicist

Ida Noddack (1896 - 1978) - Chemist and Physicist

Tilly Edinger (1897 - 1967) - Palaeontologist

Katherine Esau (1898 - 1997) - Botanist

Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) - Embryologist

Charlotte Auerbach (1899 - 1994) - Zoologist and Geneticist

Grete Hermann (1901 - 1984) - Mathematician and Philosopher

Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903 - 1974) - Mathematician and Engineer

Maria Reiche (1903 - 1998) - Archaeologist

Marthe Vogt (1903 - 2003) - Neuroscientist

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906 - 1972) - Theoretical Physicist

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907 - 2007) - German-American Geneticist

Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911 - 1998) - Nuclear Physicist

Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915 - 1981) - Physicist

Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922 - 2010) - Metallurgist

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926 - 2012) - Nuclear Physicist

Inge Schmitz Fuerhake1935 - Physicist

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942 -) - Developmental Biologist and Geneticist

Hannah Monyer (1957 -) - Neurobiologist

Ulrike Tillmann (1962 -) - Mathematician

Antje Boetius1967 - Marine Biologist

Dilek Gürsoy (1976 -) Heart Surgeon

Kathrin Bringmann (1977 -) - Mathematician

Aspasia the Physician (c. 400 AD) - Midwife and Gynaecologist

Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971 -) – Theoretical Physicist

Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist

Zsofia Torma (1832 - 1899) - Archaeologist, Anthropologist and Paleontologist

Elizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981) - -American Chemist

Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician

Maria Telkes (1900 - 1995) - Inventor in Solar Energy

Rozsa Peter (1905 - 1977) - Mathematician

Klára Dán von Neumann (1911 - 1963) - Hungarian-American Computer Programmer

Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austro-Hungarian Inventor of Frequency Hopping

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 -) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician

Katalin Karikó (1955 -) Hungarian-American Biochemist

Elsa G. Vilmundardóttir (1932 - 2008) - Geologist

E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897 - 1984) - Botanist

Kamala Sohonie (1912 - 1998) - Biochemist

Asima Chatterjee (1917 – 2006) - Organic chemist

Kamal Ranadive (1917 - 2001) - Biomedical Scientist

Anna Mani (1918 - 2001) - Meteorologist and Physicist

Darshan Ranganathan (1941 - 2001) - Organic Chemist

Kalpana Chawla (1962 - 2003) - Aerospace Engineer

Priyamvada Natarajan (1969 -) - Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist

Sirisha Bandla (1987 -) - Indian - American Aeronautical Engineer

Ālenush Teriān (1920 - 2011) - Astronomer

Mina Bissell (1940 -) - Iranian-American Breast Cancer Researcher

Anousheh Ansari (1966 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

Pardis Sabeti (1975 -) - Iranian-American Computational Biologist

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) - Mathematician, 1st Female Winner of the Fields Medal

Niloufar Bayani (1986 -) - Conservational Biologist

Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778 - 1865) - British-Irish Botanist

Ellen Hutchins (1785 - 1815) - Botanist

Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808 - 1872) - Algologist, Botanist, and Illustrator

Mary Ball (1812 - 1892) - Entomologist

Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907) - Astronomer

Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins (1848 - 1915) - Astronomer and Pioneer in Spectroscopy

Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868 - 1947) - Astronomer and Mathematician

Edith Anne Stoney (1869 - 1938) - Physicist

Alice Perry (1885 - 1969) - Civil Engineer

Helen Megaw (1907 - 2002) - Crystallographer

Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Antonelli (1921 - 2006) - Computer Programmer

Yvonne Barr (1932 - 2016) - Virologist and Co-Discoverer of EBV

Anita Harding (1952 - 1995) - Irish-British Neuroscientist

Eleanor Maguire (1970 -) - Neuroscientist and Memory Researcher

Bruria Kaufman (1918 - 2010) - Theoretical Physicist

Ruth Arnon (1933 -) - Biochemist

Ada E. Yonath (1939 -) - Crystallographer

Rivka Carmi (1948 -) - Paediatrician and Geneticist

Shafi Goldwasser1959 - Israeli-American Computer scientist

Daphne Koller (1968 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist

Ruth Lawrence (1971 -) - British-Israeli Mathematician

Antiochis of Tios (c. 1st Century AD) - Roman Physician

Adelle of the Saracens (c. 12th Century) - Physician and Teacher

Trota di Ruggiero/Ladies of Salerno (c. 12-13th Century) - A Group of Female Physicians and Medical Writers

Abella of Salerno (c. 14th century) - Physician and Teacher

Adelmota of Carrara (c. 14th Century) - Physician and Obstetrician

Mercuriade (c. 14th Century) - Surgeon and Medical Author

Rebecca de Guarna (c. 14th Century) - Surgeon

Alessandra Giliani (c. 1307 - 1326) - Pathologist

Jacobina Félice de Almania (fl. 1322 Century) - Physician

Dorotea Bucca (1360 - 1436) - Physician and Chair of Medicine (University of Bologna)

Constance Calenda (c. 1415) - Eye Surgeon

Gentile Budrioli (d. 1498) - Astrologer

Clarice di Durisio (c. 15th Century)- Physician

Isabella Cortese (c.1561) - Alchemist

Loredana Marcello (c. 1572) - Botanist

Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 -1777) - Mathematician

Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778) - 1st Woman to Earn a University Chair in a Scientific Field

Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716 - 1774) - Anatomist

Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 - 1799)- Mathematician and Philosopher

Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728 - 1825) - Translator, Mathematician and Physicist

Cristina Roccati (1732 - 1797) - Teacher of Physics

Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (1743 - 1788) - Laboratory Scientist

Maria Petraccini (1759 - 1791) - Anatomist and Physician

Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (1760 - 1830) - Botanist

Maria Medina Coeli (1764 - 1846) - Physician and Inventor

Maria Dalle Donne (1778 - 1842) - Physician and Director at the University of Bologna

Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785) - Mathematician

Caterina Scarpellini (1808 - 1873) - Astronomer

Jole Bovio Marconi (1897 - 1986) - Archaeologist

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) - Neurologist

Giuliana Tesoro (1921 - 2002) - Italian-American Chemist

Margherita Hack (1922 - 2013) - Physicist and Writer

Milla Baldo-Ceolin (1924 - 2011) - Particle Physicist

Mathilde Krim (1926 - 2018) - AIDs researcher

Maria Carmela Lico (1927 - 1985) - Italian-Brazilian Physiologist and Behaviour Neuroscientist

Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928 - 1984) - Italian-American Experimental Nuclear Physicist

Daniela Rhodes (1946 -)- Molecular Biologist

Chiara Nappi (1951 -) - Physicist

Adriana Albini (1955 -) Pathologist

Maria Abbracchio (1956 -) - Pharmacologist

Maria Spillantini (1957 -) - Molecular Neurologist

Fabiola Gianotti (1962 -) - Particle Physicist

Samantha Cristoforetti (1977 - ) Astronaut

Kono Yasui (1880 - 1971) - Biologist

Michiyo Tsujimura (1888 - 1969) - Biochemist

Katsuko Saruhashi (1920 - 2007) - Geochemist

Tomoko Ohta (1933 -) - Geneticist

Yuki Okoda (fl. 2000s) - Astronomer

Lubna Hamid Tawfiq Tahtamouni (1976 -) - Developmental Biologist

Florence Wambugu (1953 -) - Plant Pathologist and Virologist

Margaret Ogola (1958 - 2011) - Paediatrician and Author

Jang-Geum (c. 1474 - 1550) - Physician

Lidija Liepiņa (1891 - 1985) - Chemist

Madga Staudinger (1902 - 1997) - Biologist

Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994) - Archaeologist

Birutė Galdikas (1946 -) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist

Mazlan Othman (1951 -) - Astrophysicist

Caterina Vitale (1566 - 1619) - Pharmacist

Evangelina Villegas (1924 – 2017) - Biochemist

Susana López Charretón (1959 -) - Virologist

Zulema L’Astrologa (c. 1190 - 1229) - Astronomer

Greta Stevenson (1911 - 1990) - Mycologist

Vivienne Cassie Cooper (1926 – 2021) - Botanist

Jan Anderson (1932 - 2015) - Biochemist

Patricia Bergquist (1933 – 2009) - Zoologist

Beatrice Tinsley (1941 - 1981) - Astronomer and Cosmologist

Grace Alele-Williams (1932 – 2022) - Mathematics lecturer

Grace Oladunni Taylor (1937 - 2025) - Biochemist

Deborah Ajakaiye (1940 -) - Physicist

Rabia Salihu Sa’id (1963 -) - Atmospheric Physicist

Olanike Adeyemo (1970 -) - Veterinarian

Emily Arnesen (1876 - 1928) - Zoologist

Ellen Gleditsch (1879 - 1968) - Radiochemist

Anne Stine Ingstad (1918 - 1997) - Archaeologist

May-Britt Moser (1963 -) - Neuroscientist

Sania Nishtar (1963 -) - Physician

Tasneem Zehra Husain (fl. 1990s) - Theoretical Physicist

Afra Karim (1995 - 2012) - Computer Prodigy

Ruth Shady (1946 -) - Archaeologist

Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish-French Physicist and Chemist

Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 – 2015) - Paleobiologist

Halszka Osmolska (1930 - 2008) - Palaeontologist

Teresa Maryańska (1937 – 2019) - Palaeontologist

Manuela Maria Veloso (1957 -) - Computer Scientist

Nitza Margarita Cintrón (1950 -) - Chief of Space Medicine at NASA Johnson Space Center

Ana Aslan (1897 - 1988) - Physician and Biologist

Daniela L. Rus (fl. 1990s) - Roboticist, Pioneer in A.I.

Anna Volkova (c. 1800 - 1876) - Chemist

Praskovya Uvarova (1840 - 1924) - Archaeologist

Varvara Kashevarova Rudneva (1844 - 1899) - Physician

Elizaveta Litvinova (1845 - 1919?) - Mathematician

Julia Lermontova (1946 - 1919) - Chemist

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) - Mathematician

Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (1856 - 1916) - Chemist

Vera Popova (1867 - 1896) - Chemist

Olga Lepeshinskaya (1871 - 1963) - Biologist

Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasyeva (1876 - 1964) - Russian-Dutch Mathematician

Vera Danchakoff (1879 - 1950) - Cell Biologist

Maria Klenova (1898 - 1976) - Marine Geologist

Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899 - 1999) - Mathematician

Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909 - 1997) - Physicist

Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004) - Mathematician

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937 -) - Cosmonaut

Renata Kallosh (1943 -) –Theoretical Physicist

Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946 -) - Russian/UkrainianAstronomer

Rufaida Al-Aslamia (c. 620 AD) –Nurse

Hayat Sindi (1967 -) – Medical Researcher

Yasmin Ahmed Almubarak Altwaijri (fl. 2000s) - Epidemiologist

Mileva Maric (1875 - 1948) - Physicist

Gertrud Theiler (1897 - 1986) - Parasitologist

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 - 2004) - Palaeontologist

Tikvah Alper (1909 - 1995) - Physicist and Radiobiologist

Jeong Eun-kyeong (1965 -) Public Health Expert

María de los Ángeles Alvariño González (1916 – 2005) - Oceanographer

Margarita Salas (1938 - 2019) - Biochemist and Molecular Geneticist

Asha de Vos (1979 -) - Marine Biologist

Anna Ȧkerhielm (1647 - 1698) - Writer and Traveller

Charlotta Frölich (1698 - 1770) - Agronomist

Eva Ekeblad (1724 - 1786) - Agronomist

Maria Christina Bruhn (1732 - 1802) - Inventor of Gunpowder Packaging

Elsa Beata Bunge (1734 - 1819) - Botanist

Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743 - 1782) - Botanist

Maria Jansson (Kisamor) (1788 - 1842) - Natural Doctor

Anna Sundström (1795 - 1871) - Chemist

Lovisa Åhrberg (1801 - 1881) - Surgeon

Amalia Assur (1803 - 1889) - Dentist

Hanna Hammarström (1829 - 1909) - Inventor (Telephone wire) and Industrialist

Emmy Rappe (1835 - 1896) - Nurse

Johanna Heden (1837 - 1912) - Midwife and Barber Surgeon

Rosalie Fougelberg (1841 - 1911) - Dentist

Louise Hammarström (1849 - 1917) - Chemist

Karolina Widerström (1856 - 1949) - Physician

Hedda Andersson (1861 - 1950) - Physician

Anna Stecksen (1870 - 1904) - Physician and Pathologist

Ninni Kronberg (1874 - 1946) - Physiologist and Nutritionist

Astrid Cleve (1875 - 1968) - Botanist, Geologist and Chemist

Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) - Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist

Hanna Rydh (1891 - 1964) - Archaeologist

Anne L’ Huillier (1958 -) French-Swedish Physicist

Maria Lullin (1751 - 1822) - Entomologist

Gerta Keller (1945 -) - Paleontologist

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 -) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician

Mariann Bienz (1953 -) - Molecular Biologist

Al-'Ijiyyah bint al-'Ijliyy (c.10th Century) - Astronomer

Safaa Kumari (1962 -) - Plant Virologist

Fan Chung (1949 -) - Taiwanese-American Mathematician

Audrey Tang (1981 -) - Computer Programmer

Julie Makani (1970 -) - Biomedical Researcher

Salinee Tavaranan (fl. 2000s) - Mechanical Engineer

Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Byzantine Physician

Halet Çambel (1916 – 2014) - Archaeologist

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (1970 -) - Veterinarian and Conservationist

Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Byzantine Medical Author

Kateryna Yushchenko (1919 - 2001) - Computer Scientist

Olga Oleinik (1925 – 2001) - Mathematician

Lyudmila Zhuravleva1946 - Russian/UkrainianAstronomer

Maryna Viazovska (1984 -) - Mathematician

Anastasia Volkova (1991 -) - Agricultural Scientist

Evelyn Miralles (1966 -) - Computer Engineer

Jane Luu (1963 -) - Vietnamese-American Astronomer