The Original List
Here you will find the original list of every female scientist we aim to document.
Please note this page is (as it should be) updated regularly.
Is your favourite scientist missing from this list? Check they meet the criteria (there is only two: a person who does not identify as male and has made a contribution to science) then send me their details using the contact button at the top of the page.
As the blog progresses, hyperlinks to each entry will be activated.
Scientists are categorised here by their year of birth
The Ancient World
1. Peseshet (c. 2500 BC) - Ancient Egyptian Physician
2. Tapputi-Belatekallim (c. 2000 BC) - Babylonian Chemist
3. Agamede (c. 1200 BC) - Ancient Greek Physician
4. Theano (c. 600 BC) - Ancient Greek Pythagorean Philosopher
5. Agnodice (c. 400 BC) - Ancient Greek Physician, Midwife, and Gynaecologist
6. Pythias the Elder (c. 381 - 326 BC) - Ancient Greek Biologist
7. Aglaonice (c. 200 BC) - Cited as the 1st Female Astronomer in Ancient Greece
8. Chunyu Yan (c. 1st Century BC) - Chinese Gynaecologist
9. Fang (c. 1st Century BC) - Chinese Alchemist
10. Antiochis of Tios (c. 1st Century BC) - Roman Physician
11. Cleopatra the Physician (c. 100 AD) - Ancient Greek Medical Writer
12. Mary the Prophetess (c. 100 - 300 AD) - Ancient Egyptian Alchemist
13. Metrodora (c. 300 AD) - Ancient Greek Physician
14. Cleopatra the Alchemist (c. 3rd Century AD) - Ancient Egyptian Alchemist, and Author
15. Aemilia Hilaria (c. 300 - 363 AD) - Gallo-Roman Physician
16. Pandrosion (c. 300 - 360 AD) - Ancient Greek Mathematician
17. Hypatia (c. 355 - 415 AD) - Alexandrian Philosopher and Mathematician
18. Aspasia the Physician (c. 400 AD) - Greek Midwife and Gynaecologist
19. Bao Gu (fl. 4th Century AD) - Chinese Physician
The Middle Ages
20. Rufaida Al-Aslamia (c. 620 AD) - Saudi Nurse
21. Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (c.10th Century) - Syrian Astronomer and Astrolabe Maker
22. Keng Hsien-Seng (c. 975) - Chinese Alchemist
23. Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Byzantine Physician
24. Hildegard of Bingen (1099 - 1179) - German Philosopher and Polymath
25. Adelle of the Saracens (c. 12th Century) - Italian Physician and Teacher
26. Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Byzantine Medical Author
27. Sun Bu’er (c. 1119 - 1182) Chinese Chemist
28. Herrad of Landsberg (c. 1130 - 1195) - Alsatian Nun and Theologian
29. Zulema L’Astrologa (c. 1190 - 1229) - Moorish Astronomer
30. Trota di Ruggiero/Ladies of Salerno (c. 12-13th Century) - A Group of Female Physicians and Medical Writers
31. Magistra Hersend (c. 1249 - 1259) - French Surgeon and Royal Physician
32. Dame Péronelle (1292 - 1319) - French Herbalist
33. Abella of Salerno (c. 14th century) - Italian Physician and Teacher
34. Adelmota of Carrara (c. 14th Century) - Italian Physician and Obstetrician
35. Mercuriade (c. 14th Century) - Italian Surgeon and Medical Author
36. Rebecca de Guarna (c. 14th Century) - Italian Surgeon
37. Alessandra Giliani (c. 1307 - 1326) - Italian Pathologist
38. Jacobina Félice de Almania (fl. 1322 Century) - Italian Physician
39. Dorotea Bucca (1360 - 1436) - Italian Physician and Chair of Medicine (University of Bologna)
40. Peretta Peronne (fl. 1411) - French Surgeon
41. Constance Calenda (c. 1415) - Italian Eye Surgeon
42. Tan Yunxian (1461 - 1554) - Chinese Physician
43. Jang-Geum (c. 1474 - 1550) - Korean Physician
44. Guillemette du Luys (fl. 1479) - French Surgeon
45. Gentile Budrioli (d. 1498) - Italian Astrologer
46. Clarice di Durisio (c. 15th Century)- Italian Physician
16th Century
47. Agatha Streicher (1520 - 1581) - German Physician
48. Helena Magenbuch (1523 - 1597) - German Pharmacist
49. Marie de Brimeu (c.1550-1605) - Finnish Botanist
50. Catherine de Parthenay (1554 - 1631) - French Mathematician
51. Sophia Brahe (1556 - 1643) - Danish Horticulturalist
52. Isabella Cortese (c.1561) - Italian Alchemist
53. Louise Bourgeois Boursier (1563 - 1636) - French Midwife
54. Caterina Vitale (1566 - 1619) - Maltese Pharmacist
55. Loredana Marcello (c. 1572) - Italian Botanist
56. Elinor Sneshell (c. 1593) - English Barber Surgeon
17th Century
57. Martine Bertereau (c. 1600 - after 1642) - French Mineralogist
58. Maria Cunitz (1610 - 1664) - German-Polish Astronomer
59. Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 - 1680) - French Chemist and Alchemist
60. Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) - English Philosopher, Writer, and Publisher of Early Modern Science
61. Elizabeth Walker (1623 - 1690) - English Pharmacist
62. Justine Siegemund (1636 - 1705) - German Midwife
63. Marie Crous (fl. 1640) - French Mathematician; Introduced the Decimal System to France
64. Marguerite de la Sabliere (1640 - 1693) - French Hostess and Patron of Poets, Scientists and Writers
65. Anna Ȧkerhielm (1647 - 1698) - Swedish Writer and Traveller
66. Elisabeth Hevelius (1647 - 1693) - German-Polish Astronomer
67. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) - German Naturalist and Scientific Illustrator
68. Eleanor Glanville (1654 - 1709) - English Entomologist
69. Jeanne Dumée (1660 - 1706) - French Astronomer
70. Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670 - 1720) - German Astronomer
71. Jane Sharp (fl. 1671) - English Midwife
72. Sybilla Masters (1675 - 1720) - American Inventor of the Corn Mill
73. Maria Clara Eimmart (1676 - 1707) - German Astronomer
74. Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 -1777) - Italian Mathematician
75. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) - English Pioneer of Modern Medicine by the Use of Variolation
76. Christine Kirch (1696 - 1782) - German Astronomer
77. Charlotta Frölich (1698 - 1770) - Swedish Agronomist
18th Century
78. Martha Daniell Logan (1704 - 1779) - American Botanist
79. Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749) - French Mathematician and Physicist
80. Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778) - 1st Woman to Earn a University Chair in a Scientific Field
81. Dorothea Erxleben (1715 - 1762) - German 1st Female Medical Doctor in Germany
82. Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716 - 1774) - Italian Anatomist
83. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 - 1799)- Italian Mathematician and Philosopher
84. Marie Marguerite Bihéron (1719 - 1795) - French Anatomist and Illustrator
85. Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720 - 1805) - French Chemist
86. Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722 - 1793) - American Agriculturist
87. Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1792) - French Astronomer and Mathematician
88. Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723 - 1786) - Dutch Poet and Physical Scientist
89. Jane Colden (1724 - 1766) - American Botanist
90. Eva Ekeblad (1724 - 1786 ) - Swedish Agronomist
91. Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724 - 1767) - French Mathematician
92. Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728 - 1825) - Italian Translator, Mathematician and Physicist
93. Maria Christina Bruhn (1732 - 1802) - Swedish Inventor of Gunpowder Packaging
94. Cristina Roccati (1732 - 1797) - Italian Teacher of Physics
95. Elsa Beata Bunge (1734 - 1819) - Swedish Botanist
96. Jacoba van den Brande (1735 - 1794) - Dutch Founder of the 1st All-Female Science Academy in the World
97. Jeanne Baret (1740 - 1807) - French Explorer and Botanist
98. Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (1743 - 1788) - Italian Laboratory Scientist
99. Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743 - 1782) - Swedish Botanist
100. Louise du Pierry (1746 - 1791) - French Astronomer and Professor
101. Marie Le Masson Le Golft (1749 - 1826) - French Naturalist
102. Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848) - German Astronomer
103. Maria Lullin (1751 - 1822) - Swiss Entomologist
104. Mary Kies (1752 - 1837) - American Inventor - weaving
105. Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755 - 1814) - Possible Contributor to the Invention of Cotton Gin with Eli Whitney
106. Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1758 - 1836) - French Chemist
107. Maria Petraccini (1759 - 1791) - Italian Anatomist and Physician
108. Margaret Bryan (c.1759 - 1836) - English Author and Teacher
109. Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (1760 - 1830) - Italian Botanist
110. Maria Medina Coeli (1764 - 1846) - Italian Physician and Inventor
111. Amelia Griffiths (1768 - 1858) - English Phycologist
112. Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande (1768 - 1832) - French Astronomer and Mathematician
113. Wang Zhenyi (1768 - 1797) - Chinese Astronomer and Mathematician
114. Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769 - 1821) - French Midwife and Gynaecologist
115. Jane Marcet (1769 - 1858) - English Writer of Popular Science Books
116. Marie Boivin (1773 - 1841) - French Midwife and Inventor
117. Hannah Slater (1774 - 1812) - American Inventor - Cotton Sewing Thread
118. Etheldred Benett (1776 - 1845) - English Geologist
119. Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - French Mathematician and Physicist
120. Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 - 1839) - English Adventurer and Archaeologist
121. Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778 - 1865) - British-Irish Botanist
122. Maria Dalle Donne (1778 - 1842) - Italian Physician and Director at the University of Bologna
123. Anna Maria Walker (c. 1778 - 1852) - Scottish Botanist
124. Tabitha Babbitt (1779 - 1853) - American Inventor of the Circular Saw
125. Elizabeth Philpot (1780 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist
126. Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Scottish Astronomer and Science Writer
127. Marie-Anne Libert (1782 - 1865) - Belgian Botanist and Mycologist
128. Mary Anne Whitby (1784 - 1850) - English Silkworm Cultivator
129. Ellen Hutchins (1785 - 1815) - Irish Botanist
130. Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785) - Italian Mathematician
131. Josephine Kablick (1787 - 1863) - Czech Botanist and Palaeontologist
132. Maria Jansson (Kisamor) (1788 - 1842) - Swedish Natural Doctor
133. Charlotte Murchison (1788 - 1869) - Scottish Geologist
134. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793 - 1884) - American Botanist
135. Frances Acton (1794 - 1881) - English Botanist
136. Elizabeth Fulhame (c. 1794) - Scottish Chemist
137. Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794 - 1871) - French Marine Biologist
138. Anna Sundström (1795 - 1871) - Swedish Chemist
139. Mary Buckland (1797 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist
140. Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) - English Fossil Collector and Palaeontologist
141. Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) - English Botanist and Photographer
19th Century (1800-1849)
142. Anna Volkova (c. 1800 - 1876) - Russian Chemist
143. Lovisa Åhrberg (1801 - 1881) - Swedish Surgeon
144. Amalia Assur (1803 - 1889) - Swedish Dentist
145. Anna Maria Hussey (1805 - 1853) - English Mycologist
146. Elizabeth Twining (1805 - 1889) - English Botanical Illustrator
147. Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808 - 1872) - Irish Algologist, Botanist, and Illustrator
148. Caterina Scarpellini (1808 - 1873) - Italian Astronomer
149. Marie Josefina Mathilde Durocher (1809 - 1893)- Brazilian Obstetrician
150. Mary Ball (1812 - 1892) - Irish Entomologist
151. Mary Brush (fl. 1815) - American Inventor - Corset
152. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815 - 1852) - English Mathematician
153. Elizabeth Carne (1817 - 1873) - English Geologist and Mineralogist
154. Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) - American Astronomer
155. Eunice Foot (1818 - 1888) - American Chemist
156. Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - English Statistician and Founder of Modern Nursing
157. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - British-American Physician
158. Amalie Dietrich (1821 - 1891) - German Naturalist
159. Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822 - 1907) - American Naturalist
160. Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist
161. Emily Blackwell (1826-1910) - American Physician
162. Martha Jane Coston (1826 - 1904) - American Inventor of the Coston Flare
163. Marie Pasteur (1826 - 1910) - French Laboratory Scientist
164. Mary Walton- (c. 1827-?) - American Inventor of Pollution Reduction Devices
165. Johanna Mestorf (1828 - 1909) - German Archaeologist
166. Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828 - 1901) - English Entomologist
167. Hanna Hammarström (1829 - 1909) - Swedish Inventor (Telephone wire) and Industrialist
168. Maria Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829 - 1902) - German Physician
169. Elizabeth Brown (1830 - 1899) - British Astronomer
170. Clémence Royer (1830 - 1902) - French Translator of On the Origin of Species
171. Mary Treat (1830 - 1923) - American Naturalist
172. Isabella Bird (1831 - 1904) - English Explorer and Naturalist
173. Mary Everest Boole (1832 - 1916) - English Mathematician
174. Harriet Mann Miller (Olive Thorne Miller) (1831 - 1918) - American Naturalist and Ornithologist
175. Zsófia Torma (1832 - 1899) - Hungarian Archaeologist, Anthropologist and Paleontologist
176. Mary Walker (1832 - 1919) - American Surgeon
177. Lucy Hobbs Taylor (1833 - 1910) - American Dentist
178. Louisa Atkinson (1834 - 1872) - Australian Botanist
179. Susan Hallowell (1835 - 1911) - America Botanist
180. Emmy Rappe (1835 - 1896) - Swedish Nurse
181. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) - English Physician
182. Maria E. Beasley (1836 - 1913) - American Inventor
183. Johanna Heden (1837 - 1912) - Swedish Midwife and Barber Surgeon
184. Mary Albertson (1838 - 1914) - American Botanist and Astronomer
185. Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 - 1923) - American Ethnologist
186. Margaret E. Knight (1838 - 1914) - American Inventor
187. Alexandra Smirnoff (1838 - 1913) - Finnish Pomologist
188. Josephine Garis Cochrane (1839 - 1913) - American Inventor of Hand-Powered Dishwasher
189. Rachel Lloyd (1839 - 1900) - American Chemist
190. Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 - 1912) - English Physician and Teacher
191. Praskovya Uvarova (1840 - 1924) - Russia Archaeologist
192. Rosalie Fougelberg (1841 - 1911) - Swedish Dentist
193. Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907) - Irish Astronomer
194. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842 - 1906) - American Physician
195. Ellen Swallow Richards (1842 - 1911) - American Industrial and Environmental Chemist
196. Isala Van Diest (1842 - 1916) - Belgian Physician
197. Emily Warren Roebling (1844 - 1903) - American Civil Engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge
198. Varvara Kashevarova Rudneva (1844 - 1899) - Russian Physician
199. Elizaveta Litvinova (1845 - 1919?) - Russian Mathematician
200. Marian Farquharson (1846 - 1912) - English Naturalist
201. Julia Lermontova (1846 - 1919) - Russian Chemist
202. Sarah Frances Whiting (1846 - 1927) - American Physicist and Astronomer
203. Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847 - 1930) - American Psychologist, Logician and Mathematician
204. Mary Watson Whitney (1847 - 1921) - American Astronomer and Head of the Vassar Observatory
205. Ellen F. Eglin (c. 1848 - 1890) - American Inventor of Clothes Wringer
206. Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins (1848 - 1915) - Irish Astronomer and Pioneer in Spectroscopy
207. Mary Murtfeldt (1848 - 1913) - American Entomologist
208. Cornelia Clapp (1849 - 1934) - American Marine Biologist
209. Louise Hammarström (1849 - 1917) - Swedish Chemist
19th Century (1850-1874)
210. Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) - Russian Mathematician
211. Ellen Hayes (1851 - 1930) - American Mathematician and Astronomer
212. Letitia Geer (1852 - 1935) - American Nurse and Inventor of the Modern Syringe
213. Isis Pogson (1852 - 1945) - English Astronomer and Meteorologist
214. Clara Southmayd Ludlow (1852 - 1924) - American Medical Entomologist
215. Laura Alberta Linton (1853 - 1915) - American Chemist
216. Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 - 1923) - English Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist, and Inventor
217. Anna Botsford Comstock (1854 - 1930) - American Conservationist
218. Elizabeth Gifford Peckham (1854 - 1940) - American Arachnologist, and Entomologist
219. Annie Lorrain Smith (1854 - 1937) - English Lichenologist
220. Clara Eaton Cummings (1855 - 1906) - American Botanist
221. Karolina Widerström (1856 - 1949) - Swedish Physician
222. Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (1856 - 1916) - Russian Chemist
223. Williamina Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Scottish Astronomer
224. Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857 - 1945) - American Physiologist and Inventor of Micro-Electrode
225. Zelia Nuttall (1857 - 1933) - American Archaeologist
226. Anna Winlock (1857 - 1904) - American Astronomer and ‘Human Computer’
227. Mary Adela Blagg (1858 - 1944) - English Astronomer
228. Elizabeth Bragg (1858 - 1929) - Structural Engineer
229. Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858 - 1934) - American Botanist
230. Grace Frankland (1858 - 1946) - English Microbiologist
231. Charlotte Scott (1858 - 1931) - English Mathematician
232. Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858 - 1947) - American Ichthyologist
233. Fanny Bullock Workman (1859 - 1925) - American Geographer, Cartographer, and Explorer
234. Margaret Crosfield (1859 - 1952) - English Palaeontologist
235. Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt (1859 - 1928) - American Pathologist
236. Alice Eastwood (1859 - 1953)- Canadian Botanist
237. Marcia Keith (1859 - 1950) - American Physics Teacher
238. Josephine Silone Yates (1859 - 1912) - American Chemist
239. Florence Cushman (1860 - 1940) - American Astronomer
240. Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860 - 1944) - American Physicist
241. Mary J. Rathbun (1860 - 1943) - American Zoologist
242. Hedda Andersson (1861 - 1950) - Swedish Physician
243. Dorothea Klumpke-Robert (1861 - 1942) - American Astronomer
244. Kirstine Meyer (1861 - 1941) - Danish Physicist
245. Nettie Stevens (1861 - 1912) - American Geneticist
246. Zonia Baber (1862 - 1955) - American Geologist
247. Florence Bascom (1862-1945) - American Geologist
248. Carrie Derick (1862 - 1941) - Canadian Geneticist and Botanist
249. Margaret Fountaine (1862 - 1940) - English Lepidopterist
250. Agnes Pockels (1862 - 1935) - German Chemist
251. Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - American Astronomer
252. Ida Freund (1863 - 1914) - Austrian University Chemistry Lecturer
253. Margaret Alice Murray (1863 - 1963) - English Egyptologist, Archaeologist, and Anthropologist
254. Ethel Sargant (1863 - 1918) - English Botanist
255. Ellen Churchill Semple (1863 - 1932) - American Geographer
256. Anna Wessels Williams (1863 - 1954) - American Microbiologist
257. Maria Gordon (1864 - 1939) - Scottish Geologist
258. Kate Gleason (1865 - 1933) - American Engineer
259. E. Lilian Todd (1865 - 1937) - American Airplane Designer
260. Mary Anderson (1866 - 1953) - American Inventor of the Windshield Wiper Blade
261. Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866 - 1952) - Argentine Physicist
262. Antonia Coetana Maury (1866 - 1952) - American Astronomer
263. Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) - English Natural Scientist
264. Vera Popova (1867 - 1896) - Russian Chemist
265. Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish-French Physicist and Chemist
266. Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926) - English Explorer and Archaeologist
267. Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868 - 1947) - Irish Astronomer and Mathematician
268. Philippa Fawcett (1868 - 1948) - English Mathematician
269. Emilie Snethlage (1868 - 1929) - German Naturalist and Ornithologist
270. Isabelle Stone (1868 - 1944) - American Physicist
271. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921) - American Astronomer
272. Grace Chisholm Young (1868 - 1944) - English Mathematician
273. Mary Agnes Meara Chase (1869 - 1963) - American Botanist
274. Maud Cunnington (1869 - 1951) - Welsh Archaeologist
275. Helen Dean King (1869 - 1955) - American Biologist
276. Emilie Martin (1869 - 1936) - American Mathematician
277. Edith Anne Stoney (1869 - 1938) - Irish Physicist
278. Clara Immerwahr (1870 - 1915) -German Chemist
279. Anna Stecksen (1870 - 1904) - Swedish Physician and Pathologist
280. Elmina T. Wilson (1870 - 1918)- American Structural Engineer; Sister of Alda H. Wilson
281. Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871 - 1945) - American Archaeologist
282. Olga Lepeshinskaya (1871 - 1963) - Russian Biologist
283. Jantina Tammes (1871 - 1947) - Dutch Botanist and Geneticist
284. Florence R. Sabin (1871 - 1953) - American Medical Scientist
285. Ethel Shakespear (1871 - 1946) - English Geologist
286. Elizabeth F. Fisher (1872 - 1941) - American Geologist
287. Fanny Gates (1872 - 1931) - American Physicist
288. Louisa Martindale (1872 - 1966) - English Physician and Surgeon
289. Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) - American Bacteriological Chemist
290. Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (1872 - 1952) - American Mycologist
291. Sara Josephine Baker (1873 - 1945) - American Physician and Public Health Pioneer
292. Florence Parpart (1873 - 1930) - American Inventor of the Refrigerator
293. Alda H. Wilson (1873 - 1960) - American Structural Engineer; Sister of Elmina T. Wilson
294. Nora Lilian Alcock (1874 - 1972) - English Plant Pathologist
295. Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874 - 1934) - English Surgeon
296. Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis (1874 - 1956) - American Botanist
297. Ninni Kronberg (1874 - 1946) - Swedish Physiologist and Nutritionist
298. Elizabeth Laird (1874 - 1969) - Canadian Physicist
19th Century (1875-1899)
299. Astrid Cleve (1875 - 1968) - Swedish Botanist, Geologist and Chemist
300. Edith Humphrey (1875 - 1978) - English Inorganic Chemist
301. Mileva Maric (1875 - 1948) - Serbian Physicist
302. Emily Arnesen (1876 - 1928) - Norwegian Zoologist
303. Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) - Canadian Nuclear Physicist
304. Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasyeva (1876 - 1964) - Russian-Dutch Mathematician
305. Gabrielle Howard (1876 - 1930) - English Plant Physiologist
306. Edith Marion Patch (1876 - 1954) - American Entomologist
307. Alice Grace Cook (1877 - 1958) - English Astronomer
308. Florence Annie Yeldham (1877 - 1945) - English Mathematics Historian
309. Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951) - Welsh Palaeontologist
310. Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967) - Australian Medical Doctor and Educator
311. Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) - Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist
312. Theodora Lisle Prankerd (1878 - 1939) - English Botanist
313. Agnes Arber (1879 - 1960) - English Botanist
314. Vera Danchakoff (1879 - 1950) - Russian Cell Biologist
315. Ellen Gleditsch (1879 - 1968) - Norwegian Radiochemist
316. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879 - 1967) - English Botanist
317. Maud Menten (1879 - 1960) - Canadian Physician
318. Sophia Eckerson (1880 - 1954 ) - American Botanist and Microchemist
319. Margarete Kahn (1880 - 1942) - German Mathematician
320. Gabriele Rabel (1880 - 1963) - Austrian Physicist and Botanist
321. Marie Stopes (1880 - 1958) - British Palaeobotanist and Eugenicist
322. Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880 - 1932) - English Biochemist
323. Kono Yasui (1880 - 1971) - Japanese Biologist
324. Evelyn Cheesman (1881 - 1969) - British Entomologist
325. Alice Catherine Evans (1881 - 1975) - American Microbiologist
326. Alice Wilson (1881 - 1964) - Canadian Geologist and Palaeontologist
327. Eleanor Carothers (1882 - 1957) - American Zoologist and Geneticist
328. Raymonde de Laroche (1882 - 1919) - French Engineer and Pilot
329. Ann Haven Morgan (1882 - 1966) - American Zoologist and Ecologist
330. Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) - German Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
331. Alice Middleton Boring (1883 - 1955) - American Zoologist
332. Muriel Robertson (1883 - 1973) - Scottish Protozoologist and bacteriologist
333. Ethel Browne Harvey (1885 - 1965) - American Embryologist
334. Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (1885 - 1973) - Dutch Physicist
335. Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885 - 1975) - American Chemist and Inventor
336. Alice Perry (1885 - 1969) - Irish Civil Engineer
337. Marjory Stephenson (1885 - 1948) - English Biochemist and Microbiologist
338. Eileen Hendriks (1887 - 1978) - English Geologist
339. Hedwig Kohn (1887 - 1964) - German Physicist
340. Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888 - 1985) - English Archaeologist
341. Winifred Goldring (1888 - 1971) - American Palaeontologist
342. Inge Lehmann (1888 - 1993) - Danish Seismologist
343. Sara Branham Matthews (1888 - 1962) - American Microbiologist and Physician
344. Michiyo Tsujimura (1888 - 1969) - Japanese Biochemist
345. Lucy Wills (1888 - 1964) - English Haematologist
346. Lucy Wilson (1888 - 1980) - American Physicist
347. Annie Meinertzhagen (1889 - 1928) - Scottish Ornithologist
348. Mary Caldwell (1890 - 1972) - American Chemist
349. Julie Vinter Hansen (1890 - 1960) - Danish Astronomer
350. Euphemia Haynes (1890 - 1980) - American Mathematician
351. Pearl Kendrick (1890 - 1980) - American Bacteriologist
352. Elizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981) - Hungarian-American Chemist
353. Lidija Liepiņa (1891 - 1985) - Latvian Chemist
354. Edith Quimby (1891 - 1982) - American Medical Researcher and Nuclear Physicist
355. Hanna Rydh (1891 - 1964) - Swedish Archaeologist
356. A. Elizabeth Adams (1892 - 1962) - American Zoologist
357. Alice Ball (1892 - 1916) - American Pharmaceutical Chemist
358. Maude Bennot (1892 - 1982) - American Director of the Adler Planetarium
359. Dorothy Garrod (1892 - 1968) - English Archaeologist
360. Ruth C. McGuire (1893 - 1950) - American Botanist
361. Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1893 - 1973) - German-American Pathologist
362. Marietta Blau (1894 - 1970) - Austrian Physicist
363. Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894 - 1976) - English Mathematician and Biochemist
364. Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician
365. Helen S. Mitchell (1895 - 1984) - American Nutritionist
366. Alice H. Parker (1895 - 1920) - American Inventor of the Gas Furnace
367. Hertha Sponer (1895 - 1968) - German Physicist
368. Marguerite Williams (1895 - 1991) - American Geologist
369. Gerty Cori (1896 - 1957) - American Biochemist
370. Sheina Marshall (1896 - 1977) - Scottish Marine Zoologist
371. Dorothy M. Needham (1896 - 1987) - English Biochemist
372. Ida Noddack (1896 - 1978) - German Chemist and Physicist
373. Hazel K. Stiebeling (1896 - 1989) - American Nutritionist
374. Ana Aslan (1897 - 1988) - Romanian Physician and Biologist
375. Isabel Bassett Wasson (1897 - 1994) - American Petroleum Geologist
376. Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897 - 1931) - English Zoologist and herpetologist
377. Lili Bleeker (1897 - 1985) - Dutch Physicist
378. Jole Bovio Marconi (1897 - 1986) - Italian Archaeologist
379. Tilly Edinger (1897 - 1967) - German Palaeontologist
380. E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897 - 1984) - Indian Botanist
381. Irene Joliot-Curie (1897 - 1956) - French Physicist and Chemist
382. Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897 - 1968) - Bulgarian Physicist
383. Lucile Quarry Mann (1897 - 1986) - American Zoologist
384. Gertrud Theiler (1897 - 1986) - South African Parasitologist
385. Katharine Blodgett (1898 - 1979) - American Physicist
386. Doris Mable Cochran (1898 - 1968) - American Herpetologist
387. Rachel Fuller Brown (1898 - 1980)- American Chemist and Inventor
388. Katherine Esau (1898 - 1997) - German Botanist
389. Maria Klenova (1898 - 1976) - Russian Marine Geologist
390. Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) - German Embryologist
391. Bea Schwarz (1898 - 1969) - Dutch Phytopathologist
392. Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898 - 1990) - American Astronomer
393. Charlotte Auerbach (1899 - 1994) - German Zoologist and Geneticist
394. Anna Baetjer (1899 - 1984) - American Physiologist and toxicologist
395. Ann Bishop (1899 - 1990) - English Biologist and Parasitologist
396. Margaret Kennard (1899 - 1975) - American Neurologist
397. Jean Macnamara (1899 - 1968) -Australian Medical Doctor
398. Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899 - 2001)- Scottish Chemist
399. Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899 - 1999) - Russian Mathematician
400. Helen Porter (1899 - 1987) - English Botanist
401. Jane Stafford (1899 - 1991) - American Medical Writer and Early Science Communicator
402. Mildred Trotter (1899 - 1991) - American Forensic Anthropologist
403. Janet Vaughan (1899 - 1993) - British Physiologist
20th Century (1900 - 1910)
404. Christine Buisman (1900 - 1936) - Dutch Phytopathologist
405. Mary L. Cartwright (1900 - 1998) - English Mathematician
406. Gertrude Mary Cox (1900 - 1978) - American Statistician
407. Honor Fell (1900 - 1986) - English Developer of Tissue Culture
408. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchikin (1900 - 1979) - British Astronomer and Astrophysicist
409. Maria Telkes (1900 - 1995) - Hungarian Inventor in Solar Energy
410. Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901 - 1963) - American Physician
411. Isabella Gordon (1901 - 1988) - Scottish Marine Biologist
412. Grete Hermann (1901 - 1984) - German Mathematician and Philosopher
413. Suzanne LeClercq (1901 - 1994) - Belgian Palaeobotanist
414. Marion Cameron Gray (1902 - 1979) - Scottish Mathematician
415. Sidnie Manton (1902 - 1979) - British Entomologist and Zoologist
416. Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992) - American Cytogeneticist
417. Grace E. Pickford (1902 - 1986) - American Biologist and Endocrinologist
418. Mary Pickford (1902 - 2002) - British Neuroendocrinologist
419. Mina Spiegel Rees (1902 - 1997) - American Mathematician
420. Madga Staudinger (1902 - 1997) - Latvian Biologist
421. Katharine Way (1902 - 1995) - American Physicist
422. Edith Bülbring (1903 - 1990) - British Pharmacologist
423. Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903 - 1974) - German Mathematician and Engineer
424. Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 - 1971) - British Crystallographer
425. Ruth Ella Moore (1903 - 1994) - American Microbiologist
426. Maria Reiche (1903 - 1998) - German-Peruvian Archaeologist
427. Bertha Swirles (1903 - 1999) - British Physicist
428. Marthe Vogt (1903 - 2003) - German Neuroscientist
429. Hertha Wambacher (1903 - 1950) - Austrian Physicist
430. Ruby Hirose (1904 - 1960) - American Chemist
431. Berta Karlik (1904 - 1990) - Austrian Physicist
432. Irene Manton (1904 - 1988) - British Botanist
433. Elsie MacGill (1905 - 1980) - Canadian Aeronautical Engineer
434. Rozsa Peter (1905 - 1977) - Hungarian Mathematician
435. Mary Sears (1905 - 1997) - American Oceanographer
436. Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906 - 1996) - American Mathematician
437. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906 - 1972) - German Theoretical Physicist
438. Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992) - American Computer Scientist
439. Kathleen Kenyon (1906 - 1978) - British Archaeologist
440. F. Gwendolen Rees (1906 - 1994) - Welsh Zoologist and Parasitologist
441. Alice Stewart (1906 - 2002) - British Physician and Epidemiologist
442. Joan du Plat Taylor (1906 - 1983) - British Archaeologist
443. Elsie Widdowson (1906 - 2000) - British Dietitian
444. Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964) - American Marine Biologist and Conservationist
445. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 - 2004) - South African Palaeontologist
446. Irene K. Fischer (1907 - 2009) - Austrian Mathematician
447. Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907 - 2007) - German-American Geneticist
448. Dorothy Hill (1907 - 1997) - Australian Geologist
449. Helen Megaw (1907 - 2002) - Irish Crystallographer
450. Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) - American Botanist and Limnologist
451. Melba Phillips (1907 - 2004) - American Physicist
452. Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907 - 1990) - British Biochemist
453. Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (1907 - 1997) - American Pharmacist
454. Myrtle Bachelder (1908 - 1997) - American Chemist; Researcher on the Manhattan Project
455. Yvette Cauchois (1908 - 1999) - French Physicist
456. Mary Parke (1908 - 1989) - British Marine Botanist
457. Mary Golda Ross (1908 - 2008) - American Aerospace Engineer
458. Miriam Rothschild (1908 - 2005) - British Natural Scientist and Entomologist
459. Tikvah Alper (1909 - 1995) - South African Physicist and Radiobiologist
460. Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974) - American Obstetrical Anaesthesiologist
461. Isobel Bennett (1909 - 2008) - Australian Marine Biologist
462. Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) - Italian Neurologist
463. Marguerite Perey (1909 - 1975) - French Physicist
464. Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909 - 1997) - Russian Physicist
465. Joy Adamson (1910 - 1980) - Czech Naturalist and Author
466. Jacquetta Hawkes (1910 - 1996) - British Archaeologist
467. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994) -British Biochemist
468. Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910 - 1993) - American Microbiologist
469. Dorothy Vaughan (1910 - 2008) - American Mathematician
20th Century (1911 - 1920)
470. Klára Dán von Neumann (1911 - 1963) - Hungarian-American Computer Programmer
471. Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911 - 1998) - German Nuclear Physicist
472. Kamala Sohonie (1911 - 1998) - Indian Biochemist
473. Greta Stevenson (1911 - 1990) - New Zealander Mycologist
474. Anna J. Harrison (1912 - 1998) - American Organic Chemist
475. Ruby Payne-Scott (1912 - 1981) - Australian Radiophysicist
476. Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997) - Chinese Experimental Physicist
477. Mildred Cohn (1913 - 2009) - American Biochemist
478. Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (1913 - 1985) - American Computer Scientist
479. Mary Leakey (1913 - 1996) - British Palaeontologist
480. Elizabeth S. Russell (1913 - 2001) - American Geneticist
481. Florence van Straten (1913 - 1992) - American Aerological Engineer
482. Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914 - 1988) - American Mathematician
483. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austrian-American Inventor of Frequency Hopping
484. Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914 - 2015) - Canadian-American Pharmacologist
485. Ruth Turner (1914 - 2000) - American Marine Biologist
486. Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915 - 1981) - German Physicist
487. Liisi Oterma (1915 - 2001) - Finnish Astronomer
488. Winifred Pennington (1915 - 2007) - British Limnologist and Biologist
489. María de los Ángeles Alvariño González (1916 - 2005) - Spanish Oceanographer
490. Ruth Benerito (1926 - 2013) - American Inventor and Chemist
491. Halet Çambel (1916 - 2014) - Turkish Archaeologist
492. Joan Curran (1916 - 1999) - Welsh Physicist
493. Joyce Lambert (1916 - 2005) - English Botanist and Stratigrapher
494. Asima Chatterjee (1917 - 2006) - Indian Organic Chemist
495. Betty Holberton (1917 - 2001) - American Computer Programmer
496. Sameera Moussa (1917 - 1952) - Egyptian Nuclear Physicist
497. Carolyn Parker (1917 - 1966) - American Physicist
498. Kamal Ranadive (1917 - 2001) - Indian Biomedical Scientist
499. Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (1917 - 2003) - Siberian Born British Endocrinologist and Biochemist
500. Irene Ayako Uchida (1917 - 2013) - Canadian Down Syndrome Researcher
501. Gertrude B. Elion (1918 - 1999) - American Biochemist and Pharmacologist
502. Katherine Johnson (1918 - 2020) - American Physicist and Mathematician
503. Bruria Kaufman (1918 - 2010) - Israeli Theoretical Physicist
504. Anna Mani (1918 - 2001) - Indian Meteorologist and Physicist
505. Brenda Milner (1918 - ) - Canadian Neuropsychologist
506. Ruth Sanger (1918 - 2001) - Australian Haematologist and Serologist
507. Sheila Sherlock (1918 - 2001) - British Physician and Teacher
508. Anne Stine Ingstad (1918 - 1997) - Norwegian Archaeologist
509. Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919 - 2004) - American Surgeon
510. Margaret Burbidge (1919 - 2020) - British Astrophysicist
511. Patricia H. Clarke (1919 - 2010) - British Biochemist
512. Henriette Davidson Avram (1919 - 2006) - American Computer Programmer
513. Jean Hanson (1919 - 1973) - British Biophysicist and Zoologist
514. Mildred Rebstock (1919 - 2011) - American Chemist
515. Leona Woods Marshall (1919 - 1986) - American Physicist
516. Jane C. Wright (1919 - 2013) - American Cancer Researcher
517. Kateryna Yushchenko (1919 - 2001) - Ukrainian Computer Scientist
518. Leslie Barnett (1920 - 2002) - British Biologist
519. Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) - British Biophysicist and X-Ray Crystallographer
520. Adele Goldstine (1920 - 1964) - American Computer Programmer
521. Frances Meehan Latterell (1920 - 2008) - American Plant Pathologist
522. Helen Muir (1920 - 2005) - British Rheumatologist
523. Louise Reiss (1920 - 2011) - American Physician
524. Katsuko Saruhashi (1920 - 2007) - Japanese Geochemist
525. Marjorie Sweeting (1920 - 1994) - British Geomorphologist
526. Marie Tharp (1920 - 2006) - American Geologist and Cartographer
20th Century (1921 - 1930)
527. Ursula Franklin (1921 - 2016) - Canadian Metallurgist and Physicist
528. Phyllis S. Freier (1921 - 1992) - American Astrophysicist
529. Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994) - Lithuanian Archaeologist
530. Joan Hinton (1921 - 2010) - American Nuclear Physicist
531. Mary Jackson (1921 - 2005) - American Engineer
532. Marian Koshland (1921 - 1997) - American Immunologist
533. Marie Maynard Daly (1921 - 2003) - American Biochemist
534. Beatrice Mintz (1921- 2022) - American Embryologist
535. Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Antonelli (1921 - 2006) - Irish Computer Programmer
536. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921 - 2011) - American Medical Physicist
537. Ālenush Teriān (1921 - 2011) - Iranian Astronomer
538. Giuliana Tesoro (1921 - 2002) - Italian-American Chemist
539. Xie Xide (1921 - 2000) - Chinese Physicist
540. Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922 - 1999) - American Inventor of Home Security Devices
541. Eugenie Clark (1922 - 2015)- American Ichthyologist
542. Esther M. Conwell (1922 - 2014) - American Physicist
543. Naomi Datta (1922 - 2008) - British Geneticist and Bacteriologist
544. Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922 - 2017) - French Mathematician
545. Margherita Hack (1922 - 2013) - Italian Physicist and Writer
546. Evans Hayward (1922 - 2020) - American Physicist
547. Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922 - 2010) - German Metallurgist
548. Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004) - Russian Mathematician
549. Ester Lederberg (1922 - 2006) - American Microbiologist and Pioneer in Bacterial Genetics
550. Frances Spence (1922 - 2012) -American Computer Programmer
551. Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer (1922 - 2008) - American Computer Programmer
552. Brigitte Askonas (1923 - 2013) - British Immunologist
553. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923 - 2025) - French Mathematician and Physicist
554. Sulamith Goldhaber (1923 - 1965) - American Physicist
555. Stephanie Kwolek (1923 - 2014) - American Chemist and Inventor
556. Joanne Simpson (1923 - 2010) - American Meteorologist
557. Janet Watson (1923 - 1985) - British Geologist
558. Yvonne Brill (1924 - 2013) - Canadian Rocket Scientist
559. Milla Baldo-Ceolin (1924 - 2011) - Italian Particle Physicist
560. Jean Bartik (1924 - 2011) - American Computer Programmer
561. Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924 - 2023) - American Mathematician
562. Olga Kennard (1924 - 2023) - British Crystallographer
563. Mary Lee Woods (1924 - 2017) - British Mathematician and Computer Programmer
564. Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924 - 2017) - American Cancer Researcher
565. Ruth Teitelbaum (1924 - 1986) - American Computer Programmer
566. Bette Nesmith Graham (1924 - 1980) - American Inventor of Correction Fluid
567. Evangelina Villegas (1924 - 2017) - Mexican Biochemist
568. Winifred Watkins (1924 - 2003) - British Biochemist
569. Evelyn Berezin (1925 - 2018) - American Computer Engineer
570. Janet Davidson Rowley (1925 - 2013) - American Geneticist
571. Marthe Gautier (1925 - 2022) - French Physician
572. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015) - Polish Paleobiologist
573. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925 - 1983) - American Chemist and Bioinformatician
574. Mary Lyon (1925 - 2014) - British Geneticist
575. Olga Oleinik (1925 - 2001) - Ukrainian Mathematician
576. Nancy Roman (1925 - 2018) - American Astronomer
577. Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926 - 2012) - German Nuclear Physicist
578. Janine Connes (1926 - 2024) - French Astronomer
579. Vivienne Cassie Cooper (1926 - 2021) - New Zealand Botanist
580. Marian Diamond (1926 - 2017) - American Neuroscientist
581. Claire Fagin (1926 - 2024) - American Nurse and Nursing Educator
582. Darleane C. Hoffman (1926 - 2025) - American Chemist
583. Mathilde Krim (1926 - 2018) - Italian AIDs researcher
584. Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1927 - 2020) - American Plasma Physicist
585. Jannette Anderson (1927 - 2002) - Scottish Biologist and Educator
586. Martha Chase (1927 - 2003) - American Geneticist
587. Ursula M. Cowgill (1927 - 2015) - American Anthropologist and Biologist
588. Betty Hay (1927 - 2007) - American Developmental Biologist
589. Frances Hugle (1927 - 1968) - American Engineer and Inventor of Tape Automated Bonding
590. Maria Carmela Lico (1927 - 1985) - Italian-Brazilian Physiologist and Behaviour Neuroscientist
591. Anne McLaren (1927 - 2007) - British Developmental Biologist and Geneticist
592. Gertrude Neumark (1927 - 2010) - German-American Physicist
593. Margaret G. Kivelson (1928 - ) - American Planetary Scientist and Space Physicist
594. Vera Rubin (1928 - 2016) - American Astronomer
595. Margeret Rule (1928 - 2015) - British Archaeologist
596. Jean E. Sammet (1928 - 2017) - American Computer Scientist
597. Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928 - 1984) - Italian-American Experimental Nuclear Physicist
598. Dorothea Bennett (1929 - 1990) - American Geneticist and Developmental Biologist
599. Magda Ericson (1929 -) - French-Algerian Nuclear Physicist
600. Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929 - 2024) - Canadian-American Mathematician
601. Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929 - 2016) - American Chemist
602. Melba Roy Mouton ( 1929 - 1990) - American Mathematician
603. Anneke Levelt Sengers (1929 - 2024) - Dutch Physicist
604. Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929 - 2021) - American Astronomer
605. Carolyne Van Vliet (1929 - 2016) - Dutch Born American Physicist
606. June Almeida (1930 - 2007) - Scottish Virologist, Histologist and Imager
607. Christiane Bonnelle (1930 - 2016) - French Physicist
608. Nina Byers (1930 - 2014) - American Theoretical Physicist
609. Hester A. Davis (1930 - 2014) - American Archaeologist
610. Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930 -) - French Developmental Biologist
611. Mildred Dresselhaus (1930 - 2017) - American Physicist
612. Daphne Osborne (1930 - 2006) - British Botanist and Plant Physiologist
613. Halszka Osmolska (1930 - 2008) - Polish Palaeontologist
614. Margaret M. Perry (1930 - 2009) - English Molecular Geneticist
615. Patsy Sherman (1930 - 2008) - American Chemist
616. Gladys West (1930 - 2026) American Mathematician
617. Tu Youyou (1930 -) - Chinese Pharmaceutical Chemist
20th Century (1931-1940)
618. Idelisa Bonnelly (1931 - 2022) - Dominican Marine Biologist
619. Fawzia Fahim (1931 -) - Egyptian Biochemist
620. Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931 -) - American Information Scientist
621. Maxine Singer (1931 - 2024) - American Molecular Biologist
622. Elizabeth Warrington (1931 -) - British Neuropsychologist
623. Monique Adolphe (1932 - 2022) - French Cell Biologist
624. Grace Alele-Williams (1932 - 2022) - Nigerian Mathematician
625. Frances Allen (1932 - 2020) - American Computer Scientist
626. Jan Anderson (1932 - 2015) - New Zealand Biochemist
627. Yvonne Barr (1932 - 2016) - Irish Virologist and Co-Discoverer of EBV
628. Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985) - American Zoologist and Primatologist
629. Caroline Herzenberg (1932 - 2025) - American Physicist and Science Historian
630. Marcia Neugebauer (1932 -) - American Geologist and Space Physicist
631. Elsa G. Vilmundardóttir (1932 - 2008) - Icelandic Geologist
632. Ruth Arnon (1933 -) - Israeli Biochemist
633. Noemie Benczer Koller (1933 -) - Austrian-Born Nuclear Physicist
634. Patricia Bergquist (1933 - 2009) - New Zealand Zoologist
635. Annie Easley (1933 - 2011) - American Rocket and Computer Scientist
636. Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933 - 2014) - French-American Particle Physicist
637. Tomoko Ohta (1933 -) - Japanese Geneticist
638. Myriam Sarachik (1933 - 2021) - Belgian-American Physicist
639. Etta Zuber Falconer (1933 - 2002) - American Mathematics Lecturer
640. Jane Goodall (1934 - 2025) - British Primatologist and Anthropologist
641. Patricia Jacobs (1934 -) - Scottish Geneticist
642. Sylvia Earle (1935 -) - American Marine Biologist
643. Noreen Murray (1935 - 2011) - British Molecular Geneticist
644. Inge Schmitz-Fuerhake (1935 -) - German Physicist
645. Karen Sparck Jones (1935 - 2007) - British Computer Scientist
646. Evelyn Fox Keller (1936 - 2023) - American Physicist and Author
647. Helen T. Edwards (1936 - 2016) - American Physicist
648. Rosemary Grant (1936 -) - British Evolutionary Biologist
649. Daphne Jackson (1936 - 1991) - British Nuclear Physicist
650. Patricia Cladis (1937 - 2017) - Canadian Physicist and Mathematician
651. Alison Jolly (1937 - 2014) - American Primatologist
652. Teresa Maryańska (1937 - 2019) - Polish Palaeontologist
653. Grace Oladunni Taylor (1937 - 2025) - Nigerian Biochemist
654. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937 -) - Russian Cosmonaut
655. Lorna Casselton (1938 - 2014) - British Biologist and Mycologist
656. Lynn Conway (1938 - 2024) - American Computer Scientist
657. Nancy M. Dowdy (1938 -) - American Nuclear Physicist
658. Judy Franz (1938 -) - American Physicist
659. Margaret Hamilton (1938 -) - American Computer Scientist and Mathematician
660. Reatha Clark King (1938 -) - American Chemist
661. Lynn Margulis (1938 - 2011) - American Biologist
662. Bridget Ogilvie (1938 -) - Australian Parasitologist
663. Margarita Salas (1938 - 2019) - Spanish Biochemist and Molecular Geneticist
664. Sheila Widnall (1938 -) - American Aerospace Researcher
665. Dana Ulery (1938 -) - American Computer Scientist
666. Barbara Askins (1939 -) - American NASA Chemist
667. Mary-Dell Chilton (1939 -) - American Biologist and Botanist
668. Mary K. Gaillard (1939 - 2025) - America Particle Physicist
669. Judith Goslin Hall (1939 -) - American Clinical Geneticist
670. Barbara Liskov (1939 -) - American Computer Scientist
671. Ada E. Yonath (1939 -) - Israeli Crystallographer
672. Deborah Ajakaiye (1940 -) Nigerian Physicist
673. Mina Bissell (1940 -) - Iranian-American Breast Cancer Researcher
674. Louise Johnson (1940 - 2012) - British Biochemist and Protein Crystallographer
675. Evi Nemeth (1940 - 2013) - American Engineer and Expert in Computer System Administration
676. Anne Warner (1940 - 2012) - British Biologist
677. Lucy Shapiro (1940 -) - American Developmental Biologist
678. Judith Vaitukaitis (1940 - 2018) - American Reproductive Neuroendocrinologist
679. Sau Lan Wu (1940 -) – Chinese-American Physicist
20th Century (1941-1950)
680. Carole Jordan (1941 - 2026) - British Astronomer
681. Darshan Ranganathan (1941 - 2001) - Indian Organic Chemist
682. Jane Richardson (1941 -) - American Biophysicist
683. Joan A. Steitz (1941 -) - American Biochemist and Molecular Biologist
684. Beatrice Tinsley (1941 - 1981) - New Zealand Astronomer and Cosmologist
685. Patricia Bath (1942 - 2019) - American Ophthalmologist
686. Suzanne Cory (1942 -) - Australian Biologist
687. Dianne Edwards (1942 -) - Welsh Palaeobotanist
688. Julia Higgins (1942 -) - British Polymer Scientist
689. Ann Kiessling (1942 -) - American Reproductive Biologist
690. Meave Leakey (1942 -) - British Palaeoanthropologist
691. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942 -) - German Developmental Biologist and Geneticist
692. Anita Roberts (1942 - 2006) - American Molecular Biologist
693. Kathleen C. Taylor (1942 -) – American Chemist
694. Jean Thomas (1942 -) - Welsh Chemist
695. Elisabeth Vrba (1942 - 2025) - German-American Palaeontologist
696. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -) - Northern Irish Astrophysicist
697. Helen M. Berman (1943 -) - American Structural Biologist
698. Deborah Charlesworth (1943 -) - British Evolutionary Biologist
699. Brigid Hogan (1943 -) – British American Developmental Biologist
700. Paulien Hogeweg (1943 -) - Dutch Theoretical Biologist
701. Nancy Hopkins (1943 -) - American Molecular Biologist
702. Renata Kallosh (1943 -) - Russian Theoretical Physicist
703. Lorella M. Jones (1943 - 1995) - Canadian Physicist
704. Evelyn Nelson (1943 - 1987) - Canadian Mathematician
705. Helen Quinn (1943 -) - Australian Particle Physicist
706. Valerie Thomas (1943 -) - American Inventor
707. Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -) - American Astrophysicist
708. Bernadine Healy (1944 - 2011) - American Physician
709. Gail R. Martin (1944 -) – American Developmental Biologist
710. Margaret W. Rossiter (1944 -) - American Science Historian
711. Jill Tarter (1944 -) - American Astronomer
712. Patricia Vickers-Rich (1944 -) - Australian Palaeontologist
713. Roberta Bondar (1945 -) - Canadian Neurologist
714. Marian Dawkins (1945 -) - British Biologist
715. Adele Goldberg (1945 -) - Computer Scientist
716. Judith Howard (1945 -) - British Biochemist and Crystallographer
717. Gerta Keller (1945 -) - Swiss Palaeontologist
718. Philippa Marrack (1945 -) - British Biologist and Immunologist
719. Dusa McDuff (1945 -) - British Mathematician
720. Eugenia Maria del Pino Veintimilla (1945 -) - Ecuadorian Developmental Biologist
721. Cheryll Tickle (1945 -) - British Developmental Biologist
722. Nancy Wexler (1945 -) - American Geneticist
723. Valerie Beral (1946 - 2022) - Australian Epidemiologist and Cancer Epidemiologist
724. Catherine Brechigac (1946 - ) - French Physicist
725. Anna Curenius Roosevelt (1946 - ) - American Archaeologist
726. Birutė Galdikas (1946 - ) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist
727. Shirley Ann Jackson (1946 - ) - American Physicist
728. Mary-Claire King (1946 - ) - American Geneticist
729. Daniela Rhodes (1946 - )- Italian Molecular Biologist
730. Joan Roughgarden (1946 - ) - American Evolutionary Biologist
731. María Teresa Ruis (1946 - ) Chilean Astronomer
732. Ruth Shady (1946 - ) Peruvian Archaeologist
733. Fiona Stanley (1946 - ) - Australian Epidemiologist and Public Health Worker
734. Shirley Tilghman (1946 - ) - Canadian Molecular Biologist
735. Veronica van Heyningen (1946 - ) - British Geneticist
736. Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946 -) - Ukrainian Astronomer
737. Elizabeth Anionwu (1947 - ) British Nurse
738. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947 - ) - French Virologist
739. Linda B. Buck (1947 - ) - American Biologist
740. Margaret Chan (1947 - ) - Chinese-Canadian Director-General of WHO 2007- 2017
741. Jenny Clack (1947 - 2020) - British English Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist
742. Mary Cleave (1947 - ) - American Environmental Engineer and Astronaut
743. Janet Darbyshire (1947 - ) - British Epidemiologist and Science Administrator
744. Temple Grandin (1947 - ) - American Animal Scientist
745. Gail Hanson (1947 - ) - American Experimental Particle Physicist
746. Jane Lubchenco (1947 - ) - American Environmental Scientist
747. Polly Matzinger (1947 - ) - French Immunologist
748. Barbara A. Schaal (1947 - ) - German Born American Evolutionary Scientist
749. Phyllis Starkey (1947 - ) - British Biomedical Researcher
750. Elizabeth Blackburn (1948 - ) - Australian-American Molecular Biologist
751. Rivka Carmi (1948 - ) - Israeli Paediatrician and Geneticist
752. Pascale Cossart (1948 - ) - French Bacteriologist
753. Barbara Pearse (1948 - ) - British Biologist
754. Karen Wetterhahn (1948 - 1997) - American Chemist
755. Danielle Bunten Berry (1949 - 1998) - American Game Designer and Computer Programmer
756. Fan Chung (1949 - ) - Taiwanese -American Mathematician
757. Heather Couper (1949 - 2020) - British Astronomer
758. Sally Davies (1949 - ) - Chief Medical Officer for England 2010-2019
759. Ann Druyan (1949 - ) - American Author
760. Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
761. Sue Hendrickson (1949 - ) - American Palaeontologist
762. Susan Lindquist (1949 - 2016) - American Molecular Biologist
763. Barbara J. Meyer (1949 - ) - American Geneticist
764. Judith Resnik (1949 - 1986) - American Engineer and NASA Astronaut
765. Janet Thornton (1949 - ) - British Bioinformatician
766. Jean Beggs (1950 - ) - British Geneticist
767. Nitza Margarita Cintrón (1950 - ) - Puerto Rican Chief of Space Medicine at NASA Johnson Space Center
768. Jane Clarke (1950 -) - British Biochemist
769. Anne Dell (1950 - ) - Australian Biochemist
770. Louise Dolan (1950 - ) - American Mathematical Physicist
771. Elaine Fuchs (1950 - ) - American Cell Biologist
772. Linda Partridge (1950 - ) - British Geneticist
773. Radia Perlman (1950 - ) - American Computer Programmer
774. Janet Rossant (1950 - ) - English Developmental Biologist
20th-21st Century (1951-Present)
775. Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 - ) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician
776. Susan Blackmore (1951 - ) - British Writer
777. Kay Davies (1951-)- British Geneticist
778. Susan Greenfield (1951-)- British Neurologist
779. Martha P. Haynes (1951 - ) - American Astronomer and Astrophysicist
780. Susan Hockfield (1951 - ) - American Neurobiologist
781. Marcia McNutt (1951 - ) - American Geophysicists
782. Anne Mills (1951 - ) - British Health Economist
783. Chiara Nappi (1951 - ) - Italian Physicist
784. Mazlan Othman (1951 -) Malaysian Astrophysicist
785. Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) -American Physicist and Astronaut
786. Kathyrn D. Sullivan (1951- ) American geologist and Astronaut
787. Frances Ashcroft (1952 - ) - British Geneticist and Physiologist
788. Ann Dowling (1952 - ) - British Mechanical Engineer
789. Anita Harding (1952 - 1995) - Irish-British Neuroscientist
790. Mariann Bienz (1953 - ) - Swiss Molecular Biologist
791. Athene Donald (1953 - ) - British Physicist
792. Georgina Mace (1953 - 2020) - British Conservational Biologist
793. Carolyn Porco (1953 - ) - American Planetary and Imagery Scientist
794. Susan Mary Rees (1953 - ) - British Mathematician
795. Florence Wambugu (1953 - ) - Kenyan Plant Pathologist and Virologist
796. Lesley Jane Yellowlees (1953 - ) - British Chemist
797. Ingrid Daubechies (1954 - ) - Belgian Physicist and Mathematician
798. Joanna Haigh (1954 - ) - British Physicist
799. Christine Holt (1954 - ) - British Developmental Neuroscientist
800. Cynthia Jane Kenyon (1954 - ) - American Molecular Biologist
801. Anne O’Garra (1954 - ) - British Immunologist
802. Adriana Albini (1955 - ) Italian Pathologist
803. Marian Croak (1955 -) - American Software Engineer
804. Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (1955 -) - American Forensic Scientist
805. Claire M. Fraser (1955 - ) - American Microbiologist
806. Katalin Karikó (1955 - ) Hungarian-American Biochemist
807. Nancy Rothwell (1955 - ) - British Pathologist
808. Maria Abbracchio (1956 - ) - Italian Pharmacologist
809. Frances Arnold (1956 - ) - American Chemical Engineer
810. Gillian Bates (1956 - ) - British Biologist
811. Rosa Beddington (1956 - 2001) - British Developmental Biologist
812. Pamela J. Bjorkman (1956 - ) - American Chemist
813. A. Catrina Coleman (1956 - ) - Scottish Electrical Engineer
814. Melissa Franklin (1956 - ) - Canadian Particle Physicist
815. Mae Jemison (1956 - ) - American Physician and Astronaut
816. Carol V. Robinson (1956 -) - British Chemist
817. Penny Sackett (1956 - ) - American-Australian Astronomer
818. Susan Solomon (1956 - ) - American Atmospheric Chemist
819. Fiona Watt (1956 - ) - British Biologist
820. Janet Hemingway (1957 - ) - British Vector Biologist
821. Doreen Cantrell (1957 - ) - Scottish Immunologist
822. Susana López Charretón (1959 - ) - Mexican Virologist
823. Hannah Monyer (1957 - ) - German Neurobiologist
824. Elizabeth Robertson (1957 - ) - British Developmental Biologist
825. Lynn Rothschild (1957 - ) - American Evolutionary Biologist and Astrobiologist
826. Maria Spillantini (1957 - ) - Italian Molecular Neurologist
827. Manuela Maria Veloso (1957 - ) - Portuguese Computer Scientist
828. Karen Vousden (1957 - ) - British Medical Researcher
829. Sophie Wilson (1957 - ) - British Computer Scientist
830. Gloria Galeano Garcés (1958 - 2016) - Colombian Botanist
831. Susan Helms (1958 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
832. Anne L’ Huillier (1958 - ) French-Swedish Physicist
833. Tiiu Kull (1958 - ) - Estonian Botanist
834. Ann Nelson (1958 - 2019) - American Particle Physicist
835. Ellen Ochoa (1958 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
836. Margaret Ogola (1958 - 2011) - Kenyan Paediatrician and Author
837. Margaret J. Profet (1958 -) - American Evolutionary Biologist
838. Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1958 - ) - American Climatologist
839. Fiona Wood (1958 - ) - British-Australian Plastic Surgeon
840. Maria Zuber (1958 - ) - American Planetary Scientist
841. Claudia Alexander (1959 - 2015) - American Geophysicist and Planetary Scientist
842. Anita Borg (1959 - 2003) - American Computer Programmer
843. Andrea Brand (1959 - ) - American Molecular and Developmental Biologist
844. Danese Cooper (1959 - ) - American Computer Scientist and Programmer
845. Mercedes Doretti (1959 - ) - Argentine Forensic Anthropologist
846. Deborah Estrin (1959 - ) - American Computer Scientist
847. Shafi Goldwasser (1959 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist
848. Lene Hau (1959 - ) - Danish Physicist
849. Frances Kirwan (1959 - ) - British Mathematician
850. Gitte Moos Knudsen (1959 - ) - Danish Neurobiologist
851. Arati Prabhakar (1959 - ) - American Engineer
852. Joanne Pransky (1959 - 2023) - American Roboticist, ‘Robotic Psychiatrist’
853. Donna Strickland (1959 -) Canadian Physicist
854. Linda Avey (1960 -) - American Biologist
855. Catherine Coleman (1960 -) - American Chemist and Astronaut
856. Beth Levine (1960 - 2020) - American Microbiologist
857. Peggy Whitson (1960 -) - American Biochemist and Astronaut
858. Elizabeth Simpson (fl. 1960s) - British Biologist and Immunologist
859. Sue Black (1961 -) - Scottish Forensic Anthropologist
860. Cecilia Bouzat (1961 -) - Argentine Neuroscientist
861. Lynn Gladden (1961 -) - British Chemical Engineer
862. Carole Goble (1961 -) - British Computer Scientist
863. Carol W. Greider (1961 -) - American Molecular Biologist
864. Kalpana Chawla (1962 - 2003) - Indian Aerospace Engineer
865. Michele Dougherty (1962-) - British Astrophysicist
866. Fabiola Gianotti (1962 -) - Italian Particle Physicist
867. Sarah Gilbert (1962 -) - British Vaccinologist
868. Lisa Randall (1962 -) - American Theoretical Physicist
869. Ulrike Tillmann (1962 -) - German Mathematician
870. Safaa Kumari (1963 -) Syrian Plant Virologist
871. Jane Luu (1963 -) - Vietnamese-American Astronomer
872. Misha Mahowald (1963 - 1996) -American Computational Neurologist
873. May-Britt Moser (1963 -) Norwegian Neuroscientist
874. Sania Nishtar (1963 -) Pakistani Physician
875. Fiona Powrie (1963 -) - British Immunologist
876. Daniela L. Rus (1963 -) - Romanian Born Roboticist, Pioneer in A.I.
877. Rabia Salihu Sa’id (1963 -) - Nigerian Atmospheric Physicist
878. Helen Sharman (1963 -) - British Chemist
879. Jennifer Doudna (1964 -) - American Biochemist, CRISPR Developer
880. Sonia Alconini (1965 -) Bolivian Archaeologist
881. Anja Cetti Anderson (1965 -) - Danish Astrophysicist and Author
882. Mandy Chessell (1965 -) - British Engineer and Computer Scientist
883. Jeong Eun-kyeong (1965 -) South Korean Public Health Expert
884. Andrea Ghez (1965 -) - American Astronomer
885. Edith Heard (1965 -) - French Geneticist
886. Anousheh Ansari (1966 -) - Iranian Engineer and Astronaut
887. Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966 -) - American Chemist
888. Jaime Levy (1966 -) - American Software Designer
889. Evelyn Miralles (1966 -) - Venezuelan NASA Computer Engineer
890. Antje Boetius (1967 -) - German Marine Biologist
891. Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (1967 -) - American Robotics Engineer
892. Claire F. Gmachi (1967 -) - Austrian Electrical Engineer
893. Victoria Kaspi (1967 -) - Canadian Astrophysicist
894. Hayat Sindi (1967 -) - Saudi Medical Researcher
895. Maggie Aderin-Pocock (1968 -) - British Space Scientist
896. MiMi Aung (1968 -) - Burmese-American Engineer
897. Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968 -) - French Geneticist, Developer of CRISPR
898. Daphne Koller (1968 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist
899. Deborah S. Jin (1968 -) - American Physicist
900. Hope Jahren (1979 -) - American Geochemist
901. Maria Fadiman (1969 -) - American Ethnobotanist
902. Priyamvada Natarajan (1969 -) - Indian Astrophysicist
903. Dana Angluin (fl. 1970s) - American Computer Scientist
904. Olanike Adeyemo (1970 -) - Nigerian Veterinarian
905. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (1970 -) - Ugandan Veterinarian and Conservationist
906. Nicole King (1970 -) - American Biologist
907. Julie Makani (1970 -) Tanzanian Biomedical Researcher
908. Eleanor Maguire (1970 -) - Irish Neuroscientist and Memory Researcher
909. Patricia Simpson (fl. 1970s) - British Developmental Biologist
910. Amanda Barnard (1971 -) - AustralianTheoretical Physicist
911. Sara Seager (1971 -) - Canadian-American Astronomer and Planetary Scientist
912. Ruth Lawrence (1971 -) - British-Israeli Mathematician
913. Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971 -) - Greek Theoretical Physicist
914. Ayanna Howard (1972 -) - American Roboticist
915. Pamela Gay (1973 -) - American Astronomer and Writer
916. Anita Goel (1973 -) - American Physician, Physicist in Nanotechnology
917. Marjolein Kriek (1973 -) - Dutch Clinical Geneticist
918. Pardis Sabeti (1975 -) - Iranian-American Computational Biologist
919. Dilek Gürsoy (1976 -) German Heart Surgeon
920. Lubna Tahtamouni (1976 -) - Jordanian Developmental Biologist
921. Beth Shapiro (1976 -) - Molecular Evolutionary Biologist
922. Kathrin Bringmann (1977 -) - German Mathematician
923. Samantha Cristoforetti (1977 -) - Italian Astronaut
924. Lisa Kaltenegger (1977 -) - Austrian Astronomer Focusing on the Search for Life
925. Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) - Iranian Mathematician; 1st Female Winner of the Fields Medal
926. Jessica Meir (1977 -) - American Marine Biologist and Astronaut
927. Melissa Trainer (1978 -) - American Astrobiologist
928. Christina Koch (1979 -) - American Electrical Engineer and Astronaut
929. Karen Masters (1979 -) - British Astrophysicist
930. Asha de Vos (1979 -) - Sri Lankan Marine Biologist
931. Amanda Gay Fisher (fl. 1980s) - British Cell Biologist
932. Audrey Tang (1981 -) - Taiwanese Computer Programmer
933. Maryna Viazovska (1984 -) - Ukrainian Mathematician
934. Niloufar Bayani (1986 -) - Iranian Conservational Biologist
935. Sirisha Bandla (1987 -) - Indian - American Aeronautical Engineer
936. Katie Bouman (1989 -) - American Engineer and Computer Scientist
937. Joy Crisp (fl. 1989) - American Planetary Geologist
938. Tasneem Zehra Husain (fl. 1990s) - Pakistani Theoretical Physicist
939. Nicola Pellow (fl. 1990s) - British Computer Scientist
940. Ellen Spertus (fl. 1990s) - American Computer Scientist
941. Margaret A. Stanley (fl. 1990s -) - British Virologist and Epithelial Biologist
942. Anastasia Volkova (1991 -) - Ukrainian Agricultural Scientist
943. Aye Nyein Thu (1995 -) - Burmese Doctor
944. Afra Karim (1995 - 2012) - Pakistani Computer Prodigy
945. Yasmin Altwaijri (fl. 2000s) - Saudi Epidemiologist
946. Mary Higby Schweitzer (fl. 2000s) - American Palaeontologist
947. Karen P. Steel (fl. 2000s) - British Geneticist
948. Salinee Tavaranan (fl. 2000s) - Thai Mechanical Engineer
949. Mary Voytek (fl. 2000s) - American Astrobiologist
950. Lauren Gardner (fl. 2000s) - American Engineer
951. Yuki Okoda (fl. 2000s) - Japanese Astronomer
952. Jane Rigby (fl. 2000s) - American Palaeontologist
953. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji (fl. 2000s) - Cameroonian Virologist and Ethics Campaigner