Hilda Taba
Estonian-American curriculum reformer
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Dr Icie Hoobler
American chemist
Jantina Tammes
Dutch botanist and geneticist Jantina Tammes was one of only 11 women students at the University of Groningen in 1890, where she was allowed to attend lectures but not take exams, culminating in a teaching diploma rather than a degree in science. She went on to be the first professor of genetics in the Netherlands (of any gender).
Jean Cooke
British painter
Erika Cremer
During World War II, physical chemist Erika Cremer was working in Nazi-occupied Austria, developing solid-state gas adsorption chromatography.
Mónica Ponce de León
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Mónica Ponce de León is the first woman and first Latin American to serve as dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (2016-2025).
Julia Guarino Fiechter
Julia Guarino Fiechter is considered the first professional woman architect in Uruguay.
Filandia Pizzul
Filandia Pizzul was the first woman to graduate with a diploma in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (1928).
Denise Scott Brown
Architect Denise Scott Brown, who won the Soane Medal in 2018 for the “global influence” of her work, was deliberately excluded when her husband won the Pritzker in 1991 for work that everyone knew they had collaborated on together.
Greta Submit Ogden
Canadian artist, professor, and pioneer occupational therapist