Mary Sherman Morgan
The only female engineer among 900 rocket scientists at North American Aviation in the early 1950s, she invented hydyne, the rocket fuel that successfully boosted America’s first satellite into orbit in 1958.
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Julie Hammer
Julie Hammer joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1977, after completing a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Sydney. She was originally an education officer but transferred to the Engineer Branch in 1981. Hammer was the first woman to command an operational unit in the RAAF, the Electronic Warfare Squadron.
Elizabeth Coldicutt
Beth Coldicutt taught in the Faculties of Engineering and Architecture, University of Melbourne 1939-1979, beginning as a senior demonstrator and ending as a Reader.
Claudia Sheinbaum
In 2024, Mexican politician and environmental engineer Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman and first Jewish person elected president of Mexico, winning a landslide victory.
Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
Marie van Brittain Brown
She collaborated with her husband, an electronics technician, to design and create the first closed-circuit television security system, changing home security for generations to come.
Dr Christine Darden
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
Margaret Pirrie
Viscountess Pirrie , public figure and philanthropist
Ethel Heinecke Bauer
American aerospace engineer
Sarah Guppy
In 1811 Sarah Guppy patented a method for making safe abutments for suspension bridges.