Dr Ellen Ochoa

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa became Johnson Space Center’s 11th center director in 2013 until her retirement in 2018 after 30 years at NASA.

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Dr Andrea Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith, PhD, is a pioneer in the field of wireless communications whose discoveries have influenced cellular and WiFi networks all over the world.

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Dr Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.

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Edith Clarke

American electrical engineer with expertise in power systems and was influential in the design of dams across the American West, including Hoover Dam.

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Rachel Fuller Brown

Nystatin, one of the first effective antifungal medicines, was discovered in 1950 by two women scientists: Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975) and Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980)

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