Françoise de Boissieu
French Resistance fighter in WWII
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Isabel Townsend Pell
American socialite who joined the French Resistance during World War II — one of the few women who was part of the Maquis — purportedly due to her good aim.
Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.
Jeanne Berthomier
Jeanne Berthomier, who was a civil servant in the Ministry of Public Works in Paris, managed to deliver top-secret information typed on tissue paper to the Alliance chief, Marie Madeleine Fourcade.
Jeanne Chanton
As a member of the French Resistance, Jeanne Chanton was arrested and sent to a work camp in Germany during WWI.
Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Encarnación Mares de Cárdenas
Encarnación Mares de Cárdenas achieved a very high status in one of the rebel forces opposed to Victoriano Huerta. As a result of her excellent work at the Battle of Lampazo, Nuevo León, she was promoted from corporal to lieutenant.
Elizabeth Killick
Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Joy Muntz
Pioneering engineer-pilot