Kihana Wilson
American astrophysicist and writer
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Christine Kirch
1700s Germany astronomer
Dr Margaret Burbidge
Astrophysicist and the first female director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
Gentile Budrioli
Gentile Budrioli was an influential astrologist and herbal healer in 1400s Bologna, renowned for her skills, a close friend of the ruler’s wife, and even briefly a councillor at the Bolognese court.
Wendy Freedman
Dr. Wendy Freedman was the lead author on the 2001 paper “Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant;” Freedman and her team had calculated more precisely than ever before the rate at which the universe is expanding, or the Hubble constant.
Margaret Geller
American astrophysicist
Dr Mazlan Othman
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, pioneering the nation’s entry into space exploration.
Ban Zhao
Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician, the earliest known female Chinese historian
Carla Fasano
Carla Fasano was the first woman to be appointed professor at the University of Wollongong (1985).
Dr Tamara Jernigan
American astronaut and astrophysicist