Mary Dilys Glynne
As well as being a leading scientist, Mary Glynne was also a distinguished mountaineer.
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Dr Caroline Burling Thompson
Dr. Caroline Burling Thompson was an American entomologist at Wellesley College.
Dr Virginia Anne Rice Williams
Biochemist Virginia Anne Rice Williams helped develop more nutritious grains through her pioneering studies of rice; she conducted important research on the B-vitamin content of rice, on ways to keep rice from turning rancid in storage, and on the vitamin fortification of rice.
Dr Mary Ethel Florey
Dr. Mary Ethel Florey, ran the first clinical trials of penicillin in 1941 alongside her lab partner and husband Howard Walter Florey. Yet, like so many other wives, she was left out when he won a Nobel in 1945 for the work they had done together
Mary Hunt
Lab assistant Mary Hunt reputedly found the mold that led to penicillium rubens strain NRRL 1951—the “parent” of all strains that would later be used commercially to produce penicillin.
Kristine Bonnevie
Kristine Bonnevie’s competence as a college professor led to sweeping legal reform in Norway. She was nominated to a professor position in 1910, during a time when Norwegian law prevented women from holding such a position.
Jean Purdy
Embryologist and nurse Jean Purdy was a key contributor to the work that resulted in the birth of the first IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) baby in 1978.
Jessie Marie Jacobs
Mathematician who collaborated on Nobel-winning genetics work with her husband
Hilde Mangold
Hilde Mangold’s 1923 dissertation was “one of the very few doctoral theses in biology that have directly resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize” but she wasn’t the one who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Dr Icie Hoobler
American chemist