Lina Stern
Dr. Lina Stern faced the dual barriers of being a woman and being Jewish but nevertheless was able to become a groundbreaking researcher who introduced the scientific community to the barrière hématoencéphalique—the blood-brain barrier.
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Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan was an acclaimed mycologist, King’s College graduate, and Head of the Botany Department (as well as first female professor) at Birkbeck College long before she joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War I, and was made chief controller of the women deployed to France.
Dr Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist who won a Nobel Prize for her work developing CRISPR gene editing
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.
Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier
Nobel-winning biochemist who co-developed CRISPR gene editing technology
Beatrice Mintz
Dr. Beatrice Mintz was a groundbreaking cancer researcher and embryologist who helped increase our understanding of mammalian development.
Nettie Stevens
Discoverer of sex chromosomes
Dr Teruko Ishizaka
Working with her husband, she co-discovered allergen-specific antibody proteins called immunoglobulin E (or IgE), publishing their findings in 1966
Birutė Galdikas
German primatologist
Dr Judith Kinnear
Australian geneticist and the first woman to lead a New Zealand university.