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.
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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
Dr Dora Henry
During World War II, the U.S. Navy was trying to find a solution for “fouling”—when barnacles attach to ship hulls en masse, which slows the ship and increases fuel consumption. Yet when Dr. Dora Henry, the leading expert in the country, if not the world, on barnacles offered her services to help with the research, the men in charge declined.
Eleanor Glanville
1600s English entomologist
Elizabeth Bugie
In 1944, Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie and Selman Waksman published their discovery of streptomycin, yet when Waksman and Schatz patented it, her name was left off the application.
Marion Bidder
Biologist Marion Bidder worked as a lecturer and director of studies at Newnham College for more than ten years before marrying in 1899. Suddenly her published works were all about domestic economy—even though she’d married a fellow biologist.
Dr Marthe Gautier
Marthe Gautier was studying Down Syndrome when she noticed an extra chromosome while studying cell samples from a patient. Due to her poorly equipped lab—she had only a low-power microscope—she couldn’t identify or photograph the chromosome.