Her untiring efforts to engage and acknowledge the activism of women’s groups in support of a new statute bore fruit as women shaped many provisions of the new law passed to replace the Wiley Act: The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Effie Alberta Read, Ph. D., M. D., one of very few women in the FDA’s Bureau of Chemistry when she joined the agency in 1907, was among the best trained analysts when she arrived.
Mary Engle Pennington became FDA’s first female lab chief under Harvey Wiley following passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. Her bacteriological research helped revolutionize the food supply, making more safe, fresh foods available at affordable prices, particularly in newly industrialized areas of the country.
Professor Roessner is one of Australia’s foremost plant scientists and a world leader in the field of metabolomics – the detection and quantification of small molecule metabolites in biological materials.
Australian pioneer for women in biochemistry and advocate for rural women
A trailblazer and acknowledged authority in the field of analytical chemistry and research
Tracy C. Dyson has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, and is a veteran of three space flights. Dr. Dyson has designed, constructed and implemented electronics and hardware for the study of atmospheric gas phase chemistry, and has developed and presented numerous papers on methods of chemical ionization for the spectral interpretation of trace compounds.
Dr. Cheng is a chemist and energy storage researcher whose work helped create the Electrolyte Genome database, which transformed how scientists identify and select molecules suitable for next-generation battery technologies.
An Indian American inventor known for creating a revolutionary dental filling material that improved the way dentists restore teeth, Sumita Mitra used her curiosity and imagination to discover the idea for the material where she least expected it.
As with so many of the scientists who worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, Lilli Schwenk Hornig (1921-2017) had fled her homeland to escape persecution.