Dr Gerty Cori
Czech-American biochemist who, in 1947, became the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Gladys Lounsbury Hobby
American microbiologist whose research significantly contributed to the development of antibiotics, particularly in turning penicillin from a laboratory experiment into a widely manufactured drug during World War II.
Emīlija Gudriniece
Latvian chemist renowned for her contributions to organic synthesis.
Alberte Pullman
Esteemed French theoretical and quantum chemist.
Ida Noddack
German chemist and physicist who proposed the idea of nuclear fission
Edith Humphrey
British inorganic chemist, the first British woman to earn a chemistry doctorate and as the chemist who first synthesized a chiral inorganic complex.
Claudine Picardet
Claudine Picardet was notable in chemistry, mineralogy, and meteorology during the late 18th century.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Nobel Prize-winning British chemist renowned for her work in X-ray crystallography.
Michiyo Tsujimura
Michiyo Tsujimura (辻村みちよ) was a Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist known for her pioneering work on green tea components. She was the first woman in Japan to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture.
Elizabeth Helen Alexander
British scholar, painter and sculptor