Harriet Brooks
Canadian nuclear physicist
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Margot Dorenfeldt
One of the first two women chemical engineers to graduate from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1919
Dr Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel-winning physicist
Dr Mazlan Othman
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, pioneering the nation’s entry into space exploration.
Lin Lanying
Lin Lanying’s work laid the foundation for the development of microelectronics and optoelectronics in China. She started a new research field and attracted the world’s attention to her research on the space growth of gallium arsenide crystals and their properties.
Dr Anna Dmitrievna Gelman
20th century Russian chemist and engineer, who was the first to synthesise alkene complexes of platinum, discovered heptavalent states of plutonium and other actinides and created and improved processes for radionuclide production.
Marion Rice Hart
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator
Helen Megaw
Irish crystallographer and pioneer in X-ray crystallography
Anne Kernan
Irish-American particle physicist
Euphemia Ross
Physicist and pioneer of the kindergarten movement in Western Australia.