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Dr Wanda Díaz-Merced

Puerto Rican scientist who created ‘sonification’ software that allowed her to participate fully in astrophysical endeavors despite vision loss

Wilma S Mangum

Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy

Eleanor B Barnes

Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy

Gladys Joslin

Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy

Virginia Kruse

Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy

Agnes Williams

Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy

Donna Strickland

In 2018, Strickland became the first woman in 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

Marion Brickwedde held a B.S. in chemistry (1929) and M.S. in physics (1930), and went on to teach physics at George Washington University and Pennsylvania State University, and served on the research staffs of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards and Los Alamos National Laboratory.