Dr Nouria Salehi

In addition to her ongoing research in nuclear medicine, Nouria has travelled to Afghanistan many times, at the risk of her own life, to establish science teacher training programs, apprenticeships, literacy programs, and a range of other constructive initiatives, to drive change and empower young people and women and their communities.

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Dr Jean Laby

In 1959 Dr Jean Laby became the first woman to receive the Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics at the University of Melbourne.

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Dr Claudia J Alexander

Dr. Alexander’s role in the Rosetta mission, the first to land on a comet, was not her only triumph. She was also a project manager on NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter and was a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As a researcher, Alexander’s studies included the evolution and interior physics of comets, Jupiter and its moons, magnetospheres, plate tectonics, space plasma, the solar wind and the planet Venus. She wrote or co-authored 14 papers.

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Dr Njema Frazier

Dr. Frazier is a physicist in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), managing scientific and technical projects established to ensure a safe, secure, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing.

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Adelina Gutiérrez

Chilean professor, scientist and academic who was the main force behind setting up the first Bachelor’s degree in Astronomy in Chile and later the first Master’s degree in Astronomy. She was the first Chilean to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics and also the first woman elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

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Joan Curran

Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.

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