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Marcella LeBeau

Prominent Lakota woman celebrated for her service as a nurse and military veteran.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”

Belgian-born American experimental physicist renowned for her contributions to low-temperature solid-state physics. She served as a distinguished professor of physics at the City College of New York from 1996.

Marguerite Perey

Prominent French physicist known for her pioneering work in radiochemistry.

Mary Golda Ross

First known Native American female engineer and pioneering female engineer at Lockheed.

Margaret Hamilton

American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner; director of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory’s Software Engineering Division, a crucial role in developing onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo program.

Margaretha van Godewijk

Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.

Dr Agnes Forbes Blackadder

The first woman to graduate in medicine from the University of St Andrews in 1895.

Karen Horney

German psychoanalyst who later practiced in the United States. Her pioneering theories challenged traditional Freudian beliefs, especially in the realms of sexuality and psychoanalysis’s instinctual emphasis.