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Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch

Pioneering geneticist renowned for her contributions to the field of developmental genetics.

Sulamith Goldhaber

High-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist; a world expert on the interactions of K+ mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to them.

The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.

Tilly Edinger

Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.

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.”

Dr Myriam Sarachik

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.