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.
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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.
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Jewish-American zoologist known for her pioneering work in evolutionary theory and contributions to zoology.
Liliana Lubińska
Renowned neuroscientist known for her work on the peripheral nervous system and the discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport.
Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
Anna Winlock
Distinguished American astronomer and a notable member of the pioneering female computer group known as “the Harvard Computers.”
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Claribel Cone
Claribel Cone significantly contributed to two distinct fields: biology and the patronage of modern French art.