Clara Louise Maass
Nurse Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901) volunteered to participate in an immunization experiment against yellow fever in Cuba, but succumbed to the disease at the young age of 25.
Nurse Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901) volunteered to participate in an immunization experiment against yellow fever in Cuba, but succumbed to the disease at the young age of 25.
Elizabeth Coleman White developed the US’s first cultivated blueberry.
Australian botanist and geneticist, and an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force during World War II
As a sea-level researcher, Nicole Hernandez Hammer has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea-level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida.
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.
Jacqueline Stewart Falconer studied physiology at University College, London. Awarded a B.Sc. she was appointed as a Demonstrator in Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology of King’s College London in 1941. In 1944 she was appointed as a lecturer in the Physiology Department, Medical School, University of Newcastle.
Princess, priestess and the world’s first known author
Deaf British suffragist
1800s American philanthropist
Nettie A. Farrar Harris worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1881-1885.1 She was the fifth woman computer to work at the HCO, and her work primarily involved using the glass plates to calculate relative magnitudes of stars and measure stellar spectra.