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.

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Nicole Hernandez Hammer

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.

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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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Dr Jacqueline Stewart Falconer

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.

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Nettie Farrar Harris

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.

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