Christina Hammock Koch was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. She served as flight engineer on the International Space Station (ISS) for Expedition 59, 60 and 61. Koch set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman with a total of 328 days in space and participated in the first all-female spacewalk.
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, blazed a trail as the first Black woman on active duty in the US Coast Guard.
Dr Constance Stone was the first woman to be registered as a medical practitioner in Australia.
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