Yvonne Brill
Rocket scientist Yvonne Brill did brilliant work in rocket propulsion and invented the electrothermal hydrazine thruster (used in controlling satellites), improving both engine performance and propulsion reliability.
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Barbara Wharton Low
Biochemist Barbara Low discovered the elemental components of penicillin that enabled mass production and conversion into other antibiotic compounds. Until then, the life-saving drug had not been successfully synthesised.
Charlotte Murchison
Charlotte Murchison collected and studied fossils, with other geologists of the time studying and publishing works about fossils in her collection.
Christine Kirch
1700s Germany astronomer
Candace Pert
Neuroscientist Candace Pert discovered the opiate receptor—key to explaining how endorphins and opioids work chemically in the body—and was the first person to isolate the T cell receptor.
Reba Whittle
During World War II, Lieutenant Reba Whittle was a flight nurse with the 813th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron who logged more than 500 flight hours and spent months as a POW.
Adele Masi Lessona
Italian scientific and literary translator
Dr Clelia Duel Mosher
Her Mosher Report remains the only known existing survey of Victorian women’s sexual habits, begun in 1892 and continued for nearly thirty years.
Dr Margaret Burbidge
Astrophysicist and the first female director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
Agnes Pockels
Chemist Agnes Pockels would have studied the subject if she were given the chance, but women were not admitted to universities in 1870s Germany.