Linda Kearns MacWhinney
20th century Irish republican and nurse
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Julia Sewell
Julia Sewell was a plant collector in southwestern Western Australia where her family ran sheep and cattle stations. Between 1882 and 1892 she collected around Mount Caroline, the Swan River, Bunbury and Geographe Bay.
Dorothy McFadden Hoover
Dorothy M. Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics. The granddaughter of enslaved people, she overcame the significant obstacles facing African American women in the Jim Crow era of the twentieth century to earn advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.
Mary Clare Moore
1800s Irish Sister of Mercy, foundress, Crimean war nurse, and teacher
Shar Dubey
Match Group engineer and CEO
Wendy Freedman
Dr. Wendy Freedman was the lead author on the 2001 paper “Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant;” Freedman and her team had calculated more precisely than ever before the rate at which the universe is expanding, or the Hubble constant.
Lina Stern
Dr. Lina Stern faced the dual barriers of being a woman and being Jewish but nevertheless was able to become a groundbreaking researcher who introduced the scientific community to the barrière hématoencéphalique—the blood-brain barrier.
Lynda Weinman
Digital artist and author of one of the first web design textbooks in 1996
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan was an acclaimed mycologist, King’s College graduate, and Head of the Botany Department (as well as first female professor) at Birkbeck College long before she joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War I, and was made chief controller of the women deployed to France.
Dr Helen Hobbs
Dr Helen Hobbs fundamentally changed the way we understand cholesterol, doing work that would save countless people from death and disability related to issues like heart disease and stroke.