Virginia Kruse
Scientist who worked on the Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, the world’s first reactor to produce electricity using nuclear energy
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Marlyn Meltzer
In the 1940s, Kathleen Antonelli, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances “Betty” Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, and Ruth Teitelbaum collaborated to program ENIAC, the world’s first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.
Dr Mary Ethel Florey
Dr. Mary Ethel Florey, ran the first clinical trials of penicillin in 1941 alongside her lab partner and husband Howard Walter Florey. Yet, like so many other wives, she was left out when he won a Nobel in 1945 for the work they had done together
Mary Hunt
Lab assistant Mary Hunt reputedly found the mold that led to penicillium rubens strain NRRL 1951—the “parent” of all strains that would later be used commercially to produce penicillin.
Mary Leakey
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey spent much of her marriage letting her husband Louis publicly take credit for the work they did together.
Mary Horner Lyell
Mary was a significant but uncredited contributor to her husband Charles’s 1830s book, Principles of Geology. She is also known for her studies on evolution, having worked with Charles Darwin and conducted a study in 1854 of Canary Island’s land snails comparable to Darwin’s of Galapagos tortoises.
Mary Anne Stebbing
British botanist and illustrator
Mary Vaux Walcott
In 2019, Smithsonian Data Science Lab fellow Tiana Curry found that dozens of botanical samples collected by natural historian, botanist, and artist Mary Vaux Walcott were listed under Mary’s husband’s name in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History database.
Roberta Eike
Roberta Eike, a biology graduate student, risked her Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) fellowship by sneaking aboard a WHOI vessel after repeatedly being denied opportunities to go to sea.
Ruth Teitelbaum
In the 1940s, Kathleen Antonelli, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances “Betty” Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, and Ruth Teitelbaum collaborated to program ENIAC, the world’s first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.