Inge Lehmann
A 1929 earthquake led Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann to theorize (correctly) about the structure of the Earth’s core
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Dr Janet Rowley
“Janet Rowley’s work established that cancer is a genetic disease. She demonstrated that mutations in critical genes lead to specific forms of leukemia and lymphoma, and that one can determine the form of cancer present in a patient directly from the genetic changes in the cancer. We are still working from her paradigm.”
Dr Carmel Harrington
In the U.S., sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, accounts for more than one-third of sudden unexpected infant deaths. Almost three decades after losing her own son, Damien, Dr. Carmel Harrington and her team made a major breakthrough in 2022.
Dr Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist who won a Nobel Prize for her work developing CRISPR gene editing
Dr June McCarroll
June McCarroll was a doctor in early 1900s Indio, California, a “tiny, tough-talking lady who often strapped on a six-shooter to make house calls.” But for all the good she did as a physician, she saved far more lives by taking up the cause of road safety when she was 40 and semi-retired.
Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier
Nobel-winning biochemist who co-developed CRISPR gene editing technology
Elizabeth Stern
From the 1920s to the 2000s, the incidence of cervical cancers in the United States dropped by at least 70 percent, thanks in no small part to pathologist Elizabeth Stern.
Beatrice Mintz
Dr. Beatrice Mintz was a groundbreaking cancer researcher and embryologist who helped increase our understanding of mammalian development.
Margaret Geller
American astrophysicist