Dr Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist who made groundbreaking contributions to bacterial genetics, including discovering the λ bacteriophage and the F fertility factor and developing the replica plating technique.
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May-Britt Moser
Nobel-winning Norwegian neuroscientist
Mārama Russell
Ngāpuhi and Te Roroa tohunga, midwife, woman of mana
Hilary Stevenson
Irish food scientist
Sulamith Goldhaber
High-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist; a world expert on the interactions of K+ mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to them.
Susie King Taylor
The first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, she became the earliest African-American woman to self-publish her memoirs.
Tilly Edinger
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.
Marcella LeBeau
Prominent Lakota woman celebrated for her service as a nurse and military veteran.
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Pioneering geneticist renowned for her contributions to the field of developmental genetics.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”