Betsey Harris
Enslaved African-American woman who was medically experimented on
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Lucy Zimmerman
Enslaved African-American woman who was medically experimented on
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
While William Moulton Marston is credited as the creator of Wonder Woman, his wife Elizabeth and their polyamorous partner Olive Byrne were highly influential in her development, to the point that when Marston first raised the idea of creating a comic book hero, Elizabeth reportedly said, “Fine—but make her a woman.”
Erika Cremer
During World War II, physical chemist Erika Cremer was working in Nazi-occupied Austria, developing solid-state gas adsorption chromatography.
Donna Strickland
In 2018, Strickland became the first woman in 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in physics.
Dr Dora Henry
During World War II, the U.S. Navy was trying to find a solution for “fouling”—when barnacles attach to ship hulls en masse, which slows the ship and increases fuel consumption. Yet when Dr. Dora Henry, the leading expert in the country, if not the world, on barnacles offered her services to help with the research, the men in charge declined.
Eileen Guppy
Brisith geologist
Eleanor Glanville
1600s English entomologist
Elena Galpern
Russian Academy of Sciences computational chemist Elena Galpern made the first computational prediction of C60’s stable structure. Her paper was published in Russia in 1973.
Elizabeth Bugie
In 1944, Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie and Selman Waksman published their discovery of streptomycin, yet when Waksman and Schatz patented it, her name was left off the application.