Caroline Furness
Director of the Vassar College Observatory in the early 1900s
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Alice Davis
Secretary and Librarian at the Allegheny Observatory
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Astronomy philanthropist
Ada A Achorn
American osteopath
Adelaide George Bennett
American poet
Dr Fanny Berlin
Dr. Fanny Berlin (1852-1921) traveled from her home in Ukraine to medical school in Switzerland, one of the few medical schools that would accept women at the time. She emigrated to the United States right after graduating and worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, one of the few hospitals who treated immigrant women.
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist
Dr Agnes Wells
Agnes Wells was an American mathematician and astronomer who worked during the first half of the 20th century. She spent most of her career expertly guiding women students and trying to improve the status of women in American society.
Adelaide Ames
Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900-June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1923 to 1932. She is best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae.
Jane Wadsworth
Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.