find by nationality

The topic of nationality is an understandably tricky one. Afterall, how do you define nationality? Is it where you were born? Where you died? Where you lived the majority of your life? Or maybe it’s where your parents were born but were forced to leave. The question of nationality of individuals becomes trickier still when you are discussing individuals who have been dead for centuries, and whose countries may no longer exist. Some may think that the question of whether Hypatia was Greek or Egyptian is an academic argument, but in the case of representation (and the whole purpose of this site is at its core about visible representation), getting it right is of the upmost importance.

Here, the scientists’ nationalities are defined based on the consensus information. I have listed a fair few as joint nationals based on emigration/immigration, not legal status (any mistakes with hyphenation of nationality is authors own). Some have also been characterised by place of birth in the modern country (e.g., Austria-Hungarian versus Czech; Babylonian versus Turkish).

It is also worth stating that ‘American’ is by far the most common nationality here, despite being a relatively new country. Whilst this is neither the time or the place to discuss the prevalence of American’s in the list, it cannot be denied that a fair number on the list are immigrants to the US who have then benefitted from either the education or industry that was then offered to them.

  • Magda Ericson (1926 -) - French-Algerian Nuclear Phyisicist

  • Sybilla Masters (1675 - 1720) - American Inventor of the Corn Mill

    Martha Daniell Logan (1704 - 1779) - Botanist

    Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722 - 1793) - Agriculturist

    Jane Colden (1724 - 1766) - Botanist

    Mary Kies (1752 - 1837) - Inventor

    Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755 - 1814) - Possible Contributor to the Invention of Cotton Gin with Eli Whitney

    Hannah Slater (1774 - 1812) - Inventor

    Tabitha Babbitt (1779 - 1853) - Inventor of the Circular Saw

    Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793 - 1884) - Botanist

    Mary Brush (fl. 1815) - Inventor

    Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) - Astronomer

    Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - British-American Physician

    Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822 - 1907) - Naturalist

    Emily Blackwell (1826 - 1910) - Physician

    Martha Jane Coston (1826 - 1904) - Inventor of the Coston Flare

    Mary Walton (c. 1827-?) - Inventor

    Mary Treat (1830 - 1923) - Naturalist

    Harriet Mann Miller (Olive Thorne Miller) (1831 - 1918) - Naturalist and Ornithologist

    Mary Walker (1832 - 1919) - Surgeon

    Lucy Hobbs Taylor (1833 - 1910) - Dentist

    Susan Hallowell (1835 - 1911) - America Botanist

    Maria Beasley (1836 - 1913) - Inventor

    Mary Albertson (1838 - 1914) - Botanist and Astronomer

    Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 - 1923) - Ethnologist

    Margaret E. Knight (1838 - 1914) - Inventor

    Josephine Garis Cochrane (1839 - 1913) - Inventor

    Rachel Lloyd (1839 - 1900) - Chemist

    Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842 - 1906) - Physician

    Ellen Swallow Richards (1842 - 1911) - Industrial and Environmental Chemist

    Emily Roebling (1844 - 1903) - Civil Engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge

    Sarah Frances Whiting (1846 - 1927) - Physicist and Astronomer

    Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847 - 1930) - Psychologist, Logician and Mathematician

    Mary Watson Whitney (1847 - 1921) - Astronomer and Head of the Vassar Observatory

    Ellen F. Eglin (c. 1848 - 1890) - Inventor

    Mary Murtfeldt (1848 - 1913) - Entomologist

    Cornelia Clapp (1849 - 1934) - Zoologist and Marine Biologist

    Ellen Hayes (1851 - 1930) - Mathematician and Astronomer

    Letitia Geer (1852 - 1935) - Nurse and Inventor of the Modern Syringe

    Clara Southmayd Ludlow (1852 - 1924) - Medical Entomologist

    Laura Alberta Linton (1853 - 1915) - Chemist

    Anna Botsford Comstock (1854 - 1930) - Conservationist

    Elizabeth Gifford Peckham (1854 - 1940) - Arachnologist, and Entomologist

    Clara Eaton Cummings (1855 - 1906) - Botanist

    Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857 - 1945) - Physiologist and Inventor of Micro-Electrode

    Zelia Nuttall (1857 - 1933) - Archaeologist

    Anna Winlock (1857 - 1904) - Astronomer and ‘Human Computer’

    Elizabeth Bragg (1858 - 1929) - Structural Engineer

    Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858 - 1934) - Botanist

    Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858 - 1947) - Ichthyologist

    Fanny Bullock Workman (1859 - 1925) - Geographer, Cartographer, and Explorer

    Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt (1859 - 1928) - Pathologist

    Marcia Keith (1859 - 1950) - Physics Teacher

    Josephine Silone Yates (1859 - 1912) - Chemist

    Florence Cushman (1860 - 1940) - Astronomer

    Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860 - 1944) - Physicist

    Mary J. Rathbun (1860 - 1943) - Zoologist

    Dorothea Klumpke-Robert (1861 - 1942) - Astronomer

    Nettie Stevens (1861 - 1912) - Geneticist

    Zonia Baber (1862 - 1955) - Geologist

    Florence Bascom (1862-1945) - Geologist

    Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - Astronomer

    Ellen Churchill Semple (1863 - 1932) - Geographer

    Anna Wessels Williams (1863 - 1954) - Microbiologist

    Kate Gleason (1865 - 1933) - Engineer

    E. Lilian Todd (1865 - 1937) - Airplane Designer

    Mary Anderson (1866 - 1953) - Inventor of the Windshield Wiper Blade

    Antonia Coetana Maury (1866 - 1952) - Astronomer

    Isabelle Stone (1868 - 1944) - Physicist

    Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921) - Astronomer

    Mary Agnes Meara Chase (1869 - 1963) - Botanist

    Helen Dean King (1869 - 1955) - Biologist

    Emilie Martin (1869 - 1936) - Mathematician

    Elmina T. Wilson (1870 - 1918) - Structural Engineer;

    Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871 - 1945) - Archaeologist

    Florence R. Sabin (1871 - 1953) - Medical Scientist

    Elizabeth F. Fisher (1872 - 1941) - Geologist

    Fanny Gates (1872 - 1931) - Physicist

    Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) - Bacteriological Chemist

    Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (1872 - 1952) - Mycologist

    Sara Josephine Baker (1873 - 1945) - Physician and Public Health Pioneer

    Florence Parpart (1873 - 1930) - Inventor of the Refrigerator

    Alda H. Wilson (1873 - 1960) - Structural Engineer;

    Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis (1874 - 1956) - Botanist

    Edith Marion Patch (1876 - 1954) - Entomologist

    Sophia Eckerson (1880 - 1954)- Botanist and Microchemist

    Alice Catherine Evans (1881 - 1975) - Microbiologist

    Eleanor Carothers (1882 - 1957) - Zoologist and Geneticist

    Ann Haven Morgan (1882 - 1966) - Zoologist and Ecologist

    Alice Middleton Boring (1883 - 1955) - Zoologist

    Ethel Browne Harvey (1885 - 1965) - Embryologist

    Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885 - 1975) - Chemist and Inventor

    Winifred Goldring (1888 - 1971) - Palaeontologist

    Sara Branham Matthews (1888 - 1962) - Microbiologist and Physician

    Lucy Wilson (1888 - 1980) - Physicist

    Euphemia Haynes (1890 - 1980) - Mathematician

    Pearl Kendrick (1890 - 1980) - Bacteriologist

    Elizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981) - Hungarian-American Chemist

    Edith Quimby (1891 - 1982) - Medical Researcher and Nuclear Physicist

    A. Elizabeth Adams (1892 - 1962) - Zoologist

    Alice Ball (1892 - 1916) - Pharmaceutical Chemist

    Maude Bennot (1892 - 1982) - Director of the Adler Planetarium

    Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893 - 1950) - Botanist

    Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1893 - 1973) - German-American Pathologist

    Helen S. Mitchell (1895 - 1984) - Nutritionist

    Alice H. Parker (1895 - 1920) - Inventor of the Gas Furnace

    Marguerite Williams (1895 - 1991) - Geologist

    Gerty Cori (1896 - 1957) – Czech-America Biochemist

    Hazel K. Stiebeling (1896 - 1989) - Nutritionist

    Isabel Bassett Wasson (1897 - 1994) - Petroleum Geologist

    Lucile Quarry Mann (1897 - 1986) - American Zoologist

    Katharine Blodgett (1898 - 1979) - Physicist

    Doris Mable Cochran (1898 - 1968) - Herpetologist

    Rachel Fuller Brown (1898 - 1980)- Chemist and Inventor

    Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898 - 1990) - Astronomer

    Anna Baetjer (1899 - 1984) - Physiologist and toxicologist

    Margaret Kennard (1899 - 1975) - Neurologist

    Jane Stafford (1899 - 1991) - Medical Writer and Early Science Communicator

    Mildred Trotter (1899 - 1991) - Forensic Anthropologist

    Gertrude Mary Cox (1900 - 1978) - Statistician

    Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901 - 1963) - Physician

    Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992) - Cytogeneticist

    Grace E. Pickford (1902 - 1986) - Biologist and Endocrinologist

    Mina Spiegel Rees (1902 - 1997) - Mathematician

    Katharine Way (1902 - 1995) - Physicist

    Ruby Hirose (1904 - 1960) - Chemist

    Mary Sears (1905 - 1997) - Oceanographer

    Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906 - 1996) - Mathematician

    Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992) - Computer Scientist

    Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964) - Marine Biologist and Conservationist

    Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907 - 2007) - German-American Geneticist

    Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) - Botanist and Limnologist

    Melba Phillips (1907 - 2004) - Physicist

    Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (1907 - 1997) - Pharmacist

    Myrtle Bachelder (1908 - 1997) - Chemist; Researcher on the Manhattan Project

    Mary Golda Ross (1908 – 2008) - Aerospace engineer

    Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974) - Obstetrical Anaesthesiologist

    Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910 – 1993) - Microbiologist

    Dorothy Vaughan (1910 - 2008) - Mathematician

    Klára Dán von Neumann (1911 - 1963) - Hungarian-American Computer Programmer

    Anna J. Harrison (1912 - 1998) - Organic Chemist

    Mildred Cohn (1913 - 2009) - Biochemist

    SisterMary Kenneth Keller (1913 - 1985) - Computer Scientist

    Elizabeth S. Russell (1913 – 2001) - Geneticist

    Florence van Straten (1913 - 1992) - Aerological Engineer

    Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914 - 1988) - Mathematician

    Ruth Turner (1914 – 2000) - Marine biologist

    Ruth Benerito (1926 - 2013) - Inventor and Chemist

    Betty Holberton (1917 - 2001) - Computer Programmer

    Carolyn Parker (1917 - 1966) - Physicist

    Gertrude B. Elion (1918 - 1999) - Biochemist and Pharmacologist

    Katherine Johnson (1918 - 2020) - Physicist and Mathematician

    Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919 - 2004) - Surgeon

    Henriette Davidson Avram (1919 - 2006) - Cmputer Programmer

    Mildred Rebstock (1919 - 2011) - Chemist

    Leona Woods (1919 - 1986) - Physicist

    Jane C. Wright (1919 - 2013) - Cancer Researcher

    Adele Goldstine (1920 - 1964) - Computer Programmer

    Frances Meehan Latterell (1920 - 2008) - Plant Pathologist

    Louise Reiss (1920 - 2011) - Physician

    Marie Tharp (1920 - 2006) - Geologist and Cartographer

    Phyllis S. Freier (1921 - 1992) - Astrophysicist

    Joan Hinton (1921 - 2010) - Nuclear Physicist

    Mary Jackson (1921 - 2005) - Engineer

    Marian Koshland (1921 - 1997) - Immunologist

    Beatrice Mintz (1921- 2022) - Embryologist

    Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921 - 2011) - Medical Physicist

    Giuliana Tesoro (1921 – 2002) - Italian-American Chemist

    Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922 - 1999) - Inventor of Home Security Devices

    Eugenie Clark (1922 - 2015)- Ichthyologist

    Esther M. Conwell (1922 - 2014) - Physicist

    Evans Hayward (1922 - 2020) - Physicist

    Ester Lederberg (1922 - 2006) - Microbiologist and Pioneer in Bacterial Genetics

    Frances Spence (1922 - 2012) - Computer Programmer

    Sulamith Goldhaber (1923 - 1965) - Physicist

    Marlyn Meltzer (1922 - 2008) - Computer Programmer

    Stephanie Kwolek (1923 - 2014) - Chemist and Inventor

    Joanne Simpson (1923 - 2010) - Meteorologist

    Jean Bartik (1924 - 2011) - Computer Programmer

    Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924 - 2023) - Mathematician

    Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924 - 2017) - Cancer Researcher

    Ruth Teitelbaum (1924 - 1986) - Computer Programmer

    Bette Nesmith Graham (1924 - 1980) - Inventor of Correction Fluid

    Evelyn Berezin (1925 - 2018) - Computer Engineer

    Nancy Roman (1925 – 2018) - Astronomer

    Janet Davidson Rowley (1925 - 2013) - Geneticist

    Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925 - 1983) - Chemist and Bioinformatician

    Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926 - 2012) - Nuclear Physicist

    Marian Diamond (1926 - 2017) - Neuroscientist

    Claire Fagin (1926 -) - Nurse and Nursing Educator

    Darleane C. Hoffman (1926 -) - Chemist

    Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1927 - 2020) - Plasma Physicist

    Martha Chase (1927 - 2003) - Geneticist

    Ursula M. Cowgill (1927 - 2015) - Anthropologist and Biologist

    Betty Hay (1927 - 2007) - Developmental Biologist

    Frances Hugle (1927 - 1968) - Engineer and Inventor of Tape Automated Bonding

    Gertrude Neumark (1927 - 2010) - Physicist

    Margaret G. Kivelson (1928 -) - Planetary Scientist and Space Physicist

    Vera Rubin (1928 - 2016) - Astronomer

    Jean E. Sammet (1928 - 2017) - Computer Scientist

    Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928 - 1984) - Italian-American Experimental Nuclear Physicist

    Dorothea Bennett (1929 - 1990) - Geneticist and Developmental Biologist

    Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929 - 2024) - Canadian-American Mathematician

    Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929 - 2016) - Chemist

    Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929 – 2021) - Astronomer

    Carolyne Van Vliet (1929 - 2016) - Dutch-American Physicist

    Nina Byers (1930 - 2014) - Theoretical Physicist

    Hester A. Davis (1930 - 2014) - Archaeologist

    Mildred Dresselhaus (1930 - 2017) - Physicist

    Patsy Sherman (1930 - 2008) - Chemist

    Gladys West (1930 -) - Mathematician

    Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931 -) - Information Scientist

    Maxine Singer (1931 - 2024) - Molecular Biologist

    Frances Allen (1932 - 2020) - Computer Scientist

    Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985) - Zoologist and Primatologist

    Caroline Herzenberg (1932 -) - Physicist and Science Historian

    Marcia Neugebauer (1932 -) - Geologist and Space Physicist

    Annie Easley (1933 - 2011) - Rocket and Computer Scientist

    Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933 - 2014) - Particle Physicist

    Myriam Sarachik (1933 - 2021) - Belgian-American Physicist

    Etta Zuber Falconer (1933 - 2002) - Mathematics Lecturer

    Sylvia Earle (1935 -) - Marine Biologist

    Evelyn Fox Keller (1936 - 2023) - Physicist and Author

    Helen T. Edwards (1936 - 2016) - Physicist

    Alison Jolly (1937 - 2014) - Primatologist

    Lynn Conway (1938 - 2024) - Computer Scientist

    Nancy M. Dowdy (1938 -) - Nuclear Physicist

    Judy Franz (1938 -) - Physicist

    Margaret Hamilton (1938 -) - Computer Scientist and Mathematician

    Lynn Margulis (1938 - 2011) - Biologist

    Sheila Widnall (1938 -) - Aerospace Researcher

    Dana Ulery (1938 -) - Computer Scientist

    Barbara Askins (1939 -) - NASA Chemist

    Mary-Dell Chilton (1939 -) - Biologist and Botanist

    Mary K. Gaillard (1939 -) - America Particle Physicist

    Judith Goslin Hall (1939 -) - Clinical Geneticist

    Barbara Liskov (1939 -) - Computer Scientist

    Mina Bissell (1940 -) - Iranian-American Breast Cancer Researcher

    Evi Nemeth (1940 - 2013) - Computer Engineer

    Lucy Shapiro (1940 -) - Developmental Biologist

    Sau Lan Wu (c.1940s -) – Chinese American Physicist

    Jane Richardson (1941 -) - Biophysicist

    Joan A. Steitz (1941 -) - Biochemist and Molecular Biologist

    Ann Kiessling (1942 -) - Reproductive Biologist

    Anita Roberts (1942 - 2006) - Molecular Biologist

    Kathleen C. Taylor (1942 -) – Chemist

    Elisabeth Vrba (1942 -) -Palaeontologist

    Helen M. Berman (1943 -) - Structural Biologist

    Brigid Hogan (1943 -) – British American Developmental Biologist

    Nancy Hopkins (1943 -) - Molecular Biologist

    Valerie Thomas (1943 -) - Inventor

    Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -) - Astrophysicist

    Bernadine Healy (1944 - 2011) - Physician

    Gail R. Martin (1944 -) – Developmental Biologist

    Margaret W. Rossiter (1944 -) - Science Historian

    Jill Tarter (1944 -) - Astronomer

    Adele Goldberg (1945 - ) - Computer Scientist

    Nancy Wexler (1945 -) - Geneticist

    Anna Curenius Roosevelt (1946 -) - Archaeologist

    Shirley Ann Jackson (1946 -) - Physicist

    Mary-Claire King (1946 -) - Geneticist

    Joan Roughgarden (1946 -) - Evolutionary Biologist

    Linda B. Buck (1947 -) - Biologist

    Mary L. Cleave (1947 - ) - Engineer and Astronaut

    Temple Grandin (1947 -) - Animal Scientist

    Gail Hanson (1947 -) - Experimental Particle Physicist

    Jane Lubchenco (1947 -) - Environmental Scientist

    Barbara A. Schaal (1947 -) - Evolutionary Scientist

    Elizabeth Blackburn (1948 -) - Australian-American Molecular Biologist

    Karen Wetterhahn (1948 - 1997) - Chemist

    Danielle Bunten Berry (1949 - 1998) - Game Designer and Computer Programmer

    Fan Chung (1949 -) - Taiwanese -American Mathematician

    Ann Druyan (1949 -) - Author

    Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

    Sue Hendrickson (1949 -) - Palaeontologist

    Susan Lindquist (1949 - 2016) - Molecular Biologist

    Barbara J. Meyer (1949 -) - Geneticist

    Judith Resnik (1949 - 1986) - Engineer and NASA Astronaut

    Louise Dolan (1950 -) - Mathematical Physicist

    Elaine Fuchs (1950 -) - Cell Biologist

    Martha P. Haynes (1951 -) - Astronomer and Astrophysicist

    Susan Hockfield (1951 -) - Neurobiologist

    Marcia McNutt (1951 -) - Geophysicists

    Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) - Physicist and Astronaut

    Kathyrn D. Sullivan (1951-) - Geologist and Astronaut

    Carolyn Porco (1953 -) - Planetary and Imagery Scientist

    Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (1955 - ) Forensic Scientist

    Claire M. Fraser (1955 -) - Microbiologist

    Katalin Karikó (1955 -) Hungarian-American Biochemist

    Cynthia Jane Kenyon (1955 -) - Molecular Biologist

    Frances Arnold (1956 -) - Chemical Engineer

    Pamela J. Bjorkman (1956 -) - Chemist

    Mae Jemison (1956 -) - Physician and Astronaut

    Penny Sackett (1956 -) - American-Australian Astronomer

    Susan Solomon (1956 -) - Atmospheric Chemist

    Lynn Rothschild (1957 -) - Evolutionary Biologist and Astrobiologist

    Susan Helms (1958 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

    Ann Nelson (1958 - 2019) - Particle Physicist

    Ellen Ochoa (1958 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

    Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1958 -) - Climatologist

    Maria Zuber (1958 -) - Planetary Scientist

    Claudia Alexander (1959 - 2015) - Geophysicist and Planetary Scientist

    Anita Borg (1959 - 2003) - Computer Programmer

    Andrea Brand (1959 -) - Molecular and Developmental Biologist

    Danese Cooper (1959 -) - Computer Scientist and Programmer

    Deborah Estrin (1959 -) - Computer Scientist

    Shafi Goldwasser1959 - Israeli-American Computer scientist

    Arati Prabhakar (1959 -) - Engineer

    Joanne Pransky (1959 - 2023) - Roboticist, ‘Robotic Psychiatrist’

    Linda Avey (1960 -) - Biologist

    Catherine Coleman (1960 -) - Chemist and Astronaut

    Beth Levine (1960 - 2020) - Microbiologist

    Peggy Whitson (1960 -) - Biochemist and Astronaut

    Carol W. Greider (1961 -) - Molecular Biologist

    Lisa Randall (1962 -) - Theoretical Physicist

    Jane Luu (1963 - ) Vietnamese-American Astronomer

    Misha Mahowald (1963 - 1996) - Computational Neurologist

    Daniela L. Rus (1963 - ) - Roboticist

    Jennifer Doudna (1964 -) - Biochemist, CRISPR

    Dawn Prince-Hughes (1964 -) - Anthropologist, Primatologist and Ethologist

    Andrea Ghez (1965 -) - Astronomer

    Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966 -) - Chemist

    Jaime Levy (1966 -) - Software Designer

    Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (1967 -) - Robotics Engineer

    MiMi Aung (1968 -) - Burmese-American Engineer

    Daphne Koller (1968 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist

    Deborah S. Jin (1968 -) - Physicist

    Maria Fadiman (1969 -) - Ethnobotanist

    Hope Jahren (1969) - Geochemist

    Dana Angluin (fl. 1970s) - Computer Scientist

    Nicole King (1970 -) - Biologist

    Sara Seager (1971 -) - Canadian-American Astronomer and Planetary Scientist

    Ayanna Howard (1972 -) - Roboticist

    Pamela Gay (1973 -) - Astronomer and Writer

    Anita Goel (1973 -) - Physician, Physicist in Nanotechnology

    Pardis Sabeti (1975 -) - Iranian-American Computational Biologist

    Beth Shapiro (1976 - ) - Evolutionary Biologist

    Jessica Meir (1977 -) - Marine Biologist and Astronaut

    Melissa Trainer (1978 -) - Astrobiologist

    Christina Koch (1979 -) - Electrical Engineer and Astronaut

    Sirisha Bandla (1988 -) - Indian - American Aeronautical Engineer

    Katie Bouman (1989 -) - Engineer and Computer Scientist

    Joy Crisp (fl. 1989) - Planetary Geologist

    Ellen Spertus (fl. 1990s) - Computer Scientist

    Lauren Gardner (fl. 2000s) - Engineer

    Jane Rigby (fl. 2000s) - Palaeontologist

    Mary Higby Schweitzer (fl. 2000s) - Palaeontologist

    Mary Voytek (fl.2000s) - Astrobiologist

  • Peseshet (c. 2500 BC) - Physician

    Mary the Prophetess (c. 100 - 300 AD) - Alchemist

    Cleopatra the Alchemist (c. 3rd Century AD) - Alchemist, and Author

    Hypatia (c. 355 - 415 AD) - Philosopher and Mathematician

  • Agamede (c. 1200 BC) - Physician

    Theano (c. 600 BC) - Pythagorean Philosopher

    Agnodice (c. 400 BC) - Physician, Midwife, and Gynaecologist

    Pythias the Elder (c. 381 - 326 BC) - Biologist

    Aglaonice (c. 200 BC) - Cited as the 1st Female Astronomer in Ancient Greece

    Cleopatra the Physician (c. 100 AD) - Medical Writer

    Metrodora (c. 300 AD) - Physician

    Pandrosion (c. 300 - 360 AD) - Mathematician

  • Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866 - 1952) - Physicist

    Mercedes Doretti (1959 -) - Forensic Anthropologist

    Cecilia Bouzat (1961 -) - Neuroscientist

  • Louisa Atkinson (1834 - 1872) - Botanist

    Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967) - Medical Doctor and Educator

    Jean Macnamara (1899 - 1968) - Medical Doctor

    Dorothy Hill (1907 - 1997) - Geologist

    Isobel Bennett (1909 - 2008) - Marine Biologist

    Ruby Payne-Scott (1912 - 1981) - Radiophysicist

    Ruth Sanger (1918 - 2001) - Haematologist and Serologist

    Bridget Ogilvie (1938 -) - Parasitologist

    Suzanne Cory (1942 -) - Biologist

    Helen Quinn (1943 -) - Particle Physicist

    Patricia Vickers-Rich (1944 -) - Palaeontologist

    Valerie Beral (1946 - 2022) - Cancer Epidemiologist

    Fiona Stanley (1946 -) - Epidemiologist and Public Health worker

    Elizabeth Blackburn (1948 -) - Australian-American Molecular Biologist

    Anne Dell (1950 -) - Biochemist

    Penny Sackett (1956 -) - American-Australian Astronomer

    Fiona Wood (1958 -) - British-Australian Plastic Surgeon

    Amanda Barnard (1971 -) - Theoretical Physicist

  • Ida Freund (1863 - 1914) - University Chemistry Lecturer

    Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) - Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist

    Gabriele Rabel (1880 - 1963) - Physicist and Botanist

    Marietta Blau (1894 - 1970) - Physicist

    Hertha Wambacher (1903 - 1950) - Physicist

    Berta Karlik (1904 - 1990) - Physicist

    Irene K. Fischer (1907 - 2009) - Mathematician

    Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austro-Hungarian-Born American Inventor of Frequency Hopping

    Noemie Benczer Koller (1933 -) - Austrian-Born Nuclear Physicist

    Claire F. Gmachi (1967 -) - Electrical Engineer

    Lisa Kaltenegger (1977 -) - Astronomer Focusing on the Search for Life

  • Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist

    Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician

    Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austro-Hungarian Inventor of Frequency Hopping

  • Tapputi-Belatekallim (c. 2000 BC) - Chemist

  • Marie-Anne Libert (1782 - 1865) - Botanist and Mycologist

    Isala Van Diest (1842 - 1916) - Physician

    Suzanne LeClercq (1901 - 1994) - Palaeobotanist

    Myriam Sarachik (1933 - 2021) - Belgian-American Physicist

    Ingrid Daubechies (1954 -) - Physicist and Mathematician

  • Sonia Alconini (1965 -) - Archaeologist

  • Marie Josefina Mathilde Durocher (1809 - 1893)- Obstetrician

    Emilie Snethlage (1868 - 1929) - Naturalist and Ornithologist

    Maria Carmela Lico (1927 - 1985) - Italian-Brazilian Physiologist and Behaviour Neuroscientist

  • Elinor Sneshell (c. 1593) - English Barber Surgeon

    Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) - English Philosopher, Writer, and Publisher of Early Modern Science

    Elizabeth Walker (1623 - 1690) - English Pharmacist

    Eleanor Glanville (1654 - 1709) - English Entomologist

    Jane Sharp (fl. 1671) - English Midwife

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) - English Pioneer of Modern Medicine by the Use of Variolation

    Margaret Bryan (c.1759 - 1836) - English Author and Teacher

    Amelia Griffiths (1768 - 1858) - English Phycologist

    Jane Marcet (1769 - 1858) - English Writer of Popular Science Books

    Etheldred Benett (1776 - 1845) - English Geologist

    Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 - 1839) - English Adventurer and Archaeologist

    Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778 - 1865) - British-Irish Botanist

    Anna Maria Walker (c. 1778 - 1852) - Scottish Botanist

    Elizabeth Philpot (1780 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist

    Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Scottish Astronomer and Science Writer

    Mary Anne Whitby (1784 - 1850) - English Silkworm Cultivator

    Charlotte Murchison (1788 - 1869) - Scottish Geologist

    Frances Acton (1794 - 1881) - English Botanist

    Elizabeth Fulhame (c. 1794) - Scottish Chemist

    Mary Buckland (1797 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist

    Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) - English Fossil Collector and Palaeontologist

    Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) - English Botanist and Photographer

    Anna Maria Hussey (1805 - 1853) - English Mycologist

    Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852) - English Mathematician

    Elizabeth Carne (1817 - 1873) - English Geologist and Mineralogist

    Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - English Statistician and Founder of Modern Nursing

    Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - British-American Physician

    Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828 - 1901) - English Entomologist

    Elizabeth Brown (1830 - 1899) - Astronomer

    Isabella Bird (1831 - 1904) - English Explorer and Naturalist

    Mary Everest Boole (1832 - 1916) - English Mathematician

    Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) - English Physician

    Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 - 1912) - English Physician and Teacher

    Marian Farquharson (1846 - 1912) - English Naturalist

    Isis Pogson (1852 - 1945) - English Astronomer and Meteorologist

    Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 - 1923) - English Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist, and Inventor

    Annie Lorrain Smith (1854 - 1937) - English Lichenologist

    Williamina Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Scottish Astronomer

    Mary Adela Blagg (1858 - 1944) - English Astronomer

    Grace Frankland (1858 - 1946) - English Microbiologist

    Charlotte Scott (1858 - 1931) - English Mathematician

    Margaret Crosfield (1859 - 1952) - English Palaeontologist

    Margaret Fountaine (1862 - 1940) - English Lepidopterist

    Margaret Alice Murray (1863 - 1963) - English Egyptologist, Archaeologist, and Anthropologist

    Ethel Sargant (1863 - 1918) - English Botanist

    Maria Gordon (1864 - 1939) - Scottish Geologist

    Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) - English Natural Scientist

    Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926) - English Explorer and Archaeologist

    Philippa Fawcett (1868 - 1948) - English Mathematician

    Grace Chisholm Young (1868 - 1944) - English Mathematician

    Maud Cunnington (1869 - 1951) - Welsh Archaeologist

    Ethel Shakespear (1871 - 1946) - English Geologist

    Louisa Martindale (1872 - 1966) - English Physician and Surgeon

    Nora Lilian Alcock (1874 - 1972) - English Plant Pathologist

    Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874 - 1934) - English Surgeon

    Edith Humphrey (1875 - 1978) - English Inorganic Chemist

    Gabrielle Howard (1876 - 1930) - English Plant Physiologist

    Alice Grace Cook (1877 - 1958) - English Astronomer

    Florence Annie Yeldham (1877 - 1945) - English Mathematics Historian

    Theodora Lisle Prankerd (1878 - 1939) - English Botanist

    Agnes Arber (1879 - 1960) -English Botanist

    Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879 - 1967) English Botanist

    Marie Stopes (1880 - 1958) - Palaeobotanist

    Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880 - 1932) - English Biochemist

    Muriel Robertson (1883 - 1973) - Scottish Protozoologist and bacteriologist

    Marjory Stephenson (1885 - 1948) - English Biochemist and Microbiologist

    Eileen Hendriks (1887 - 1978) - English Geologist

    Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888 - 1985) - English Archaeologist

    Lucy Wills (1888 - 1964) - English Haematologist

    Annie Meinertzhagen (1889 - 1928) - Scottish Ornithologist

    Dorothy Garrod (1892 - 1968) - English Archaeologist

    Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894 - 1976) - English Mathematician and Biochemist

    Maria Gordon (1896 - 1939) - Scottish Geologist and Palaeontologist

    Sheina Marshall (1896 - 1977) - Scottish Marine Zoologist

    Dorothy M. Needham (1896 - 1987) - English Biochemist

    Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897 - 1931) - English Zoologist and herpetologist

    Ann Bishop (1899 - 1990) - English Biologist and Parasitologist

    Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899 - 2001)- Scottish Chemist

    Helen Porter (1899 - 1987) - English Botanist

    Janet Vaughan (1899 - 1993) - Physiologist

    Mary L. Cartwright (1900 - 1998) - English Mathematician

    Honor Fell (1900 - 1986) - English Developer of Tissue Culture

    Cecilia Payne-Gaposchikin (1900 - 1979) - Astronomer and Astrophysicist

    Isabella Gordon (1901 - 1988) - Scottish Marine Biologist

    Marion Cameron Gray (1902 - 1979) - Scottish Mathematician

    Sidnie Manton (1902 - 1979) - Entomologist and Zoologist

    Mary Pickford (1902 - 2002) - Neuroendocrinologist

    Edith Bülbring (1903 - 1990) - Pharmacologist

    Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 - 1971) - Crystallographer

    Bertha Swirles (1903 - 1999) - Physicist

    Irene Manton (1904 - 1988) - Botanist

    Kathleen Kenyon (1906 - 1978) - Archaeologist

    F. Gwendolen Rees (1906 - 1994) - Welsh Zoologist and Parasitologist

    Alice Stewart (1906 - 2002) - Physician and Epidemiologist

    Joan du Plat Taylor (1906 – 1983) Archaeologist

    Elsie Widdowson (1906 - 2000) - Dietitian

    Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907 - 1990) - Biochemist

    Mary Parke (1908 - 1989) - Marine Botanist

    Miriam Rothschild (1908 - 2005) - Natural Scientist and Entomologist

    Jacquetta Hawkes (1910 - 1996) - Archaeologist

    Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994) - Biochemist

    Mary Leakey (1913 - 1996) - Paleoanthropologist

    Winifred Pennington (1915 - 2007) - Limnologist and Biologist

    Joan Curran (1916 – 1999) – Welsh Physicist

    Joyce Lambert (1916 - 2005) - English Botanist and Stratigrapher

    Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (1917 - 2003) - Endocrinologist and Biochemist

    Sheila Sherlock (1918 - 2001) - Physician and Teacher

    Margaret Burbidge (1919 - 2020) - Astrophysicist

    Patricia H. Clarke (1919 - 2010) - Biochemist

    Jean Hanson (1919 - 1973) - Biophysicist and Zoologist

    Leslie Barnett (1920 - 2002) - Biologist

    Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) - Biophysicist and X-Ray Crystallographer

    Helen Muir (1920 - 2005) - Rheumatologist

    Marjorie Sweeting (1920 - 1994) - Geomorphologist

    Naomi Datta (1922 - 2008) - Geneticist and Bacteriologist

    Brigitte Askonas (1923 - 2013) - Immunologist

    Janet Watson (1923 - 1985) - Geologist

    Olga Kennard (1924 - 2023) - Crystallographer

    Mary Lee Woods (1924 - 2017) - Mathematician and Computer Programmer

    Winifred Watkins (1924 - 2003) - Biochemist

    Mary Lyon (1925 - 2014) - Geneticist

    Jannette Anderson (1927 - 2002) - Scottish Biologist and Educator

    Anne McLaren (1927 - 2007) - Developmental Biologist and Geneticist

    Margaret Rule (1928 – 2015) - Archaeologist

    June Almeida (1930 - 2007) - Scottish Virologist, Histologist and Imager

    Daphne Osborne (1930 - 2006) - Botanist and Plant Physiologist

    Margaret M. Perry (1930 - 2009) - Molecular Geneticist

    Elizabeth Warrington (1931 -) - Neuropsychologist

    Jane Goodall (1934 -) - Primatologist, Anthropologist, and Ethologist

    Patricia Jacobs (1934 -) - Scottish Geneticist

    Noreen Murray (1935 - 2011) - Molecular Geneticist

    Karen Sparck Jones (1935 - 2007) - Computer Scientist

    Rosemary Grant (1936 -) - Evolutionary Biologist

    Daphne Jackson (1936 - 1991) - Nuclear Physicist

    Lorna Casselton (1938 - 2014) - Biologist and Mycologist

    Louise Johnson (1940 - 2012) - Biochemist and Protein Crystallographer

    Anne Warner (1940 - 2012) - Biologist

    Carole Jordan (1941 -) - Astronomer

    Dianne Edwards (1942 -) - Welsh Palaeobotanist

    Julia Higgins (1942 -) - Polymer Scientist

    Meave Leakey (1942 -) - Paleoanthropologist

    Jean Thomas (1942 -) - Welsh Chemist

    Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -) - Northern Irish Astrophysicist

    Deborah Charlesworth (1943 -) - Evolutionary Biologist

    Brigid Hogan (1943 -) –British-American Developmental Biologist

    Marian Dawkins (1945 -) - Biologist

    Judith Howard (1945 -) - Biochemist and Crystallographer

    Philippa Marrack (1945 -) - Biologist and Immunologist

    Dusa McDuff (1945 -) - Mathematician

    Cheryll Tickle (1945 -) - Developmental Biologist

    Veronica van Heyningen (1946 -) - Geneticist

    Elizabeth Anionwu (1947 -) Nurse

    Jenny Clack (1947 - 2020) - Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist

    Janet Darbyshire (1947 -) - Epidemiologist and Science Administrator

    Phyllis Starkey (1947 -) - Biomedical Researcher

    Barbara Pearse (1948 -) - Biologist

    Heather Couper (1949 - 2020) - Astronomer

    Sally Davies (1949 -) - Chief Medical Officer for England 2010-2019

    Janet Thornton (1949 -) - Bioinformatician

    Jean Beggs (1950 -) - Geneticist

    Linda Partridge (1950 -) - Geneticist

    Janet Rossant (1950 -) – English Developmental Biologist

    Susan Blackmore (1951 -) - Author

    Kay Davies (1951-)- Geneticist

    Susan Greenfield (1951-) - Neurologist

    Anne Mills (1951 -) - Health Economist

    Frances Ashcroft (1952 -) - Geneticist and Physiologist

    Ann Dowling (1952 -) - Mechanical Engineer

    Anita Harding (1952 - 1995) - Irish-British Neuroscientist

    Athene Donald (1953 -) - Physicist

    Georgina Mace (1953 - 2020) - Conservational Biologist

    Susan Mary Rees (1953 -) - Mathematician

    Lesley Jane Yellowlees (1953 -) - Chemist

    Joanna Haigh (1954 -) - Physicist

    Christine Holt (1954 -) - Developmental Neuroscientist

    Anne O’Garra (1954 -) - Immunologist

    Nancy Rothwell (1955 -) - Pathologist

    Gillian Bates (1956 -) - Biologist

    Rosa Beddington (1956 - 2001) - Developmental Biologist

    A. Catrina Coleman (1956 -) - Scottish Electrical Engineer

    Carol V. Robinson (1956 -) Chemist

    Fiona Watt (1956 -) - Biologist

    Janet Hemingway (1957 -) - Vector Biologist

    Doreen Cantrell (1957 -) - Scottish Immunologist

    Elizabeth Robertson (1957 -) - Developmental Biologist

    Karen Vousden (1957 -) - Medical Researcher

    Sophie Wilson (1957 -) - Computer Scientist

    Fiona Wood (1958 -) - British-Australian Plastic Surgeon

    Frances Kirwan (1959 -) - Mathematician

    Elizabeth Simpson (fl. 1960s) - Biologist and Immunologist

    Sue Black (1961 -) - Scottish Forensic Anthropologist

    Lynn Gladden (1961 -) - Chemical Engineer

    Carole Goble (1961 -) - Computer Scientist

    Michele Dougherty (1962-) - Astrophysicist

    Sarah Gilbert (1962 -) - Vaccinologist

    Fiona Powrie (1963 -) - Immunologist

    Helen Sharman (1963 -) - Chemist

    Mandy Chessell (1965 -) - Engineer and Computer Scientist

    Edith Heard (1965 -) – British-French Geneticist

    Maggie Aderin-Pocock (1968 -) Space scientist

    Patricia Simpson (fl. 1970s) - Developmental Biologist

    Ruth Lawrence (1971 -) - British-Israeli Mathematician

    Karen Masters (1979 -) - Astrophysicist

    Amanda Gay Fisher (fl. 1980s) - Cell Biologist

    Nicola Pellow (fl. 1990s) - Computer Scientist

    Margaret A. Stanley (fl. 1990s -) - Virologist and Epithelial Biologist

    Karen P. Steel (fl. 2000s) - Biologist

  • Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897 - 1968) - Physicist

  • MiMi Aung (1968 -) - Burmese-American Engineer

    Aye Nyein Thu (1995 -) - Doctor

  • Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Physician

    Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Medical Author

  • Boghuma Kabisen Titanji (fl. 2000s) - Cameroonian Virologist and Ethics Campaigner

  • Alice Eastwood (1859 - 1953) - Botanist

    Carrie Derick (1862 - 1941) - Geneticist and Botanist

    Elizabeth Laird (1874 - 1969) - Physicist

    Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) - Nuclear Physicist

    Maud Menten (1879 - 1960) - Physician

    Alice Wilson (1881 - 1964) - Geologist and Palaeontologist

    Elsie MacGill (1905 - 1980) - Aeronautical Engineer

    Irene Ayako Uchida (1917 - 2013) - Down Syndrome Researcher

    Brenda Milner (1918 -) - Neuropsychologist

    Ursula Franklin (1921 - 2016) - Metallurgist and Physicist

    Yvonne Brill (1924 - 2013) - Rocket Scientist

    Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929 -( Canadian-American Mathematician and computer scientist

    Patricia Cladis (1937 - 2017) - Physicist and Mathematician

    Lorella M. Jones (1943 - 1995) - Physicist

    Evelyn Nelson (1943 - 1987) - Mathematician

    Roberta Bondar (1945 -) - Neurologist

    Birutė Galdikas (1946 -) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist

    Shirley Tilghman (1946 -) - Molecular Biologist

    Margaret Chan (1947 -) - Chinese-Canadian Former Director of WHO

    Melissa Franklin (1956 -) - Particle Physicist

    Claudia Alexander (1958 - 2015) - Canadian-American Geophysicist

    Donna Strickland (1959 -) - Physicist

    Victoria Kaspi (1967 -) - Astrophysicist

    Sara Seager (1971 -) - Canadian-American Astronomer and Planetary Scientist

  • María Teresa Ruis (1946 -) - Astronomer

  • Chunyu Yan (c. 1st Century BC) - Gynaecologist

    Fang (c. 1st Century BC) - Alchemist

    Bao Gu (fl. 4th Century AD) - Physician

    Keng Hsien-Seng (c. 975) - Alchemist

    Sun Bu’er (c. 1119 - 1182) - Chemist

    Tan Yunxian (1461 - 1554) - Physician

    Wang Zhenyi (1768 - 1797) - Astronomer and Mathematician

    Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997) - Experimental Physicist

    Xie Xide (1921 - 2000) - Physicist

    Tu Youyou (1930 -) - Pharmaceutical Chemist

    Sau Lan Wu (c.1940s -) – Chinese-American Physicist

    Margaret Chan (1947 -) - Chinese-Canadian Director-General of WHO 2007- 2017

  • Gloria Galeano Garcés (1958 – 2016) - Botanist

  • Josephine Kablick (1787 - 1863) - Botanist and Palaeontologist

    Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist

    Gerty Cori (1896 - 1957) – Czech-America Biochemist

    Joy Adamson (1910 - 1980) – Naturalist and Author

  • Sophia Brahe (1556 - 1643) - Horticulturalist

    Kirstine Meyer (1861 - 1941) - Physicist

    Inge Lehmann (1888 - 1993) - Seismologist

    Julie Vinter Hansen (1890 - 1960) - Astronomer

    Lene Hau (1959 -) - Physicist

    Gitte Moos Knudsen (1959 -) - Neurobiologist

    Anja Cetti Anderson (1965 -) - Astrophysicist and Author

  • Idelisa Bonnelly (1931 - 2022) - Marine Biologist

  • Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723 - 1786) - Poet and Physical Scientist

    Jacoba van den Brande (1735 - 1794) - Founder of the 1st All-Female Science Academy in the World

    Jantina Tammes (1871 - 1947) - Botanist and Geneticist

    Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasyeva (1876 - 1964) - Russian-Dutch Mathematician

    Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (1885 - 1973) - Physicist

    Lili Bleeker (1897 - 1985) - Physicist

    Bea Schwarz (1898 - 1969) - Phytopathologist

    Christine Buisman (1900 - 1936) - Phytopathologist

    Anneke Levelt Sengers (1929 -) - Physicist

    Carolyne Van Vliet (1929 - 2016) - Dutch Born American Physicist

    Marjolein Kriek (1973 -) - Clinical Geneticist

  • Eugenia Maria del Pino Veintimilla (1945 -) - Developmental Biologist

  • Sameera Moussa (1917 - 1952) - Nuclear Physicist

    Fawzia Fahim (1931 -) - Biochemist

  • Tiiu Kull (1958 -) - Botanist

  • Marie de Brimeu (c.1550-1605) - Botanist

    Alexandra Smirnoff (1838 - 1913) - Pomologist

    Liisi Oterma (1915 – 2001) - Astronomer

  • Herrad of Landsberg (c. 1130 - 1195) - Alsatian Nun and Theologian

    Magistra Hersend (c. 1249 - 1259) - Surgeon and Royal Physician

    Dame Péronelle (1292 - 1319) - Herbalist

    Peretta Peronne (fl. 1411) - Surgeon

    Guillemette du Luys (fl. 1479) - Surgeon

    Catherine de Parthenay (1554 - 1631) - Mathematician

    Louise Bourgeois Boursier (1563 - 1636) - Midwife

    Martine Bertereau (c. 1600 - after 1642) - Mineralogist

    Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 - 1680) - Chemist and Alchemist

    Marie Crous (fl. 1640) - Mathematician; Introduced Decimal System to France

    Marguerite de la Sabliere (1640 - 1693) - Hostess and Patron of Poets, Scientists and Writers

    Jeanne Dumée (1660 - 1706) - Astronomer

    Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749) - Mathematician and Physicist

    Marie Marguerite Bihéron (1719 - 1795) - Anatomist and Illustrator

    Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720 - 1805) - Chemist

    Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1792) - Astronomer and Mathematician

    Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724 - 1767) - Mathematician

    Jeanne Baret (1740 - 1807) - Explorer and Botanist

    Louise du Pierry (1746 - 1791) - Astronomer and Professor

    Marie Le Masson Le Golft (1749 - 1826) - Naturalist

    Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1758 - 1836) - Chemist

    Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande (1768 - 1832) - Astronomer and Mathematician

    Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769 - 1821) - Midwife and Gynaecologist

    Marie Boivin (1773 - 1841) - Midwife and Inventor

    Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - Mathematician and Physicist

    Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794 - 1871) - Marine Biologist

    Marie Pasteur (1826 - 1910) - Laboratory Assistant

    Clémence Royer (1830 - 1902) - French Translator of On the Origin of Species

    Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish-French Physicist and Chemist

    Raymonde de Laroche (1882 - 1919) - Engineer and Pilot

    Irene Joliot-Curie (1897 - 1956) - Physicist and Chemist

    Yvette Cauchois (1908 - 1999) - Physicist

    Marguerite Perey (1909 - 1975) - Physicist

    Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922 - 2017) - Mathematician

    Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923 -) - Mathematician and Physicist

    Marthe Gautier (1925 - 2022) Physician

    Janine Connes (1926 -)- Astronomer

    Magda Ericson (1929 -) - Nuclear Physicist

    Christiane Bonnelle (1930 - 2016) - Physicist

    Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930 -) - Developmental Biologist

    Monique Adolphe (1932 - 2022) - Cell Biologist

    Catherine Brechigac (1946 -) - Physicist

    Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947 -) - Virologist

    Polly Matzinger (1947 -) - Immunologist

    Pascale Cossart (1948 -) - Bacteriologist

    Anne L’ Huillier (1958 -) -Swedish Physicist

    Edith Heard (1965 -) – British-French Geneticist

    Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968 -) - Geneticist, Developer of CRISPR

  • Hildegard of Bingen (1099 - 1179) - Philosopher and Polymath

    Agatha Streicher (1520 - 1581) - Physician

    Helena Magenbuch (1523 - 1597) - Pharmacist

    Maria Cunitz (1610 - 1664) - German-Polish Astronomer

    Justine Siegemund (1636 - 1705) - Midwife

    Elisabeth Hevelius (1647 - 1693) - German-Polish Astronomer

    Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) - Naturalist and Scientific Illustrator

    Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670 - 1720) - Astronomer

    Maria Clara Eimmart (1676 - 1707) - Astronomer

    Christine Kirch (1696 - 1782) - Astronomer

    Dorothea Erxleben (1715 - 1762) –1st Female Medical Doctor in Germany

    Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848) - Astronomer

    Amalie Dietrich (1821 - 1891) - Naturalist

    Johanna Mestorf (1828 - 1909) - Archaeologist

    Maria Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829 - 1902) - Physician

    Agnes Pockels (1862 - 1935) - Chemist

    Emilie Snethlage (1868 - 1929) - Naturalist and Ornithologist

    Clara Immerwahr (1870 - 1915) - Chemist

    Margarete Kahn (1880 - 1942) - Mathematician

    Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) - Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist

    Hedwig Kohn (1887 - 1964) - Physicist

    Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1893 - 1973) - German-American Pathologist

    Hertha Sponer (1895 - 1968) - Physicist

    Ida Noddack (1896 - 1978) - Chemist and Physicist

    Tilly Edinger (1897 - 1967) - Palaeontologist

    Katherine Esau (1898 - 1997) - Botanist

    Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) - Embryologist

    Charlotte Auerbach (1899 - 1994) - Zoologist and Geneticist

    Grete Hermann (1901 - 1984) - Mathematician and Philosopher

    Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903 - 1974) - Mathematician and Engineer

    Maria Reiche (1903 - 1998) - Archaeologist

    Marthe Vogt (1903 - 2003) - Neuroscientist

    Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906 - 1972) - Theoretical Physicist

    Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907 - 2007) - German-American Geneticist

    Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911 - 1998) - Nuclear Physicist

    Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915 - 1981) - Physicist

    Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922 - 2010) - Metallurgist

    Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926 - 2012) - Nuclear Physicist

    Inge Schmitz Fuerhake1935 - Physicist

    Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942 -) - Developmental Biologist and Geneticist

    Hannah Monyer (1957 -) - Neurobiologist

    Ulrike Tillmann (1962 -) - Mathematician

    Antje Boetius1967 - Marine Biologist

    Dilek Gürsoy (1976 -) Heart Surgeon

    Kathrin Bringmann (1977 -) - Mathematician

  • Aspasia the Physician (c. 400 AD) - Midwife and Gynaecologist

    Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971 -) – Theoretical Physicist

  • Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist

    Zsofia Torma (1832 - 1899) - Archaeologist, Anthropologist and Paleontologist

    Elizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981) - -American Chemist

    Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician

    Maria Telkes (1900 - 1995) - Inventor in Solar Energy

    Rozsa Peter (1905 - 1977) - Mathematician

    Klára Dán von Neumann (1911 - 1963) - Hungarian-American Computer Programmer

    Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austro-Hungarian Inventor of Frequency Hopping

    Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 -) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician

    Katalin Karikó (1955 -) Hungarian-American Biochemist

  • Elsa G. Vilmundardóttir (1932 - 2008) - Geologist

  • E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897 - 1984) - Botanist

    Kamala Sohonie (1912 - 1998) - Biochemist

    Asima Chatterjee (1917 – 2006) - Organic chemist

    Kamal Ranadive (1917 - 2001) - Biomedical Scientist

    Anna Mani (1918 - 2001) - Meteorologist and Physicist

    Darshan Ranganathan (1941 - 2001) - Organic Chemist

    Kalpana Chawla (1962 - 2003) - Aerospace Engineer

    Priyamvada Natarajan (1969 -) - Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist

    Sirisha Bandla (1987 -) - Indian - American Aeronautical Engineer

  • Ālenush Teriān (1920 - 2011) - Astronomer

    Mina Bissell (1940 -) - Iranian-American Breast Cancer Researcher

    Anousheh Ansari (1966 -) - Engineer and Astronaut

    Pardis Sabeti (1975 -) - Iranian-American Computational Biologist

    Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) - Mathematician, 1st Female Winner of the Fields Medal

    Niloufar Bayani (1986 -) - Conservational Biologist

  • Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778 - 1865) - British-Irish Botanist

    Ellen Hutchins (1785 - 1815) - Botanist

    Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808 - 1872) - Algologist, Botanist, and Illustrator

    Mary Ball (1812 - 1892) - Entomologist

    Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907) - Astronomer

    Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins (1848 - 1915) - Astronomer and Pioneer in Spectroscopy

    Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868 - 1947) - Astronomer and Mathematician

    Edith Anne Stoney (1869 - 1938) - Physicist

    Alice Perry (1885 - 1969) - Civil Engineer

    Helen Megaw (1907 - 2002) - Crystallographer

    Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Antonelli (1921 - 2006) - Computer Programmer

    Yvonne Barr (1932 - 2016) - Virologist and Co-Discoverer of EBV

    Anita Harding (1952 - 1995) - Irish-British Neuroscientist

    Eleanor Maguire (1970 -) - Neuroscientist and Memory Researcher

  • Bruria Kaufman (1918 - 2010) - Theoretical Physicist

    Ruth Arnon (1933 -) - Biochemist

    Ada E. Yonath (1939 -) - Crystallographer

    Rivka Carmi (1948 -) - Paediatrician and Geneticist

    Shafi Goldwasser1959 - Israeli-American Computer scientist

    Daphne Koller (1968 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist

    Ruth Lawrence (1971 -) - British-Israeli Mathematician

  • Adelle of the Saracens (c. 12th Century) - Physician and Teacher

    Trota di Ruggiero/Ladies of Salerno (c. 12-13th Century) - A Group of Female Physicians and Medical Writers

    Abella of Salerno (c. 14th century) - Physician and Teacher

    Adelmota of Carrara (c. 14th Century) - Physician and Obstetrician

    Mercuriade (c. 14th Century) - Surgeon and Medical Author

    Rebecca de Guarna (c. 14th Century) - Surgeon

    Alessandra Giliani (c. 1307 - 1326) - Pathologist

    Jacobina Félice de Almania (fl. 1322 Century) - Physician

    Dorotea Bucca (1360 - 1436) - Physician and Chair of Medicine (University of Bologna)

    Constance Calenda (c. 1415) - Eye Surgeon

    Gentile Budrioli (d. 1498) - Astrologer

    Clarice di Durisio (c. 15th Century)- Physician

    Isabella Cortese (c.1561) - Alchemist

    Loredana Marcello (c. 1572) - Botanist

    Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 -1777) - Mathematician

    Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778) - 1st Woman to Earn a University Chair in a Scientific Field

    Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716 - 1774) - Anatomist

    Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 - 1799)- Mathematician and Philosopher

    Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728 - 1825) - Translator, Mathematician and Physicist

    Cristina Roccati (1732 - 1797) - Teacher of Physics

    Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (1743 - 1788) - Laboratory Scientist

    Maria Petraccini (1759 - 1791) - Anatomist and Physician

    Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (1760 - 1830) - Botanist

    Maria Medina Coeli (1764 - 1846) - Physician and Inventor

    Maria Dalle Donne (1778 - 1842) - Physician and Director at the University of Bologna

    Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785) - Mathematician

    Caterina Scarpellini (1808 - 1873) - Astronomer

    Jole Bovio Marconi (1897 - 1986) - Archaeologist

    Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) - Neurologist

    Giuliana Tesoro (1921 - 2002) - Italian-American Chemist

    Margherita Hack (1922 - 2013) - Physicist and Writer

    Milla Baldo-Ceolin (1924 - 2011) - Particle Physicist

    Mathilde Krim (1926 - 2018) - AIDs researcher

    Maria Carmela Lico (1927 - 1985) - Italian-Brazilian Physiologist and Behaviour Neuroscientist

    Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928 - 1984) - Italian-American Experimental Nuclear Physicist

    Daniela Rhodes (1946 -)- Molecular Biologist

    Chiara Nappi (1951 -) - Physicist

    Adriana Albini (1955 -) Pathologist

    Maria Abbracchio (1956 -) - Pharmacologist

    Maria Spillantini (1957 -) - Molecular Neurologist

    Fabiola Gianotti (1962 -) - Particle Physicist

  • Kono Yasui (1880 - 1971) - Biologist

    Michiyo Tsujimura (1888 - 1969) - Biochemist

    Katsuko Saruhashi (1920 - 2007) - Geochemist

    Tomoko Ohta (1933 -) - Geneticist

    Yuki Okoda (fl. 2000s) - Astronomer

  • Lubna Hamid Tawfiq Tahtamouni (1976 -) - Developmental Biologist

  • Florence Wambugu (1953 -) - Plant Pathologist and Virologist

    Margaret Ogola (1958 - 2011) - Paediatrician and Author

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  • Lidija Liepiņa (1891 - 1985) - Chemist

    Madga Staudinger (1902 - 1997) - Biologist

  • Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994) - Archaeologist

    Birutė Galdikas (1946 -) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist

  • Mazlan Othman (1951 -) - Astrophysicist

  • Caterina Vitale (1566 - 1619) - Pharmacist

  • Evangelina Villegas (1924 – 2017) - Biochemist

    Susana López Charretón (1959 -) - Virologist

  • Zulema L’Astrologa (c. 1190 - 1229) - Astronomer

  • Greta Stevenson (1911 - 1990) - Mycologist

    Vivienne Cassie Cooper (1926 – 2021) - Botanist

    Jan Anderson (1932 - 2015) - Biochemist

    Patricia Bergquist (1933 – 2009) - Zoologist

    Beatrice Tinsley (1941 - 1981) - Astronomer and Cosmologist

  • Grace Alele-Williams (1932 – 2022) - Mathematics lecturer

    Grace Oladunni Taylor (1937 -) - Biochemist

    Deborah Ajakaiye (1940 -) - Physicist

    Rabia Salihu Sa’id (1963 -) - Atmospheric Physicist

    Olanike Adeyemo (1970 -) - Veterinarian

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    Ellen Gleditsch (1879 - 1968) - Radiochemist

    Anne Stine Ingstad (1918 - 1997) - Archaeologist

    May-Britt Moser (1963 -) - Neuroscientist

  • Sania Nishtar (1963 -) - Physician

    Tasneem Zehra Husain (fl. 1990s) - Theoretical Physicist

    Afra Karim (1995 - 2012) - Computer Prodigy

  • Ruth Shady (1946 -) - Archaeologist

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish-French Physicist and Chemist

    Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician

    Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 – 2015) - Paleobiologist

    Halszka Osmolska (1930 - 2008) - Palaeontologist

    Teresa Maryańska (1937 – 2019) - Palaeontologist

  • Manuela Maria Veloso (1957 -) - Computer Scientist

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    Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) - Mathematician

    Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (1856 - 1916) - Chemist

    Vera Popova (1867 - 1896) - Chemist

    Olga Lepeshinskaya (1871 - 1963) - Biologist

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    Vera Danchakoff (1879 - 1950) - Cell Biologist

    Maria Klenova (1898 - 1976) - Marine Geologist

    Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899 - 1999) - Mathematician

    Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909 - 1997) - Physicist

    Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004) - Mathematician

    Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937 -) - Cosmonaut

    Renata Kallosh (1943 -) –Theoretical Physicist

    Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946 -) - Russian/UkrainianAstronomer

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    Hayat Sindi (1967 -) – Medical Researcher

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  • Gertrud Theiler (1897 - 1986) - Parasitologist

    Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 - 2004) - Palaeontologist

    Tikvah Alper (1909 - 1995) - Physicist and Radiobiologist

  • Jeong Eun-kyeong (1965 -) Public Health Expert

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    Margarita Salas (1938 - 2019) - Biochemist and Molecular Geneticist

  • Asha de Vos (1979 -) - Marine Biologist

  • Anna Ȧkerhielm (1647 - 1698) - Writer and Traveller

    Charlotta Frölich (1698 - 1770) - Agronomist

    Eva Ekeblad (1724 - 1786) - Agronomist

    Maria Christina Bruhn (1732 - 1802) - Inventor of Gunpowder Packaging

    Elsa Beata Bunge (1734 - 1819) - Botanist

    Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743 - 1782) - Botanist

    Maria Jansson (Kisamor) (1788 - 1842) - Natural Doctor

    Anna Sundström (1795 - 1871) - Chemist

    Lovisa Åhrberg (1801 - 1881) - Surgeon

    Amalia Assur (1803 - 1889) - Dentist

    Hanna Hammarström (1829 - 1909) - Inventor (Telephone wire) and Industrialist

    Emmy Rappe (1835 - 1896) - Nurse

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    Rosalie Fougelberg (1841 - 1911) - Dentist

    Louise Hammarström (1849 - 1917) - Chemist

    Karolina Widerström (1856 - 1949) - Physician

    Hedda Andersson (1861 - 1950) - Physician

    Anna Stecksen (1870 - 1904) - Physician and Pathologist

    Ninni Kronberg (1874 - 1946) - Physiologist and Nutritionist

    Astrid Cleve (1875 - 1968) - Botanist, Geologist and Chemist

    Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) - Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist

    Hanna Rydh (1891 - 1964) - Archaeologist

    Anne L’ Huillier (1958 -) French-Swedish Physicist

  • Maria Lullin (1751 - 1822) - Entomologist

    Gerta Keller (1945 -) - Paleontologist

    Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 -) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician

    Mariann Bienz (1953 -) - Molecular Biologist

  • Al-'Ijiyyah bint al-'Ijliyy (c.10th Century) - Astronomer

    Safaa Kumari (1962 -) - Plant Virologist

  • Fan Chung (1949 -) - Taiwanese-American Mathematician

    Audrey Tang (1981 -) - Computer Programmer

  • Julie Makani (1970 -) - Biomedical Researcher

  • Salinee Tavaranan (fl. 2000s) - Mechanical Engineer

  • Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Byzantine Physician

    Halet Çambel (1916 – 2014) - Archaeologist

  • Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (1970 -) - Veterinarian and Conservationist

  • Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Byzantine Medical Author

    Kateryna Yushchenko (1919 - 2001) - Computer Scientist

    Olga Oleinik (1925 – 2001) - Mathematician

    Lyudmila Zhuravleva1946 - Russian/UkrainianAstronomer

    Maryna Viazovska (1984 -) - Mathematician

    Anastasia Volkova (1991 -) - Agricultural Scientist

  • Evelyn Miralles (1966 -) - Computer Engineer

  • Jane Luu (1963 -) - Vietnamese-American Astronomer

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