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.
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Magda Ericson (1926 -) - French-Algerian Nuclear Phyisicist
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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
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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
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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
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Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866 - 1952) - Physicist
Mercedes Doretti (1959 -) - Forensic Anthropologist
Cecilia Bouzat (1961 -) - Neuroscientist
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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
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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
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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
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Tapputi-Belatekallim (c. 2000 BC) - Chemist
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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
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Sonia Alconini (1965 -) - Archaeologist
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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
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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
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Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897 - 1968) - Physicist
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MiMi Aung (1968 -) - Burmese-American Engineer
Aye Nyein Thu (1995 -) - Doctor
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Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Physician
Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Medical Author
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Boghuma Kabisen Titanji (fl. 2000s) - Cameroonian Virologist and Ethics Campaigner
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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
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María Teresa Ruis (1946 -) - Astronomer
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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
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Gloria Galeano Garcés (1958 – 2016) - Botanist
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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
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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
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Idelisa Bonnelly (1931 - 2022) - Marine Biologist
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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
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Eugenia Maria del Pino Veintimilla (1945 -) - Developmental Biologist
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Sameera Moussa (1917 - 1952) - Nuclear Physicist
Fawzia Fahim (1931 -) - Biochemist
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Tiiu Kull (1958 -) - Botanist
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Marie de Brimeu (c.1550-1605) - Botanist
Alexandra Smirnoff (1838 - 1913) - Pomologist
Liisi Oterma (1915 – 2001) - Astronomer
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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
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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
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Aspasia the Physician (c. 400 AD) - Midwife and Gynaecologist
Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971 -) – Theoretical Physicist
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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
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Elsa G. Vilmundardóttir (1932 - 2008) - Geologist
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Kono Yasui (1880 - 1971) - Biologist
Michiyo Tsujimura (1888 - 1969) - Biochemist
Katsuko Saruhashi (1920 - 2007) - Geochemist
Tomoko Ohta (1933 -) - Geneticist
Yuki Okoda (fl. 2000s) - Astronomer
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Lubna Hamid Tawfiq Tahtamouni (1976 -) - Developmental Biologist
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Florence Wambugu (1953 -) - Plant Pathologist and Virologist
Margaret Ogola (1958 - 2011) - Paediatrician and Author
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Jang-Geum (c. 1474 - 1550) - Physician
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Lidija Liepiņa (1891 - 1985) - Chemist
Madga Staudinger (1902 - 1997) - Biologist
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Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994) - Archaeologist
Birutė Galdikas (1946 -) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist
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Mazlan Othman (1951 -) - Astrophysicist
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Caterina Vitale (1566 - 1619) - Pharmacist
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Evangelina Villegas (1924 – 2017) - Biochemist
Susana López Charretón (1959 -) - Virologist
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Zulema L’Astrologa (c. 1190 - 1229) - Astronomer
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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
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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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Emily Arnesen (1876 - 1928) - Zoologist
Ellen Gleditsch (1879 - 1968) - Radiochemist
Anne Stine Ingstad (1918 - 1997) - Archaeologist
May-Britt Moser (1963 -) - Neuroscientist
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Sania Nishtar (1963 -) - Physician
Tasneem Zehra Husain (fl. 1990s) - Theoretical Physicist
Afra Karim (1995 - 2012) - Computer Prodigy
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Ruth Shady (1946 -) - Archaeologist
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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
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Manuela Maria Veloso (1957 -) - Computer Scientist
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Nitza Margarita Cintrón (1950 -) - Chief of Space Medicine at NASA Johnson Space Center
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Ana Aslan (1897 - 1988) - Physician and Biologist
Daniela L. Rus (fl. 1990s) - Roboticist, Pioneer in A.I.
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Anna Volkova (c. 1800 - 1876) - Chemist
Praskovya Uvarova (1840 - 1924) - Archaeologist
Varvara Kashevarova Rudneva (1844 - 1899) - Physician
Elizaveta Litvinova (1845 - 1919?) - Mathematician
Julia Lermontova (1946 - 1919) - Chemist
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) - Mathematician
Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (1856 - 1916) - Chemist
Vera Popova (1867 - 1896) - Chemist
Olga Lepeshinskaya (1871 - 1963) - Biologist
Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasyeva (1876 - 1964) - Russian-Dutch Mathematician
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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Rufaida Al-Aslamia (c. 620 AD) –Nurse
Hayat Sindi (1967 -) – Medical Researcher
Yasmin Ahmed Almubarak Altwaijri (fl. 2000s) - Epidemiologist
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Mileva Maric (1875 - 1948) - Physicist
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Gertrud Theiler (1897 - 1986) - Parasitologist
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 - 2004) - Palaeontologist
Tikvah Alper (1909 - 1995) - Physicist and Radiobiologist
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Jeong Eun-kyeong (1965 -) Public Health Expert
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María de los Ángeles Alvariño González (1916 – 2005) - Oceanographer
Margarita Salas (1938 - 2019) - Biochemist and Molecular Geneticist
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Asha de Vos (1979 -) - Marine Biologist
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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
Johanna Heden (1837 - 1912) - Midwife and Barber Surgeon
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
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Maria Lullin (1751 - 1822) - Entomologist
Gerta Keller (1945 -) - Paleontologist
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 -) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician
Mariann Bienz (1953 -) - Molecular Biologist
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Al-'Ijiyyah bint al-'Ijliyy (c.10th Century) - Astronomer
Safaa Kumari (1962 -) - Plant Virologist
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Fan Chung (1949 -) - Taiwanese-American Mathematician
Audrey Tang (1981 -) - Computer Programmer
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Julie Makani (1970 -) - Biomedical Researcher
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Salinee Tavaranan (fl. 2000s) - Mechanical Engineer
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Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Byzantine Physician
Halet Çambel (1916 – 2014) - Archaeologist
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Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (1970 -) - Veterinarian and Conservationist
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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
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Evelyn Miralles (1966 -) - Computer Engineer
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Jane Luu (1963 -) - Vietnamese-American Astronomer