The Original List
Here you will find the original list of every female scientist we aim to document.
Please note this page is (as it should be) updated regularly.
Is your favourite scientist missing from this list? Check they meet the criteria (there is only two: a person who does not identify as male and has made a contribution to science) then send me their details using the contact button at the top of the page.
As the blog progresses, hyperlinks to each entry will be activated.
Scientists are categorised here by their year of birth
The Ancient World
1. Peseshet (c. 2500 BC) - Ancient Egyptian Physician
2. Tapputi-Belatekallim (c. 2000 BC) - Babylonian Chemist
3. Agamede (c. 1200 BC) - Ancient Greek Physician
4. Theano (c. 600 BC) - Ancient Greek Pythagorean Philosopher
5. Agnodice (c. 400 BC) - Ancient Greek Physician, Midwife, and Gynaecologist
6. Pythias the Elder (c. 381 - 326 BC) - Ancient Greek Biologist
7. Aglaonice (c. 200 BC) - Cited as the 1st Female Astronomer in Ancient Greece
8. Chunyu Yan (c. 1st Century BC) - Chinese Gynaecologist
9. Fang (c. 1st Century BC) - Chinese Alchemist
10. Antiochis of Tios (c. 1st Century BC) - Roman Physician
11. Cleopatra the Physician (c. 100 AD) - Ancient Greek Medical Writer
12. Mary the Prophetess (c. 100 - 300 AD) - Ancient Egyptian Alchemist
13. Metrodora (c. 300 AD) - Ancient Greek Physician
14. Cleopatra the Alchemist (c. 3rd Century AD) - Ancient Egyptian Alchemist, and Author
15. Aemilia Hilaria (c. 300 - 363 AD) - Gallo-Roman Physician
16. Pandrosion (c. 300 - 360 AD) - Ancient Greek Mathematician
17. Hypatia (c. 355 - 415 AD) - Alexandrian Philosopher and Mathematician
18. Aspasia the Physician (c. 400 AD) - Greek Midwife and Gynaecologist
19. Bao Gu (fl. 4th Century AD) - Chinese Physician
The Middle Ages
20. Rufaida Al-Aslamia (c. 620 AD) - Saudi Nurse
21. Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (c.10th Century) - Syrian Astronomer and Astrolabe Maker
22. Keng Hsien-Seng (c. 975) - Chinese Alchemist
23. Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Byzantine Physician
24. Hildegard of Bingen (1099 - 1179) - German Philosopher and Polymath
25. Adelle of the Saracens (c. 12th Century) - Italian Physician and Teacher
26. Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Byzantine Medical Author
27. Sun Bu’er (c. 1119 - 1182) Chinese Chemist
28. Herrad of Landsberg (c. 1130 - 1195) - Alsatian Nun and Theologian
29. Zulema L’Astrologa (c. 1190 - 1229) - Moorish Astronomer
30. Trota di Ruggiero/Ladies of Salerno (c. 12-13th Century) - A Group of Female Physicians and Medical Writers
31. Magistra Hersend (c. 1249 - 1259) - French Surgeon and Royal Physician
32. Dame Péronelle (1292 - 1319) - French Herbalist
33. Abella of Salerno (c. 14th century) - Italian Physician and Teacher
34. Adelmota of Carrara (c. 14th Century) - Italian Physician and Obstetrician
35. Mercuriade (c. 14th Century) - Italian Surgeon and Medical Author
36. Rebecca de Guarna (c. 14th Century) - Italian Surgeon
37. Alessandra Giliani (c. 1307 - 1326) - Italian Pathologist
38. Jacobina Félice de Almania (fl. 1322 Century) - Italian Physician
39. Dorotea Bucca (1360 - 1436) - Italian Physician and Chair of Medicine (University of Bologna)
40. Peretta Peronne (fl. 1411) - French Surgeon
41. Constance Calenda (c. 1415) - Italian Eye Surgeon
42. Tan Yunxian (1461 - 1554) - Chinese Physician
43. Jang-Geum (c. 1474 - 1550) - Korean Physician
44. Guillemette du Luys (fl. 1479) - French Surgeon
45. Gentile Budrioli (d. 1498) - Italian Astrologer
46. Clarice di Durisio (c. 15th Century)- Italian Physician
16th Century
47. Agatha Streicher (1520 - 1581) - German Physician
48. Helena Magenbuch (1523 - 1597) - German Pharmacist
49. Marie de Brimeu (c.1550-1605) - Finnish Botanist
50. Catherine de Parthenay (1554 - 1631) - French Mathematician
51. Sophia Brahe (1556 - 1643) - Danish Horticulturalist
52. Isabella Cortese (c.1561) - Italian Alchemist
53. Louise Bourgeois Boursier (1563 - 1636) - French Midwife
54. Caterina Vitale (1566 - 1619) - Maltese Pharmacist
55. Loredana Marcello (c. 1572) - Italian Botanist
56. Elinor Sneshell (c. 1593) - English Barber Surgeon
17th Century
57. Martine Bertereau (c. 1600 - after 1642) - French Mineralogist
58. Maria Cunitz (1610 - 1664) - German-Polish Astronomer
59. Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 - 1680) - French Chemist and Alchemist
60. Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) - English Philosopher, Writer, and Publisher of Early Modern Science
61. Elizabeth Walker (1623 - 1690) - English Pharmacist
62. Justine Siegemund (1636 - 1705) - German Midwife
63. Marie Crous (fl. 1640) - French Mathematician; Introduced the Decimal System to France
64. Marguerite de la Sabliere (1640 - 1693) - French Hostess and Patron of Poets, Scientists and Writers
65. Anna Ȧkerhielm (1647 - 1698) - Swedish Writer and Traveller
66. Elisabeth Hevelius (1647 - 1693) - German-Polish Astronomer
67. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) - German Naturalist and Scientific Illustrator
68. Eleanor Glanville (1654 - 1709) - English Entomologist
69. Jeanne Dumée (1660 - 1706) - French Astronomer
70. Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670 - 1720) - German Astronomer
71. Jane Sharp (fl. 1671) - English Midwife
72. Sybilla Masters (1675 - 1720) - American Inventor of the Corn Mill
73. Maria Clara Eimmart (1676 - 1707) - German Astronomer
74. Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 -1777) - Italian Mathematician
75. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) - English Pioneer of Modern Medicine by the Use of Variolation
76. Christine Kirch (1696 - 1782) - German Astronomer
77. Charlotta Frölich (1698 - 1770) - Swedish Agronomist
18th Century
78. Martha Daniell Logan (1704 - 1779) - American Botanist
79. Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749) - French Mathematician and Physicist
80. Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778) - 1st Woman to Earn a University Chair in a Scientific Field
81. Dorothea Erxleben (1715 - 1762) - German 1st Female Medical Doctor in Germany
82. Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716 - 1774) - Italian Anatomist
83. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 - 1799)- Italian Mathematician and Philosopher
84. Marie Marguerite Bihéron (1719 - 1795) - French Anatomist and Illustrator
85. Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720 - 1805) - French Chemist
86. Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722 - 1793) - American Agriculturist
87. Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1792) - French Astronomer and Mathematician
88. Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723 - 1786) - Dutch Poet and Physical Scientist
89. Jane Colden (1724 - 1766) - American Botanist
90. Eva Ekeblad (1724 - 1786 ) - Swedish Agronomist
91. Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724 - 1767) - French Mathematician
92. Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728 - 1825) - Italian Translator, Mathematician and Physicist
93. Maria Christina Bruhn (1732 - 1802) - Swedish Inventor of Gunpowder Packaging
94. Cristina Roccati (1732 - 1797) - Italian Teacher of Physics
95. Elsa Beata Bunge (1734 - 1819) - Swedish Botanist
96. Jacoba van den Brande (1735 - 1794) - Dutch Founder of the 1st All-Female Science Academy in the World
97. Jeanne Baret (1740 - 1807) - French Explorer and Botanist
98. Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (1743 - 1788) - Italian Laboratory Scientist
99. Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743 - 1782) - Swedish Botanist
100. Louise du Pierry (1746 - 1791) - French Astronomer and Professor
101. Marie Le Masson Le Golft (1749 - 1826) - French Naturalist
102. Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848) - German Astronomer
103. Maria Lullin (1751 - 1822) - Swiss Entomologist
104. Mary Kies (1752 - 1837) - American Inventor - weaving
105. Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755 - 1814) - Possible Contributor to the Invention of Cotton Gin with Eli Whitney
106. Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1758 - 1836) - French Chemist
107. Maria Petraccini (1759 - 1791) - Italian Anatomist and Physician
108. Margaret Bryan (c.1759 - 1836) - English Author and Teacher
109. Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (1760 - 1830) - Italian Botanist
110. Maria Medina Coeli (1764 - 1846) - Italian Physician and Inventor
111. Amelia Griffiths (1768 - 1858) - English Phycologist
112. Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande (1768 - 1832) - French Astronomer and Mathematician
113. Wang Zhenyi (1768 - 1797) - Chinese Astronomer and Mathematician
114. Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769 - 1821) - French Midwife and Gynaecologist
115. Jane Marcet (1769 - 1858) - English Writer of Popular Science Books
116. Marie Boivin (1773 - 1841) - French Midwife and Inventor
117. Hannah Slater (1774 - 1812) - American Inventor - Cotton Sewing Thread
118. Etheldred Benett (1776 - 1845) - English Geologist
119. Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - French Mathematician and Physicist
120. Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 - 1839) - English Adventurer and Archaeologist
121. Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778 - 1865) - British-Irish Botanist
122. Maria Dalle Donne (1778 - 1842) - Italian Physician and Director at the University of Bologna
123. Anna Maria Walker (c. 1778 - 1852) - Scottish Botanist
124. Tabitha Babbitt (1779 - 1853) - American Inventor of the Circular Saw
125. Elizabeth Philpot (1780 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist
126. Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Scottish Astronomer and Science Writer
127. Marie-Anne Libert (1782 - 1865) - Belgian Botanist and Mycologist
128. Mary Anne Whitby (1784 - 1850) - English Silkworm Cultivator
129. Ellen Hutchins (1785 - 1815) - Irish Botanist
130. Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785) - Italian Mathematician
131. Josephine Kablick (1787 - 1863) - Czech Botanist and Palaeontologist
132. Maria Jansson (Kisamor) (1788 - 1842) - Swedish Natural Doctor
133. Charlotte Murchison (1788 - 1869) - Scottish Geologist
134. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793 - 1884) - American Botanist
135. Frances Acton (1794 - 1881) - English Botanist
136. Elizabeth Fulhame (c. 1794) - Scottish Chemist
137. Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794 - 1871) - French Marine Biologist
138. Anna Sundström (1795 - 1871) - Swedish Chemist
139. Mary Buckland (1797 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist
140. Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) - English Fossil Collector and Palaeontologist
141. Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) - English Botanist and Photographer
19th Century (1800-1849)
142. Anna Volkova (c. 1800 - 1876) - Russian Chemist
143. Lovisa Åhrberg (1801 - 1881) - Swedish Surgeon
144. Amalia Assur (1803 - 1889) - Swedish Dentist
145. Anna Maria Hussey (1805 - 1853) - English Mycologist
146. Elizabeth Twining (1805 - 1889) - English Botanical Illustrator
147. Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808 - 1872) - Irish Algologist, Botanist, and Illustrator
148. Caterina Scarpellini (1808 - 1873) - Italian Astronomer
149. Marie Josefina Mathilde Durocher (1809 - 1893)- Brazilian Obstetrician
150. Mary Ball (1812 - 1892) - Irish Entomologist
151. Mary Brush (fl. 1815) - American Inventor - Corset
152. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815 - 1852) - English Mathematician
153. Elizabeth Carne (1817 - 1873) - English Geologist and Mineralogist
154. Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) - American Astronomer
155. Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - English Statistician and Founder of Modern Nursing
156. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - British-American Physician
157. Amalie Dietrich (1821 - 1891) - German Naturalist
158. Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822 - 1907) - American Naturalist
159. Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist
160. Emily Blackwell (1826-1910) - American Physician
161. Martha Jane Coston (1826 - 1904) - American Inventor of the Coston Flare
162. Marie Pasteur (1826 - 1910) - French Laboratory Scientist
163. Mary Walton- (c. 1827-?) - American Inventor of Pollution Reduction Devices
164. Johanna Mestorf (1828 - 1909) - German Archaeologist
165. Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828 - 1901) - English Entomologist
166. Hanna Hammarström (1829 - 1909) - Swedish Inventor (Telephone wire) and Industrialist
167. Maria Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829 - 1902) - German Physician
168. Elizabeth Brown (1830 - 1899) - British Astronomer
169. Clémence Royer (1830 - 1902) - French Translator of On the Origin of Species
170. Mary Treat (1830 - 1923) - American Naturalist
171. Isabella Bird (1831 - 1904) - English Explorer and Naturalist
172. Mary Everest Boole (1832 - 1916) - English Mathematician
173. Harriet Mann Miller (Olive Thorne Miller) (1831 - 1918) - American Naturalist and Ornithologist
174. Zsófia Torma (1832 - 1899) - Hungarian Archaeologist, Anthropologist and Paleontologist
175. Mary Walker (1832 - 1919) - American Surgeon
176. Lucy Hobbs Taylor (1833 - 1910) - American Dentist
177. Louisa Atkinson (1834 - 1872) - Australian Botanist
178. Susan Hallowell (1835 - 1911) - America Botanist
179. Emmy Rappe (1835 - 1896) - Swedish Nurse
180. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) - English Physician
181. Maria E. Beasley (1836 - 1913) - American Inventor
182. Johanna Heden (1837 - 1912) - Swedish Midwife and Barber Surgeon
183. Mary Albertson (1838 - 1914) - American Botanist and Astronomer
184. Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 - 1923) - American Ethnologist
185. Margaret E. Knight (1838 - 1914) - American Inventor
186. Alexandra Smirnoff (1838 - 1913) - Finnish Pomologist
187. Josephine Garis Cochrane (1839 - 1913) - American Inventor of Hand-Powered Dishwasher
188. Rachel Lloyd (1839 - 1900) - American Chemist
189. Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 - 1912) - English Physician and Teacher
190. Praskovya Uvarova (1840 - 1924) - Russia Archaeologist
191. Rosalie Fougelberg (1841 - 1911) - Swedish Dentist
192. Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907) - Irish Astronomer
193. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842 - 1906) - American Physician
194. Ellen Swallow Richards (1842 - 1911) - American Industrial and Environmental Chemist
195. Isala Van Diest (1842 - 1916) - Belgian Physician
196. Emily Warren Roebling (1844 - 1903) - American Civil Engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge
197. Varvara Kashevarova Rudneva (1844 - 1899) - Russian Physician
198. Elizaveta Litvinova (1845 - 1919?) - Russian Mathematician
199. Marian Farquharson (1846 - 1912) - English Naturalist
200. Julia Lermontova (1846 - 1919) - Russian Chemist
201. Sarah Frances Whiting (1846 - 1927) - American Physicist and Astronomer
202. Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847 - 1930) - American Psychologist, Logician and Mathematician
203. Mary Watson Whitney (1847 - 1921) - American Astronomer and Head of the Vassar Observatory
204. Ellen F. Eglin (c. 1848 - 1890) - American Inventor of Clothes Wringer
205. Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins (1848 - 1915) - Irish Astronomer and Pioneer in Spectroscopy
206. Mary Murtfeldt (1848 - 1913) - American Entomologist
207. Cornelia Clapp (1849 - 1934) - American Marine Biologist
208. Louise Hammarström (1849 - 1917) - Swedish Chemist
19th Century (1850-1874)
209. Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) - Russian Mathematician
210. Ellen Hayes (1851 - 1930) - American Mathematician and Astronomer
211. Letitia Geer (1852 - 1935) - American Nurse and Inventor of the Modern Syringe
212. Isis Pogson (1852 - 1945) - English Astronomer and Meteorologist
213. Clara Southmayd Ludlow (1852 - 1924) - American Medical Entomologist
214. Laura Alberta Linton (1853 - 1915) - American Chemist
215. Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 - 1923) - English Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist, and Inventor
216. Anna Botsford Comstock (1854 - 1930) - American Conservationist
217. Elizabeth Gifford Peckham (1854 - 1940) - American Arachnologist, and Entomologist
218. Annie Lorrain Smith (1854 - 1937) - English Lichenologist
219. Clara Eaton Cummings (1855 - 1906) - American Botanist
220. Karolina Widerström (1856 - 1949) - Swedish Physician
221. Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (1856 - 1916) - Russian Chemist
222. Williamina Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Scottish Astronomer
223. Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857 - 1945) - American Physiologist and Inventor of Micro-Electrode
224. Zelia Nuttall (1857 - 1933) - American Archaeologist
225. Anna Winlock (1857 - 1904) - American Astronomer and ‘Human Computer’
226. Mary Adela Blagg (1858 - 1944) - English Astronomer
227. Elizabeth Bragg (1858 - 1929) - Structural Engineer
228. Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858 - 1934) - American Botanist
229. Grace Frankland (1858 - 1946) - English Microbiologist
230. Charlotte Scott (1858 - 1931) - English Mathematician
231. Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858 - 1947) - American Ichthyologist
232. Fanny Bullock Workman (1859 - 1925) - American Geographer, Cartographer, and Explorer
233. Margaret Crosfield (1859 - 1952) - English Palaeontologist
234. Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt (1859 - 1928) - American Pathologist
235. Alice Eastwood (1859 - 1953)- Canadian Botanist
236. Marcia Keith (1859 - 1950) - American Physics Teacher
237. Josephine Silone Yates (1859 - 1912) - American Chemist
238. Florence Cushman (1860 - 1940) - American Astronomer
239. Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860 - 1944) - American Physicist
240. Mary J. Rathbun (1860 - 1943) - American Zoologist
241. Hedda Andersson (1861 - 1950) - Swedish Physician
242. Dorothea Klumpke-Robert (1861 - 1942) - American Astronomer
243. Kirstine Meyer (1861 - 1941) - Danish Physicist
244. Nettie Stevens (1861 - 1912) - American Geneticist
245. Zonia Baber (1862 - 1955) - American Geologist
246. Florence Bascom (1862-1945) - American Geologist
247. Carrie Derick (1862 - 1941) - Canadian Geneticist and Botanist
248. Margaret Fountaine (1862 - 1940) - English Lepidopterist
249. Agnes Pockels (1862 - 1935) - German Chemist
250. Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - American Astronomer
251. Ida Freund (1863 - 1914) - Austrian University Chemistry Lecturer
252. Margaret Alice Murray (1863 - 1963) - English Egyptologist, Archaeologist, and Anthropologist
253. Ethel Sargant (1863 - 1918) - English Botanist
254. Ellen Churchill Semple (1863 - 1932) - American Geographer
255. Anna Wessels Williams (1863 - 1954) - American Microbiologist
256. Maria Gordon (1864 - 1939) - Scottish Geologist
257. Kate Gleason (1865 - 1933) - American Engineer
258. E. Lilian Todd (1865 - 1937) - American Airplane Designer
259. Mary Anderson (1866 - 1953) - American Inventor of the Windshield Wiper Blade
260. Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866 - 1952) - Argentine Physicist
261. Antonia Coetana Maury (1866 - 1952) - American Astronomer
262. Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) - English Natural Scientist
263. Vera Popova (1867 - 1896) - Russian Chemist
264. Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish-French Physicist and Chemist
265. Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926) - English Explorer and Archaeologist
266. Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868 - 1947) - Irish Astronomer and Mathematician
267. Philippa Fawcett (1868 - 1948) - English Mathematician
268. Emilie Snethlage (1868 - 1929) - German Naturalist and Ornithologist
269. Isabelle Stone (1868 - 1944) - American Physicist
270. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921) - American Astronomer
271. Grace Chisholm Young (1868 - 1944) - English Mathematician
272. Mary Agnes Meara Chase (1869 - 1963) - American Botanist
273. Maud Cunnington (1869 - 1951) - Welsh Archaeologist
274. Helen Dean King (1869 - 1955) - American Biologist
275. Emilie Martin (1869 - 1936) - American Mathematician
276. Edith Anne Stoney (1869 - 1938) - Irish Physicist
277. Clara Immerwahr (1870 - 1915) -German Chemist
278. Anna Stecksen (1870 - 1904) - Swedish Physician and Pathologist
279. Elmina T. Wilson (1870 - 1918)- American Structural Engineer; Sister of Alda H. Wilson
280. Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871 - 1945) - American Archaeologist
281. Olga Lepeshinskaya (1871 - 1963) - Russian Biologist
282. Jantina Tammes (1871 - 1947) - Dutch Botanist and Geneticist
283. Florence R. Sabin (1871 - 1953) - American Medical Scientist
284. Ethel Shakespear (1871 - 1946) - English Geologist
285. Elizabeth F. Fisher (1872 - 1941) - American Geologist
286. Fanny Gates (1872 - 1931) - American Physicist
287. Louisa Martindale (1872 - 1966) - English Physician and Surgeon
288. Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) - American Bacteriological Chemist
289. Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (1872 - 1952) - American Mycologist
290. Sara Josephine Baker (1873 - 1945) - American Physician and Public Health Pioneer
291. Florence Parpart (1873 - 1930) - American Inventor of the Refrigerator
292. Alda H. Wilson (1873 - 1960) - American Structural Engineer; Sister of Elmina T. Wilson
293. Nora Lilian Alcock (1874 - 1972) - English Plant Pathologist
294. Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874 - 1934) - English Surgeon
295. Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis (1874 - 1956) - American Botanist
296. Ninni Kronberg (1874 - 1946) - Swedish Physiologist and Nutritionist
297. Elizabeth Laird (1874 - 1969) - Canadian Physicist
19th Century (1875-1899)
298. Astrid Cleve (1875 - 1968) - Swedish Botanist, Geologist and Chemist
299. Edith Humphrey (1875 - 1978) - English Inorganic Chemist
300. Mileva Maric (1875 - 1948) - Serbian Physicist
301. Emily Arnesen (1876 - 1928) - Norwegian Zoologist
302. Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) - Canadian Nuclear Physicist
303. Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasyeva (1876 - 1964) - Russian-Dutch Mathematician
304. Gabrielle Howard (1876 - 1930) - English Plant Physiologist
305. Edith Marion Patch (1876 - 1954) - American Entomologist
306. Alice Grace Cook (1877 - 1958) - English Astronomer
307. Florence Annie Yeldham (1877 - 1945) - English Mathematics Historian
308. Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951) - Welsh Palaeontologist
309. Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967) - Australian Medical Doctor and Educator
310. Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) - Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist
311. Theodora Lisle Prankerd (1878 - 1939) - English Botanist
312. Agnes Arber (1879 - 1960) - English Botanist
313. Vera Danchakoff (1879 - 1950) - Russian Cell Biologist
314. Ellen Gleditsch (1879 - 1968) - Norwegian Radiochemist
315. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879 - 1967) - English Botanist
316. Maud Menten (1879 - 1960) - Canadian Physician
317. Sophia Eckerson (1880 - 1954 ) - American Botanist and Microchemist
318. Margarete Kahn (1880 - 1942) - German Mathematician
319. Gabriele Rabel (1880 - 1963) - Austrian Physicist and Botanist
320. Marie Stopes (1880 - 1958) - British Palaeobotanist
321. Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880 - 1932) - English Biochemist
322. Kono Yasui (1880 - 1971) - Japanese Biologist
323. Evelyn Cheesman (1881 - 1969) - British Entomologist
324. Alice Catherine Evans (1881 - 1975) - American Microbiologist
325. Alice Wilson (1881 - 1964) - Canadian Geologist and Palaeontologist
326. Eleanor Carothers (1882 - 1957) - American Zoologist and Geneticist
327. Raymonde de Laroche (1882 - 1919) - French Engineer and Pilot
328. Ann Haven Morgan (1882 - 1966) - American Zoologist and Ecologist
329. Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) - German Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
330. Alice Middleton Boring (1883 - 1955) - American Zoologist
331. Muriel Robertson (1883 - 1973) - Scottish Protozoologist and bacteriologist
332. Ethel Browne Harvey (1885 - 1965) - American Embryologist
333. Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (1885 - 1973) - Dutch Physicist
334. Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885 - 1975) - American Chemist and Inventor
335. Alice Perry (1885 - 1969) - Irish Civil Engineer
336. Marjory Stephenson (1885 - 1948) - English Biochemist and Microbiologist
337. Eileen Hendriks (1887 - 1978) - English Geologist
338. Hedwig Kohn (1887 - 1964) - German Physicist
339. Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888 - 1985) - English Archaeologist
340. Winifred Goldring (1888 - 1971) - American Palaeontologist
341. Inge Lehmann (1888 - 1993) - Danish Seismologist
342. Sara Branham Matthews (1888 - 1962) - American Microbiologist and Physician
343. Michiyo Tsujimura (1888 - 1969) - Japanese Biochemist
344. Lucy Wills (1888 - 1964) - English Haematologist
345. Lucy Wilson (1888 - 1980) - American Physicist
346. Annie Meinertzhagen (1889 - 1928) - Scottish Ornithologist
347. Mary Caldwell (1890 - 1972) - American Chemist
348. Julie Vinter Hansen (1890 - 1960) - Danish Astronomer
349. Euphemia Haynes (1890 - 1980) - American Mathematician
350. Pearl Kendrick (1890 - 1980) - American Bacteriologist
351. Elizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981) - Hungarian-American Chemist
352. Lidija Liepiņa (1891 - 1985) - Latvian Chemist
353. Edith Quimby (1891 - 1982) - American Medical Researcher and Nuclear Physicist
354. Hanna Rydh (1891 - 1964) - Swedish Archaeologist
355. A. Elizabeth Adams (1892 - 1962) - American Zoologist
356. Alice Ball (1892 - 1916) - American Pharmaceutical Chemist
357. Maude Bennot (1892 - 1982) - American Director of the Adler Planetarium
358. Dorothy Garrod (1892 - 1968) - English Archaeologist
359. Ruth C. McGuire (1893 - 1950) - American Botanist
360. Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1893 - 1973) - German-American Pathologist
361. Marietta Blau (1894 - 1970) - Austrian Physicist
362. Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894 - 1976) - English Mathematician and Biochemist
363. Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician
364. Helen S. Mitchell (1895 - 1984) - American Nutritionist
365. Alice H. Parker (1895 - 1920) - American Inventor of the Gas Furnace
366. Hertha Sponer (1895 - 1968) - German Physicist
367. Marguerite Williams (1895 - 1991) - American Geologist
368. Gerty Cori (1896 - 1957) - American Biochemist
369. Sheina Marshall (1896 - 1977) - Scottish Marine Zoologist
370. Dorothy M. Needham (1896 - 1987) - English Biochemist
371. Ida Noddack (1896 - 1978) - German Chemist and Physicist
372. Hazel K. Stiebeling (1896 - 1989) - American Nutritionist
373. Ana Aslan (1897 - 1988) - Romanian Physician and Biologist
374. Isabel Bassett Wasson (1897 - 1994) - American Petroleum Geologist
375. Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897 - 1931) - English Zoologist and herpetologist
376. Lili Bleeker (1897 - 1985) - Dutch Physicist
377. Jole Bovio Marconi (1897 - 1986) - Italian Archaeologist
378. Tilly Edinger (1897 - 1967) - German Palaeontologist
379. E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897 - 1984) - Indian Botanist
380. Irene Joliot-Curie (1897 - 1956) - French Physicist and Chemist
381. Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897 - 1968) - Bulgarian Physicist
382. Lucile Quarry Mann (1897 - 1986) - American Zoologist
383. Gertrud Theiler (1897 - 1986) - South African Parasitologist
384. Katharine Blodgett (1898 - 1979) - American Physicist
385. Doris Mable Cochran (1898 - 1968) - American Herpetologist
386. Rachel Fuller Brown (1898 - 1980)- American Chemist and Inventor
387. Katherine Esau (1898 - 1997) - German Botanist
388. Maria Klenova (1898 - 1976) - Russian Marine Geologist
389. Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) - German Embryologist
390. Bea Schwarz (1898 - 1969) - Dutch Phytopathologist
391. Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898 - 1990) - American Astronomer
392. Charlotte Auerbach (1899 - 1994) - German Zoologist and Geneticist
393. Anna Baetjer (1899 - 1984) - American Physiologist and toxicologist
394. Ann Bishop (1899 - 1990) - English Biologist and Parasitologist
395. Margaret Kennard (1899 - 1975) - American Neurologist
396. Jean Macnamara (1899 - 1968) -Australian Medical Doctor
397. Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899 - 2001)- Scottish Chemist
398. Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899 - 1999) - Russian Mathematician
399. Helen Porter (1899 - 1987) - English Botanist
400. Jane Stafford (1899 - 1991) - American Medical Writer and Early Science Communicator
401. Mildred Trotter (1899 - 1991) - American Forensic Anthropologist
402. Janet Vaughan (1899 - 1993) - British Physiologist
20th Century (1900 - 1910)
403. Christine Buisman (1900 - 1936) - Dutch Phytopathologist
404. Mary L. Cartwright (1900 - 1998) - English Mathematician
405. Gertrude Mary Cox (1900 - 1978) - American Statistician
406. Honor Fell (1900 - 1986) - English Developer of Tissue Culture
407. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchikin (1900 - 1979) - British Astronomer and Astrophysicist
408. Maria Telkes (1900 - 1995) - Hungarian Inventor in Solar Energy
409. Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901 - 1963) - American Physician
410. Isabella Gordon (1901 - 1988) - Scottish Marine Biologist
411. Grete Hermann (1901 - 1984) - German Mathematician and Philosopher
412. Suzanne LeClercq (1901 - 1994) - Belgian Palaeobotanist
413. Marion Cameron Gray (1902 - 1979) - Scottish Mathematician
414. Sidnie Manton (1902 - 1979) - British Entomologist and Zoologist
415. Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992) - American Cytogeneticist
416. Grace E. Pickford (1902 - 1986) - American Biologist and Endocrinologist
417. Mary Pickford (1902 - 2002) - British Neuroendocrinologist
418. Mina Spiegel Rees (1902 - 1997) - American Mathematician
419. Madga Staudinger (1902 - 1997) - Latvian Biologist
420. Katharine Way (1902 - 1995) - American Physicist
421. Edith Bülbring (1903 - 1990) - British Pharmacologist
422. Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903 - 1974) - German Mathematician and Engineer
423. Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 - 1971) - British Crystallographer
424. Ruth Ella Moore (1903 - 1994) - American Microbiologist
425. Maria Reiche (1903 - 1998) - German-Peruvian Archaeologist
426. Bertha Swirles (1903 - 1999) - British Physicist
427. Marthe Vogt (1903 - 2003) - German Neuroscientist
428. Hertha Wambacher (1903 - 1950) - Austrian Physicist
429. Ruby Hirose (1904 - 1960) - American Chemist
430. Berta Karlik (1904 - 1990) - Austrian Physicist
431. Irene Manton (1904 - 1988) - British Botanist
432. Elsie MacGill (1905 - 1980) - Canadian Aeronautical Engineer
433. Rozsa Peter (1905 - 1977) - Hungarian Mathematician
434. Mary Sears (1905 - 1997) - American Oceanographer
435. Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906 - 1996) - American Mathematician
436. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906 - 1972) - German Theoretical Physicist
437. Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992) - American Computer Scientist
438. Kathleen Kenyon (1906 - 1978) - British Archaeologist
439. F. Gwendolen Rees (1906 - 1994) - Welsh Zoologist and Parasitologist
440. Alice Stewart (1906 - 2002) - British Physician and Epidemiologist
441. Joan du Plat Taylor (1906 - 1983) - British Archaeologist
442. Elsie Widdowson (1906 - 2000) - British Dietitian
443. Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964) - American Marine Biologist and Conservationist
444. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 - 2004) - South African Palaeontologist
445. Irene K. Fischer (1907 - 2009) - Austrian Mathematician
446. Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907 - 2007) - German-American Geneticist
447. Dorothy Hill (1907 - 1997) - Australian Geologist
448. Helen Megaw (1907 - 2002) - Irish Crystallographer
449. Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) - American Botanist and Limnologist
450. Melba Phillips (1907 - 2004) - American Physicist
451. Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907 - 1990) - British Biochemist
452. Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (1907 - 1997) - American Pharmacist
453. Myrtle Bachelder (1908 - 1997) - American Chemist; Researcher on the Manhattan Project
454. Yvette Cauchois (1908 - 1999) - French Physicist
455. Mary Parke (1908 - 1989) - British Marine Botanist
456. Mary Golda Ross (1908 - 2008) - American Aerospace Engineer
457. Miriam Rothschild (1908 - 2005) - British Natural Scientist and Entomologist
458. Tikvah Alper (1909 - 1995) - South African Physicist and Radiobiologist
459. Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974) - American Obstetrical Anaesthesiologist
460. Isobel Bennett (1909 - 2008) - Australian Marine Biologist
461. Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) - Italian Neurologist
462. Marguerite Perey (1909 - 1975) - French Physicist
463. Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909 - 1997) - Russian Physicist
464. Joy Adamson (1910 - 1980) - Czech Naturalist and Author
465. Jacquetta Hawkes (1910 - 1996) - British Archaeologist
466. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994) -British Biochemist
467. Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910 - 1993) - American Microbiologist
468. Dorothy Vaughan (1910 - 2008) - American Mathematician
20th Century (1911 - 1920)
469. Klára Dán von Neumann (1911 - 1963) - Hungarian-American Computer Programmer
470. Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911 - 1998) - German Nuclear Physicist
471. Kamala Sohonie (1911 - 1998) - Indian Biochemist
472. Greta Stevenson (1911 - 1990) - New Zealander Mycologist
473. Anna J. Harrison (1912 - 1998) - American Organic Chemist
474. Ruby Payne-Scott (1912 - 1981) - Australian Radiophysicist
475. Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997) - Chinese Experimental Physicist
476. Mildred Cohn (1913 - 2009) - American Biochemist
477. Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (1913 - 1985) - American Computer Scientist
478. Mary Leakey (1913 - 1996) - British Palaeontologist
479. Elizabeth S. Russell (1913 - 2001) - American Geneticist
480. Florence van Straten (1913 - 1992) - American Aerological Engineer
481. Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914 - 1988) - American Mathematician
482. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austrian-American Inventor of Frequency Hopping
483. Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914 - 2015) - Canadian-American Pharmacologist
484. Ruth Turner (1914 - 2000) - American Marine Biologist
485. Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915 - 1981) - German Physicist
486. Liisi Oterma (1915 - 2001) - Finnish Astronomer
487. Winifred Pennington (1915 - 2007) - British Limnologist and Biologist
488. María de los Ángeles Alvariño González (1916 - 2005) - Spanish Oceanographer
489. Ruth Benerito (1926 - 2013) - American Inventor and Chemist
490. Halet Çambel (1916 - 2014) - Turkish Archaeologist
491. Joan Curran (1916 - 1999) - Welsh Physicist
492. Joyce Lambert (1916 - 2005) - English Botanist and Stratigrapher
493. Asima Chatterjee (1917 - 2006) - Indian Organic Chemist
494. Betty Holberton (1917 - 2001) - American Computer Programmer
495. Sameera Moussa (1917 - 1952) - Egyptian Nuclear Physicist
496. Carolyn Parker (1917 - 1966) - American Physicist
497. Kamal Ranadive (1917 - 2001) - Indian Biomedical Scientist
498. Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (1917 - 2003) - Siberian Born British Endocrinologist and Biochemist
499. Irene Ayako Uchida (1917 - 2013) - Canadian Down Syndrome Researcher
500. Gertrude B. Elion (1918 - 1999) - American Biochemist and Pharmacologist
501. Katherine Johnson (1918 - 2020) - American Physicist and Mathematician
502. Bruria Kaufman (1918 - 2010) - Israeli Theoretical Physicist
503. Anna Mani (1918 - 2001) - Indian Meteorologist and Physicist
504. Brenda Milner (1918 - ) - Canadian Neuropsychologist
505. Ruth Sanger (1918 - 2001) - Australian Haematologist and Serologist
506. Sheila Sherlock (1918 - 2001) - British Physician and Teacher
507. Anne Stine Ingstad (1918 - 1997) - Norwegian Archaeologist
508. Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919 - 2004) - American Surgeon
509. Margaret Burbidge (1919 - 2020) - British Astrophysicist
510. Patricia H. Clarke (1919 - 2010) - British Biochemist
511. Henriette Davidson Avram (1919 - 2006) - American Computer Programmer
512. Jean Hanson (1919 - 1973) - British Biophysicist and Zoologist
513. Mildred Rebstock (1919 - 2011) - American Chemist
514. Leona Woods Marshall (1919 - 1986) - American Physicist
515. Jane C. Wright (1919 - 2013) - American Cancer Researcher
516. Kateryna Yushchenko (1919 - 2001) - Ukrainian Computer Scientist
517. Leslie Barnett (1920 - 2002) - British Biologist
518. Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) - British Biophysicist and X-Ray Crystallographer
519. Adele Goldstine (1920 - 1964) - American Computer Programmer
520. Frances Meehan Latterell (1920 - 2008) - American Plant Pathologist
521. Helen Muir (1920 - 2005) - British Rheumatologist
522. Louise Reiss (1920 - 2011) - American Physician
523. Katsuko Saruhashi (1920 - 2007) - Japanese Geochemist
524. Marjorie Sweeting (1920 - 1994) - British Geomorphologist
525. Marie Tharp (1920 - 2006) - American Geologist and Cartographer
20th Century (1921 - 1930)
526. Ursula Franklin (1921 - 2016) - Canadian Metallurgist and Physicist
527. Phyllis S. Freier (1921 - 1992) - American Astrophysicist
528. Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994) - Lithuanian Archaeologist
529. Joan Hinton (1921 - 2010) - American Nuclear Physicist
530. Mary Jackson (1921 - 2005) - American Engineer
531. Marian Koshland (1921 - 1997) - American Immunologist
532. Marie Maynard Daly (1921 - 2003) - American Biochemist
533. Beatrice Mintz (1921- 2022) - American Embryologist
534. Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Antonelli (1921 - 2006) - Irish Computer Programmer
535. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921 - 2011) - American Medical Physicist
536. Ālenush Teriān (1921 - 2011) - Iranian Astronomer
537. Giuliana Tesoro (1921 - 2002) - Italian-American Chemist
538. Xie Xide (1921 - 2000) - Chinese Physicist
539. Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922 - 1999) - American Inventor of Home Security Devices
540. Eugenie Clark (1922 - 2015)- American Ichthyologist
541. Esther M. Conwell (1922 - 2014) - American Physicist
542. Naomi Datta (1922 - 2008) - British Geneticist and Bacteriologist
543. Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922 - 2017) - French Mathematician
544. Margherita Hack (1922 - 2013) - Italian Physicist and Writer
545. Evans Hayward (1922 - 2020) - American Physicist
546. Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922 - 2010) - German Metallurgist
547. Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004) - Russian Mathematician
548. Ester Lederberg (1922 - 2006) - American Microbiologist and Pioneer in Bacterial Genetics
549. Frances Spence (1922 - 2012) -American Computer Programmer
550. Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer (1922 - 2008) - American Computer Programmer
551. Brigitte Askonas (1923 - 2013) - British Immunologist
552. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923 - ) - French Mathematician and Physicist
553. Sulamith Goldhaber (1923 - 1965) - American Physicist
554. Stephanie Kwolek (1923 - 2014) - American Chemist and Inventor
555. Joanne Simpson (1923 - 2010) - American Meteorologist
556. Janet Watson (1923 - 1985) - British Geologist
557. Yvonne Brill (1924 - 2013) - Canadian Rocket Scientist
558. Milla Baldo-Ceolin (1924 - 2011) - Italian Particle Physicist
559. Jean Bartik (1924 - 2011) - American Computer Programmer
560. Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924 - 2023) - American Mathematician
561. Olga Kennard (1924 - 2023) - British Crystallographer
562. Mary Lee Woods (1924 - 2017) - British Mathematician and Computer Programmer
563. Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924 - 2017) - American Cancer Researcher
564. Ruth Teitelbaum (1924 - 1986) - American Computer Programmer
565. Bette Nesmith Graham (1924 - 1980) - American Inventor of Correction Fluid
566. Evangelina Villegas (1924 - 2017) - Mexican Biochemist
567. Winifred Watkins (1924 - 2003) - British Biochemist
568. Evelyn Berezin (1925 - 2018) - American Computer Engineer
569. Janet Davidson Rowley (1925 - 2013) - American Geneticist
570. Marthe Gautier (1925 - 2022) - French Physician
571. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015) - Polish Paleobiologist
572. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925 - 1983) - American Chemist and Bioinformatician
573. Mary Lyon (1925 - 2014) - British Geneticist
574. Olga Oleinik (1925 - 2001) - Ukrainian Mathematician
575. Nancy Roman (1925 - 2018) - American Astronomer
576. Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926 - 2012) - German Nuclear Physicist
577. Janine Connes (1926 - ) - French Astronomer
578. Vivienne Cassie Cooper (1926 - 2021) - New Zealand Botanist
579. Marian Diamond (1926 - 2017) - American Neuroscientist
580. Claire Fagin (1926 - 2024) - American Nurse and Nursing Educator
581. Darleane C. Hoffman (1926 -) - American Chemist
582. Mathilde Krim (1926 - 2018) - Italian AIDs researcher
583. Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1927 - 2020) - American Plasma Physicist
584. Jannette Anderson (1927 - 2002) - Scottish Biologist and Educator
585. Martha Chase (1927 - 2003) - American Geneticist
586. Ursula M. Cowgill (1927 - 2015) - American Anthropologist and Biologist
587. Betty Hay (1927 - 2007) - American Developmental Biologist
588. Frances Hugle (1927 - 1968) - American Engineer and Inventor of Tape Automated Bonding
589. Maria Carmela Lico (1927 - 1985) - Italian-Brazilian Physiologist and Behaviour Neuroscientist
590. Anne McLaren (1927 - 2007) - British Developmental Biologist and Geneticist
591. Gertrude Neumark (1927 - 2010) - German-American Physicist
592. Margaret G. Kivelson (1928 - ) - American Planetary Scientist and Space Physicist
593. Vera Rubin (1928 - 2016) - American Astronomer
594. Margeret Rule (1928 - 2015) - British Archaeologist
595. Jean E. Sammet (1928 - 2017) - American Computer Scientist
596. Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928 - 1984) - Italian-American Experimental Nuclear Physicist
597. Dorothea Bennett (1929 - 1990) - American Geneticist and Developmental Biologist
598. Magda Ericson (1929 -) - French-Algerian Nuclear Physicist
599. Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929 - 2024) - Canadian-American Mathematician
600. Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929 - 2016) - American Chemist
601. Melba Roy Mouton ( 1929 - 1990) - American Mathematician
602. Anneke Levelt Sengers (1929 - 2024) - Dutch Physicist
603. Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929 - 2021) - American Astronomer
604. Carolyne Van Vliet (1929 - 2016) - Dutch Born American Physicist
605. June Almeida (1930 - 2007) - Scottish Virologist, Histologist and Imager
606. Christiane Bonnelle (1930 - 2016) - French Physicist
607. Nina Byers (1930 - 2014) - American Theoretical Physicist
608. Hester A. Davis (1930 - 2014) - American Archaeologist
609. Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930 -) - French Developmental Biologist
610. Mildred Dresselhaus (1930 - 2017) - American Physicist
611. Daphne Osborne (1930 - 2006) - British Botanist and Plant Physiologist
612. Halszka Osmolska (1930 - 2008) - Polish Palaeontologist
613. Margaret M. Perry (1930 - 2009) - English Molecular Geneticist
614. Patsy Sherman (1930 - 2008) - American Chemist
615. Gladys West (1930 -) American Mathematician
616. Tu Youyou (1930 -) - Chinese Pharmaceutical Chemist
20th Century (1931-1940)
617. Idelisa Bonnelly (1931 - 2022) - Dominican Marine Biologist
618. Fawzia Fahim (1931 -) - Egyptian Biochemist
619. Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931 -) - American Information Scientist
620. Maxine Singer (1931 - 2024) - American Molecular Biologist
621. Elizabeth Warrington (1931 -) - British Neuropsychologist
622. Monique Adolphe (1932 - 2022) - French Cell Biologist
623. Grace Alele-Williams (1932 - 2022) - Nigerian Mathematician
624. Frances Allen (1932 - 2020) - American Computer Scientist
625. Jan Anderson (1932 - 2015) - New Zealand Biochemist
626. Yvonne Barr (1932 - 2016) - Irish Virologist and Co-Discoverer of EBV
627. Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985) - American Zoologist and Primatologist
628. Caroline Herzenberg (1932 -) - American Physicist and Science Historian
629. Marcia Neugebauer (1932 -) - American Geologist and Space Physicist
630. Elsa G. Vilmundardóttir (1932 - 2008) - Icelandic Geologist
631. Ruth Arnon (1933 -) - Israeli Biochemist
632. Noemie Benczer Koller (1933 -) - Austrian-Born Nuclear Physicist
633. Patricia Bergquist (1933 - 2009) - New Zealand Zoologist
634. Annie Easley (1933 - 2011) - American Rocket and Computer Scientist
635. Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933 - 2014) - French-American Particle Physicist
636. Tomoko Ohta (1933 -) - Japanese Geneticist
637. Myriam Sarachik (1933 - 2021) - Belgian-American Physicist
638. Etta Zuber Falconer (1933 - 2002) - American Mathematics Lecturer
639. Jane Goodall (1934 -) - British Primatologist and Anthropologist
640. Patricia Jacobs (1934 -) - Scottish Geneticist
641. Sylvia Earle (1935 -) - American Marine Biologist
642. Noreen Murray (1935 - 2011) - British Molecular Geneticist
643. Inge Schmitz-Fuerhake (1935 -) - German Physicist
644. Karen Sparck Jones (1935 - 2007) - British Computer Scientist
645. Evelyn Fox Keller (1936 - 2023) - American Physicist and Author
646. Helen T. Edwards (1936 - 2016) - American Physicist
647. Rosemary Grant (1936 -) - British Evolutionary Biologist
648. Daphne Jackson (1936 - 1991) - British Nuclear Physicist
649. Patricia Cladis (1937 - 2017) - Canadian Physicist and Mathematician
650. Alison Jolly (1937 - 2014) - American Primatologist
651. Teresa Maryańska (1937 - 2019) - Polish Palaeontologist
652. Grace Oladunni Taylor (1937 -) - Nigerian Biochemist
653. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937 -) - Russian Cosmonaut
654. Lorna Casselton (1938 - 2014) - British Biologist and Mycologist
655. Lynn Conway (1938 - 2024) - American Computer Scientist
656. Nancy M. Dowdy (1938 -) - American Nuclear Physicist
657. Judy Franz (1938 -) - American Physicist
658. Margaret Hamilton (1938 -) - American Computer Scientist and Mathematician
659. Reatha King Clark (1938 -) - American Chemist
660. Lynn Margulis (1938 - 2011) - American Biologist
661. Bridget Ogilvie (1938 -) - Australian Parasitologist
662. Margarita Salas (1938 - 2019) - Spanish Biochemist and Molecular Geneticist
663. Sheila Widnall (1938 -) - American Aerospace Researcher
664. Dana Ulery (1938 -) - American Computer Scientist
665. Barbara Askins (1939 -) - American NASA Chemist
666. Mary-Dell Chilton (1939 -) - American Biologist and Botanist
667. Mary K. Gaillard (1939 -) - America Particle Physicist
668. Judith Goslin Hall (1939 -) - American Clinical Geneticist
669. Barbara Liskov (1939 -) - American Computer Scientist
670. Ada E. Yonath (1939 -) - Israeli Crystallographer
671. Deborah Ajakaiye (1940 -) Nigerian Physicist
672. Mina Bissell (1940 -) - Iranian-American Breast Cancer Researcher
673. Louise Johnson (1940 - 2012) - British Biochemist and Protein Crystallographer
674. Evi Nemeth (1940 - 2013) - American Engineer and Expert in Computer System Administration
675. Anne Warner (1940 - 2012) - British Biologist
676. Lucy Shapiro (1940 -) - American Developmental Biologist
677. Sau Lan Wu (1940 -) – Chinese-American Physicist
20th Century (1941-1950)
678. Carole Jordan (1941 -) - British Astronomer
679. Darshan Ranganathan (1941 - 2001) - Indian Organic Chemist
680. Jane Richardson (1941 -) - American Biophysicist
681. Joan A. Steitz (1941 -) - American Biochemist and Molecular Biologist
682. Beatrice Tinsley (1941 - 1981) - New Zealand Astronomer and Cosmologist
683. Patricia Bath (1942 - 2019) - American Ophthalmologist
684. Suzanne Cory (1942 -) - Australian Biologist
685. Dianne Edwards (1942 -) - Welsh Palaeobotanist
686. Julia Higgins (1942 -) - British Polymer Scientist
687. Ann Kiessling (1942 -) - American Reproductive Biologist
688. Meave Leakey (1942 -) - British Palaeoanthropologist
689. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942 -) - German Developmental Biologist and Geneticist
690. Anita Roberts (1942 - 2006) - American Molecular Biologist
691. Kathleen C. Taylor (1942 -) – American Chemist
692. Jean Thomas (1942 -) - Welsh Chemist
693. Elisabeth Vrba (1942 - 2025) - German-American Palaeontologist
694. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -) - Northern Irish Astrophysicist
695. Helen M. Berman (1943 -) - American Structural Biologist
696. Deborah Charlesworth (1943 -) - British Evolutionary Biologist
697. Brigid Hogan (1943 -) – British American Developmental Biologist
698. Paulien Hogeweg (1943 -) - Dutch Theoretical Biologist
699. Nancy Hopkins (1943 -) - American Molecular Biologist
700. Renata Kallosh (1943 -) - Russian Theoretical Physicist
701. Lorella M. Jones (1943 - 1995) - Canadian Physicist
702. Evelyn Nelson (1943 - 1987) - Canadian Mathematician
703. Helen Quinn (1943 -) - Australian Particle Physicist
704. Valerie Thomas (1943 -) - American Inventor
705. Sandra Moore Faber (1944 -) - American Astrophysicist
706. Bernadine Healy (1944 - 2011) - American Physician
707. Gail R. Martin (1944 -) – American Developmental Biologist
708. Margaret W. Rossiter (1944 -) - American Science Historian
709. Jill Tarter (1944 -) - American Astronomer
710. Patricia Vickers-Rich (1944 -) - Australian Palaeontologist
711. Roberta Bondar (1945 -) - Canadian Neurologist
712. Marian Dawkins (1945 -) - British Biologist
713. Adele Goldberg (1945 -) - Computer Scientist
714. Judith Howard (1945 -) - British Biochemist and Crystallographer
715. Gerta Keller (1945 -) - Swiss Palaeontologist
716. Philippa Marrack (1945 -) - British Biologist and Immunologist
717. Dusa McDuff (1945 -) - British Mathematician
718. Eugenia Maria del Pino Veintimilla (1945 -) - Ecuadorian Developmental Biologist
719. Cheryll Tickle (1945 -) - British Developmental Biologist
720. Nancy Wexler (1945 -) - American Geneticist
721. Valerie Beral (1946 - 2022) - Australian Epidemiologist and Cancer Epidemiologist
722. Catherine Brechigac (1946 - ) - French Physicist
723. Anna Curenius Roosevelt (1946 - ) - American Archaeologist
724. Birutė Galdikas (1946 - ) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist
725. Shirley Ann Jackson (1946 - ) - American Physicist
726. Mary-Claire King (1946 - ) - American Geneticist
727. Daniela Rhodes (1946 - )- Italian Molecular Biologist
728. Joan Roughgarden (1946 - ) - American Evolutionary Biologist
729. María Teresa Ruis (1946 - ) Chilean Astronomer
730. Ruth Shady (1946 - ) Peruvian Archaeologist
731. Fiona Stanley (1946 - ) - Australian Epidemiologist and Public Health Worker
732. Shirley Tilghman (1946 - ) - Canadian Molecular Biologist
733. Veronica van Heyningen (1946 - ) - British Geneticist
734. Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946 -) - Ukrainian Astronomer
735. Elizabeth Anionwu (1947 - ) British Nurse
736. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947 - ) - French Virologist
737. Linda B. Buck (1947 - ) - American Biologist
738. Margaret Chan (1947 - ) - Chinese-Canadian Director-General of WHO 2007- 2017
739. Jenny Clack (1947 - 2020) - British English Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist
740. Mary Cleave (1947 - ) - American Environmental Engineer and Astronaut
741. Janet Darbyshire (1947 - ) - British Epidemiologist and Science Administrator
742. Temple Grandin (1947 - ) - American Animal Scientist
743. Gail Hanson (1947 - ) - American Experimental Particle Physicist
744. Jane Lubchenco (1947 - ) - American Environmental Scientist
745. Polly Matzinger (1947 - ) - French Immunologist
746. Barbara A. Schaal (1947 - ) - German Born American Evolutionary Scientist
747. Phyllis Starkey (1947 - ) - British Biomedical Researcher
748. Elizabeth Blackburn (1948 - ) - Australian-American Molecular Biologist
749. Rivka Carmi (1948 - ) - Israeli Paediatrician and Geneticist
750. Pascale Cossart (1948 - ) - French Bacteriologist
751. Barbara Pearse (1948 - ) - British Biologist
752. Karen Wetterhahn (1948 - 1997) - American Chemist
753. Danielle Bunten Berry (1949 - 1998) - American Game Designer and Computer Programmer
754. Fan Chung (1949 - ) - Taiwanese -American Mathematician
755. Heather Couper (1949 - 2020) - British Astronomer
756. Sally Davies (1949 - ) - Chief Medical Officer for England 2010-2019
757. Ann Druyan (1949 - ) - American Author
758. Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
759. Sue Hendrickson (1949 - ) - American Palaeontologist
760. Susan Lindquist (1949 - 2016) - American Molecular Biologist
761. Barbara J. Meyer (1949 - ) - American Geneticist
762. Judith Resnik (1949 - 1986) - American Engineer and NASA Astronaut
763. Janet Thornton (1949 - ) - British Bioinformatician
764. Jean Beggs (1950 - ) - British Geneticist
765. Nitza Margarita Cintrón (1950 - ) - Puerto Rican Chief of Space Medicine at NASA Johnson Space Center
766. Jane Clarke (1950 -) - British Biochemist
767. Anne Dell (1950 - ) - Australian Biochemist
768. Louise Dolan (1950 - ) - American Mathematical Physicist
769. Elaine Fuchs (1950 - ) - American Cell Biologist
770. Linda Partridge (1950 - ) - British Geneticist
771. Janet Rossant (1950 - ) - English Developmental Biologist
20th-21st Century (1951-Present)
772. Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 - ) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician
773. Susan Blackmore (1951 - ) - British Writer
774. Kay Davies (1951-)- British Geneticist
775. Susan Greenfield (1951-)- British Neurologist
776. Martha P. Haynes (1951 - ) - American Astronomer and Astrophysicist
777. Susan Hockfield (1951 - ) - American Neurobiologist
778. Marcia McNutt (1951 - ) - American Geophysicists
779. Anne Mills (1951 - ) - British Health Economist
780. Chiara Nappi (1951 - ) - Italian Physicist
781. Mazlan Othman (1951 -) Malaysian Astrophysicist
782. Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) -American Physicist and Astronaut
783. Kathyrn D. Sullivan (1951- ) American geologist and Astronaut
784. Frances Ashcroft (1952 - ) - British Geneticist and Physiologist
785. Ann Dowling (1952 - ) - British Mechanical Engineer
786. Anita Harding (1952 - 1995) - Irish-British Neuroscientist
787. Mariann Bienz (1953 - ) - Swiss Molecular Biologist
788. Athene Donald (1953 - ) - British Physicist
789. Georgina Mace (1953 - 2020) - British Conservational Biologist
790. Carolyn Porco (1953 - ) - American Planetary and Imagery Scientist
791. Susan Mary Rees (1953 - ) - British Mathematician
792. Florence Wambugu (1953 - ) - Kenyan Plant Pathologist and Virologist
793. Lesley Jane Yellowlees (1953 - ) - British Chemist
794. Ingrid Daubechies (1954 - ) - Belgian Physicist and Mathematician
795. Joanna Haigh (1954 - ) - British Physicist
796. Christine Holt (1954 - ) - British Developmental Neuroscientist
797. Cynthia Jane Kenyon (1954 - ) - American Molecular Biologist
798. Anne O’Garra (1954 - ) - British Immunologist
799. Adriana Albini (1955 - ) Italian Pathologist
800. Marian Croak (1955 -) - American Software Engineer
801. Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (1955 -) - American Forensic Scientist
802. Claire M. Fraser (1955 - ) - American Microbiologist
803. Katalin Karikó (1955 - ) Hungarian-American Biochemist
804. Nancy Rothwell (1955 - ) - British Pathologist
805. Maria Abbracchio (1956 - ) - Italian Pharmacologist
806. Frances Arnold (1956 - ) - American Chemical Engineer
807. Gillian Bates (1956 - ) - British Biologist
808. Rosa Beddington (1956 - 2001) - British Developmental Biologist
809. Pamela J. Bjorkman (1956 - ) - American Chemist
810. A. Catrina Coleman (1956 - ) - Scottish Electrical Engineer
811. Melissa Franklin (1956 - ) - Canadian Particle Physicist
812. Mae Jemison (1956 - ) - American Physician and Astronaut
813. Carol V. Robinson (1956 -) - British Chemist
814. Penny Sackett (1956 - ) - American-Australian Astronomer
815. Susan Solomon (1956 - ) - American Atmospheric Chemist
816. Fiona Watt (1956 - ) - British Biologist
817. Janet Hemingway (1957 - ) - British Vector Biologist
818. Doreen Cantrell (1957 - ) - Scottish Immunologist
819. Susana López Charretón (1959 - ) - Mexican Virologist
820. Hannah Monyer (1957 - ) - German Neurobiologist
821. Elizabeth Robertson (1957 - ) - British Developmental Biologist
822. Lynn Rothschild (1957 - ) - American Evolutionary Biologist and Astrobiologist
823. Maria Spillantini (1957 - ) - Italian Molecular Neurologist
824. Manuela Maria Veloso (1957 - ) - Portuguese Computer Scientist
825. Karen Vousden (1957 - ) - British Medical Researcher
826. Sophie Wilson (1957 - ) - British Computer Scientist
827. Gloria Galeano Garcés (1958 - 2016) - Colombian Botanist
828. Susan Helms (1958 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
829. Anne L’ Huillier (1958 - ) French-Swedish Physicist
830. Tiiu Kull (1958 - ) - Estonian Botanist
831. Ann Nelson (1958 - 2019) - American Particle Physicist
832. Ellen Ochoa (1958 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
833. Margaret Ogola (1958 - 2011) - Kenyan Paediatrician and Author
834. Margaret J. Profet (1958 -) - American Evolutionary Biologist
835. Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1958 - ) - American Climatologist
836. Fiona Wood (1958 - ) - British-Australian Plastic Surgeon
837. Maria Zuber (1958 - ) - American Planetary Scientist
838. Claudia Alexander (1959 - 2015) - American Geophysicist and Planetary Scientist
839. Anita Borg (1959 - 2003) - American Computer Programmer
840. Andrea Brand (1959 - ) - American Molecular and Developmental Biologist
841. Danese Cooper (1959 - ) - American Computer Scientist and Programmer
842. Mercedes Doretti (1959 - ) - Argentine Forensic Anthropologist
843. Deborah Estrin (1959 - ) - American Computer Scientist
844. Shafi Goldwasser (1959 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist
845. Lene Hau (1959 - ) - Danish Physicist
846. Frances Kirwan (1959 - ) - British Mathematician
847. Gitte Moos Knudsen (1959 - ) - Danish Neurobiologist
848. Arati Prabhakar (1959 - ) - American Engineer
849. Joanne Pransky (1959 - 2023) - American Roboticist, ‘Robotic Psychiatrist’
850. Donna Strickland (1959 -) Canadian Physicist
851. Linda Avey (1960 -) - American Biologist
852. Catherine Coleman (1960 -) - American Chemist and Astronaut
853. Beth Levine (1960 - 2020) - American Microbiologist
854. Peggy Whitson (1960 -) - American Biochemist and Astronaut
855. Elizabeth Simpson (fl. 1960s) - British Biologist and Immunologist
856. Sue Black (1961 -) - Scottish Forensic Anthropologist
857. Cecilia Bouzat (1961 -) - Argentine Neuroscientist
858. Lynn Gladden (1961 -) - British Chemical Engineer
859. Carole Goble (1961 -) - British Computer Scientist
860. Carol W. Greider (1961 -) - American Molecular Biologist
861. Kalpana Chawla (1962 - 2003) - Indian Aerospace Engineer
862. Michele Dougherty (1962-) - British Astrophysicist
863. Fabiola Gianotti (1962 -) - Italian Particle Physicist
864. Sarah Gilbert (1962 -) - British Vaccinologist
865. Lisa Randall (1962 -) - American Theoretical Physicist
866. Ulrike Tillmann (1962 -) - German Mathematician
867. Safaa Kumari (1963 -) Syrian Plant Virologist
868. Jane Luu (1963 -) - Vietnamese-American Astronomer
869. Misha Mahowald (1963 - 1996) -American Computational Neurologist
870. May-Britt Moser (1963 -) Norwegian Neuroscientist
871. Sania Nishtar (1963 -) Pakistani Physician
872. Fiona Powrie (1963 -) - British Immunologist
873. Daniela L. Rus (1963 -) - Romanian Born Roboticist, Pioneer in A.I.
874. Rabia Salihu Sa’id (1963 -) - Nigerian Atmospheric Physicist
875. Helen Sharman (1963 -) - British Chemist
876. Jennifer Doudna (1964 -) - American Biochemist, CRISPR Developer
877. Sonia Alconini (1965 -) Bolivian Archaeologist
878. Anja Cetti Anderson (1965 -) - Danish Astrophysicist and Author
879. Mandy Chessell (1965 -) - British Engineer and Computer Scientist
880. Jeong Eun-kyeong (1965 -) South Korean Public Health Expert
881. Andrea Ghez (1965 -) - American Astronomer
882. Edith Heard (1965 -) - French Geneticist
883. Anousheh Ansari (1966 -) - Iranian Engineer and Astronaut
884. Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966 -) - American Chemist
885. Jaime Levy (1966 -) - American Software Designer
886. Evelyn Miralles (1966 -) - Venezuelan NASA Computer Engineer
887. Antje Boetius (1967 -) - German Marine Biologist
888. Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (1967 -) - American Robotics Engineer
889. Claire F. Gmachi (1967 -) - Austrian Electrical Engineer
890. Victoria Kaspi (1967 -) - Canadian Astrophysicist
891. Hayat Sindi (1967 -) - Saudi Medical Researcher
892. Maggie Aderin-Pocock (1968 -) - British Space Scientist
893. MiMi Aung (1968 -) - Burmese-American Engineer
894. Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968 -) - French Geneticist, Developer of CRISPR
895. Daphne Koller (1968 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist
896. Deborah S. Jin (1968 -) - American Physicist
897. Hope Jahren (1979 -) - American Geochemist
898. Maria Fadiman (1969 -) - American Ethnobotanist
899. Priyamvada Natarajan (1969 -) - Indian Astrophysicist
900. Dana Angluin (fl. 1970s) - American Computer Scientist
901. Olanike Adeyemo (1970 -) - Nigerian Veterinarian
902. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (1970 -) - Ugandan Veterinarian and Conservationist
903. Nicole King (1970 -) - American Biologist
904. Julie Makani (1970 -) Tanzanian Biomedical Researcher
905. Eleanor Maguire (1970 -) - Irish Neuroscientist and Memory Researcher
906. Patricia Simpson (fl. 1970s) - British Developmental Biologist
907. Amanda Barnard (1971 -) - Theoretical Physicist
908. Sara Seager (1971 -) - Canadian-American Astronomer and Planetary Scientist
909. Ruth Lawrence (1971 -) - British-Israeli Mathematician
910. Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971 -) - Greek Theoretical Physicist
911. Ayanna Howard (1972 -) - American Roboticist
912. Pamela Gay (1973 -) - American Astronomer and Writer
913. Anita Goel (1973 -) - American Physician, Physicist in Nanotechnology
914. Marjolein Kriek (1973 -) - Dutch Clinical Geneticist
915. Pardis Sabeti (1975 -) - Iranian-American Computational Biologist
916. Dilek Gürsoy (1976 -) German Heart Surgeon
917. Lubna Tahtamouni (1976 -) - Jordanian Developmental Biologist
918. Beth Shapiro (1976 -) - Molecular Evolutionary Biologist
919. Kathrin Bringmann (1977 -) - German Mathematician
920. Samantha Cristoforetti (1977 -) - Italian Astronaut
921. Lisa Kaltenegger (1977 -) - Austrian Astronomer Focusing on the Search for Life
922. Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) - Iranian Mathematician; 1st Female Winner of the Fields Medal
923. Jessica Meir (1977 -) - American Marine Biologist and Astronaut
924. Melissa Trainer (1978 -) - American Astrobiologist
925. Christina Koch (1979 -) - American Electrical Engineer and Astronaut
926. Karen Masters (1979 -) - British Astrophysicist
927. Asha de Vos (1979 -) - Sri Lankan Marine Biologist
928. Amanda Gay Fisher (fl. 1980s) - British Cell Biologist
929. Audrey Tang (1981 -) - Taiwanese Computer Programmer
930. Maryna Viazovska (1984 -) - Ukrainian Mathematician
931. Niloufar Bayani (1986 -) - Iranian Conservational Biologist
932. Sirisha Bandla (1987 -) - Indian - American Aeronautical Engineer
933. Katie Bouman (1989 -) - American Engineer and Computer Scientist
934. Joy Crisp (fl. 1989) - American Planetary Geologist
935. Tasneem Zehra Husain (fl. 1990s) - Pakistani Theoretical Physicist
936. Nicola Pellow (fl. 1990s) - British Computer Scientist
937. Ellen Spertus (fl. 1990s) - American Computer Scientist
938. Margaret A. Stanley (fl. 1990s -) - British Virologist and Epithelial Biologist
939. Anastasia Volkova (1991 -) - Ukrainian Agricultural Scientist
940. Aye Nyein Thu (1995 -) - Burmese Doctor
941. Afra Karim (1995 - 2012) - Pakistani Computer Prodigy
942. Yasmin Altwaijri (fl. 2000s) - Saudi Epidemiologist
943. Mary Higby Schweitzer (fl. 2000s) - American Palaeontologist
944. Karen P. Steel (fl. 2000s) - British Geneticist
945. Salinee Tavaranan (fl. 2000s) - Thai Mechanical Engineer
946. Mary Voytek (fl. 2000s) - American Astrobiologist
947. Lauren Gardner (fl. 2000s) - American Engineer
948. Yuki Okoda (fl. 2000s) - Japanese Astronomer
949. Jane Rigby (fl. 2000s) - American Palaeontologist
950. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji (fl. 2000s) - Cameroonian Virologist and Ethics Campaigner