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. Cleopatra the Physician (c. 100 AD) - Ancient Greek Medical Writer
11. Mary the Prophetess (c. 100 - 300 AD) - Ancient Egyptian Alchemist
12. Metrodora (c. 300 AD) - Ancient Greek Physician
13. Cleopatra the Alchemist (c. 3rd Century AD) - Ancient Egyptian Alchemist, and Author
14. Aemilia Hilaria (c. 300 - 363 AD) - Gallo-Roman Physician
15. Pandrosion (c. 300 - 360 AD) - Ancient Greek Mathematician
16. Hypatia (c. 355 - 415 AD) - Alexandrian Philosopher and Mathematician
17. Aspasia the Physician (c. 400 AD) - Greek Midwife and Gynaecologist
18. Bao Gu (fl. 4th Century AD) - Chinese Physician
The Middle Ages
19. Rufaida Al-Aslamia (c. 620 AD) - Saudi Nurse
20. Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (c.10th Century) - Syrian Astronomer and Astrolabe Maker
21. Keng Hsien-Seng (c. 975) - Chinese Alchemist
22. Anna Komnena (1083 - 1153) - Byzantine Physician
23. Hildegard of Bingen (1099 - 1179) - German Philosopher and Polymath
24. Adelle of the Saracens (c. 12th Century) - Italian Physician and Teacher
25. Dobrodeia of Kyiv (1108 - 1131) - Byzantine Medical Author
26. Sun Bu’er (c. 1119 - 1182) Chinese Chemist
27. Herrad of Landsberg (c. 1130 - 1195) - Alsatian Nun and Theologian
28. Zulema L’Astrologa (c. 1190 - 1229) - Moorish Astronomer
29. Trota di Ruggiero/Ladies of Salerno (c. 12-13th Century) - A Group of Female Physicians and Medical Writers
30. Magistra Hersend (c. 1249 - 1259) - French Surgeon and Royal Physician
31. Dame Péronelle (1292 - 1319) - French Herbalist
32. Abella of Salerno (c. 14th century) - Italian Physician and Teacher
33. Adelmota of Carrara (c. 14th Century) - Italian Physician and Obstetrician
34. Mercuriade (c. 14th Century) - Italian Surgeon and Medical Author
35. Rebecca de Guarna (c. 14th Century) - Italian Surgeon
36. Alessandra Giliani (c. 1307 - 1326) - Italian Pathologist
37. Jacobina Félice de Almania (fl. 1322 Century) - Italian Physician
38. Dorotea Bucca (1360 - 1436) - Italian Physician and Chair of Medicine (University of Bologna)
39. Peretta Peronne (fl. 1411) - French Surgeon
40. Constance Calenda (c. 1415) - Italian Eye Surgeon
41. Tan Yunxian (1461 - 1554) - Chinese Physician
42. Jang-Geum (c. 1474 - 1550) - Korean Physician
43. Guillemette du Luys (fl. 1479) - French Surgeon
44. Gentile Budrioli (d. 1498) - Italian Astrologer
45. Clarice di Durisio (c. 15th Century)- Italian Physician
16th Century
46. Agatha Streicher (1520 - 1581) - German Physician
47. Helena Magenbuch (1523 - 1597) - German Pharmacist
48. Marie de Brimeu (c.1550-1605) - Finnish Botanist
49. Catherine de Parthenay (1554 - 1631) - French Mathematician
50. Sophia Brahe (1556 - 1643) - Danish Horticulturalist
51. Isabella Cortese (c.1561) - Italian Alchemist
52. Louise Bourgeois Boursier (1563 - 1636) - French Midwife
53. Caterina Vitale (1566 - 1619) - Maltese Pharmacist
54. Loredana Marcello (c. 1572) - Italian Botanist
55. Elinor Sneshell (c. 1593) - English Barber Surgeon
17th Century
56. Martine Bertereau (c. 1600 - after 1642) - French Mineralogist
57. Maria Cunitz (1610 - 1664) - German-Polish Astronomer
58. Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 - 1680) - French Chemist and Alchemist
59. Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) - English Philosopher, Writer, and Publisher of Early Modern Science
60. Elizabeth Walker (1623 - 1690) - English Pharmacist
61. Justine Siegemund (1636 - 1705) - German Midwife
62. Marie Crous (fl. 1640) - French Mathematician; Introduced the Decimal System to France
63. Marguerite de la Sabliere (1640 - 1693) - French Hostess and Patron of Poets, Scientists and Writers
64. Anna Ȧkerhielm (1647 - 1698) - Swedish Writer and Traveller
65. Elisabeth Hevelius (1647 - 1693) - German-Polish Astronomer
66. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717) - German Naturalist and Scientific Illustrator
67. Eleanor Glanville (1654 - 1709) - English Entomologist
68. Jeanne Dumée (1660 - 1706) - French Astronomer
69. Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670 - 1720) - German Astronomer
70. Jane Sharp (fl. 1671) - English Midwife
71. Sybilla Masters (1675 - 1720) - American Inventor of the Corn Mill
72. Maria Clara Eimmart (1676 - 1707) - German Astronomer
73. Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684 -1777) - Italian Mathematician
74. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) - English Pioneer of Modern Medicine by the Use of Variolation
75. Christine Kirch (1696 - 1782) - German Astronomer
76. Charlotta Frölich (1698 - 1770) - Swedish Agronomist
18th Century
77. Martha Daniell Logan (1704 - 1779) - American Botanist
78. Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749) - French Mathematician and Physicist
79. Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778) - 1st Woman to Earn a University Chair in a Scientific Field
80. Dorothea Erxleben (1715 - 1762) - German 1st Female Medical Doctor in Germany
81. Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716 - 1774) - Italian Anatomist
82. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718 - 1799)- Italian Mathematician and Philosopher
83. Marie Marguerite Bihéron (1719 - 1795) - French Anatomist and Illustrator
84. Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720 - 1805) - French Chemist
85. Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722 - 1793) - American Agriculturist
86. Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1792) - French Astronomer and Mathematician
87. Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723 - 1786) - Dutch Poet and Physical Scientist
88. Jane Colden (1724 - 1766) - American Botanist
89. Eva Ekeblad (1724 - 1786 ) - Swedish Agronomist
90. Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon (1724 - 1767) - French Mathematician
91. Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728 - 1825) - Italian Translator, Mathematician and Physicist
92. Maria Christina Bruhn (1732 - 1802) - Swedish Inventor of Gunpowder Packaging
93. Cristina Roccati (1732 - 1797) - Italian Teacher of Physics
94. Elsa Beata Bunge (1734 - 1819) - Swedish Botanist
95. Jacoba van den Brande (1735 - 1794) - Dutch Founder of the 1st All-Female Science Academy in the World
96. Jeanne Baret (1740 - 1807) - French Explorer and Botanist
97. Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (1743 - 1788) - Italian Laboratory Scientist
98. Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743 - 1782) - Swedish Botanist
99. Louise du Pierry (1746 - 1791) - French Astronomer and Professor
100. Marie Le Masson Le Golft (1749 - 1826) - French Naturalist
101. Caroline Herschel (1750 - 1848) - German Astronomer
102. Maria Lullin (1751 - 1822) - Swiss Entomologist
103. Mary Kies (1752 - 1837) - American Inventor - weaving
104. Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755 - 1814) - Possible Contributor to the Invention of Cotton Gin with Eli Whitney
105. Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1758 - 1836) - French Chemist
106. Maria Petraccini (1759 - 1791) - Italian Anatomist and Physician
107. Margaret Bryan (c.1759 - 1836) - English Author and Teacher
108. Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (1760 - 1830) - Italian Botanist
109. Maria Medina Coeli (1764 - 1846) - Italian Physician and Inventor
110. Amelia Griffiths (1768 - 1858) - English Phycologist
111. Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande (1768 - 1832) - French Astronomer and Mathematician
112. Wang Zhenyi (1768 - 1797) - Chinese Astronomer and Mathematician
113. Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769 - 1821) - French Midwife and Gynaecologist
114. Jane Marcet (1769 - 1858) - English Writer of Popular Science Books
115. Marie Boivin (1773 - 1841) - French Midwife and Inventor
116. Hannah Slater (1774 - 1812) - American Inventor - Cotton Sewing Thread
117. Etheldred Benett (1776 - 1845) - English Geologist
118. Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - French Mathematician and Physicist
119. Lady Hester Stanhope (1776 - 1839) - English Adventurer and Archaeologist
120. Harriet Henrietta Beaufort (1778 - 1865) - British-Irish Botanist
121. Maria Dalle Donne (1778 - 1842) - Italian Physician and Director at the University of Bologna
122. Anna Maria Walker (c. 1778 - 1852) - Scottish Botanist
123. Tabitha Babbitt (1779 - 1853) - American Inventor of the Circular Saw
124. Elizabeth Philpot (1780 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist
125. Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Scottish Astronomer and Science Writer
126. Marie-Anne Libert (1782 - 1865) - Belgian Botanist and Mycologist
127. Mary Anne Whitby (1784 - 1850) - English Silkworm Cultivator
128. Ellen Hutchins (1785 - 1815) - Irish Botanist
129. Faustina Pignatelli (d. 1785) - Italian Mathematician
130. Josephine Kablick (1787 - 1863) - Czech Botanist and Palaeontologist
131. Maria Jansson (Kisamor) (1788 - 1842) - Swedish Natural Doctor
132. Charlotte Murchison (1788 - 1869) - Scottish Geologist
133. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793 - 1884) - American Botanist
134. Frances Acton (1794 - 1881) - English Botanist
135. Elizabeth Fulhame (c. 1794) - Scottish Chemist
136. Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794 - 1871) - French Marine Biologist
137. Anna Sundström (1795 - 1871) - Swedish Chemist
138. Mary Buckland (1797 - 1857) - English Palaeontologist
139. Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) - English Fossil Collector and Palaeontologist
140. Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871) - English Botanist and Photographer
19th Century (1800-1849)
141. Anna Volkova (c. 1800 - 1876) - Russian Chemist
142. Lovisa Åhrberg (1801 - 1881) - Swedish Surgeon
143. Amalia Assur (1803 - 1889) - Swedish Dentist
144. Anna Maria Hussey (1805 - 1853) - English Mycologist
145. Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808 - 1872) - Irish Algologist, Botanist, and Illustrator
146. Caterina Scarpellini (1808 - 1873) - Italian Astronomer
147. Marie Josefina Mathilde Durocher (1809 - 1893)- Brazilian Obstetrician
148. Mary Ball (1812 - 1892) - Irish Entomologist
149. Mary Brush (fl. 1815) - American Inventor - Corset
150. Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852) - English Mathematician
151. Elizabeth Carne (1817 - 1873) - English Geologist and Mineralogist
152. Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) - American Astronomer
153. Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - English Statistician and Founder of Modern Nursing
154. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - British-American Physician
155. Amalie Dietrich (1821 - 1891) - German Naturalist
156. Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822 - 1907) - American Naturalist
157. Morgan Dee Voon (1825 - 1870) - Austro-Hungarian/Czech Geneticist
158. Emily Blackwell (1826-1910) - American Physician
159. Martha Jane Coston (1826 - 1904) - American Inventor of the Coston Flare
160. Marie Pasteur (1826 - 1910) - French Laboratory Scientist
161. Mary Walton- (c. 1827-?) - American Inventor of Pollution Reduction Devices
162. Johanna Mestorf (1828 - 1909) - German Archaeologist
163. Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828 - 1901) - English Entomologist
164. Hanna Hammarström (1829 - 1909) - Swedish Inventor (Telephone wire) and Industrialist
165. Maria Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829 - 1902) - German Physician
166. Elizabeth Brown (1830 - 1899) - British Astronomer
167. Clémence Royer (1830 - 1902) - French Translator of On the Origin of Species
168. Mary Treat (1830 - 1923) - American Naturalist
169. Isabella Bird (1831 - 1904) - English Explorer and Naturalist
170. Mary Everest Boole (1832 - 1916) - English Mathematician
171. Harriet Mann Miller (Olive Thorne Miller) (1831 - 1918) - American Naturalist and Ornithologist
172. Zsófia Torma (1832 - 1899) - Hungarian Archaeologist, Anthropologist and Paleontologist
173. Mary Walker (1832 - 1919) - American Surgeon
174. Lucy Hobbs Taylor (1833 - 1910) - American Dentist
175. Louisa Atkinson (1834 - 1872) - Australian Botanist
176. Susan Hallowell (1835 - 1911) - America Botanist
177. Emmy Rappe (1835 - 1896) - Swedish Nurse
178. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 - 1917) - English Physician
179. Maria E. Beasley (1836 - 1913) - American Inventor
180. Johanna Heden (1837 - 1912) - Swedish Midwife and Barber Surgeon
181. Mary Albertson (1838 - 1914) - American Botanist and Astronomer
182. Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 - 1923) - American Ethnologist
183. Margaret E. Knight (1838 - 1914) - American Inventor
184. Alexandra Smirnoff (1838 - 1913) - Finnish Pomologist
185. Josephine Garis Cochrane (1839 - 1913) - American Inventor of Hand-Powered Dishwasher
186. Rachel Lloyd (1839 - 1900) - American Chemist
187. Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 - 1912) - English Physician and Teacher
188. Praskovya Uvarova (1840 - 1924) - Russia Archaeologist
189. Rosalie Fougelberg (1841 - 1911) - Swedish Dentist
190. Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907) - Irish Astronomer
191. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842 - 1906) - American Physician
192. Ellen Swallow Richards (1842 - 1911) - American Industrial and Environmental Chemist
193. Isala Van Diest (1842 - 1916) - Belgian Physician
194. Emily Warren Roebling (1844 - 1903) - American Civil Engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge
195. Varvara Kashevarova Rudneva (1844 - 1899) - Russian Physician
196. Elizaveta Litvinova (1845 - 1919?) - Russian Mathematician
197. Marian Farquharson (1846 - 1912) - English Naturalist
198. Julia Lermontova (1846 - 1919) - Russian Chemist
199. Sarah Frances Whiting (1846 - 1927) - American Physicist and Astronomer
200. Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847 - 1930) - American Psychologist, Logician and Mathematician
201. Mary Watson Whitney (1847 - 1921) - American Astronomer and Head of the Vassar Observatory
202. Ellen F. Eglin (c. 1848 - 1890) - American Inventor of Clothes Wringer
203. Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins (1848 - 1915) - Irish Astronomer and Pioneer in Spectroscopy
204. Mary Murtfeldt (1848 - 1913) - American Entomologist
205. Cornelia Clapp (1849 - 1934) - American Marine Biologist
206. Louise Hammarström (1849 - 1917) - Swedish Chemist
19th Century (1850-1874)
207. Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) - Russian Mathematician
208. Ellen Hayes (1851 - 1930) - American Mathematician and Astronomer
209. Letitia Geer (1852 - 1935) - American Nurse and Inventor of the Modern Syringe
210. Isis Pogson (1852 - 1945) - English Astronomer and Meteorologist
211. Clara Southmayd Ludlow (1852 - 1924) - American Medical Entomologist
212. Laura Alberta Linton (1853 - 1915) - American Chemist
213. Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 - 1923) - English Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist, and Inventor
214. Anna Botsford Comstock (1854 - 1930) - American Conservationist
215. Elizabeth Gifford Peckham (1854 - 1940) - American Arachnologist, and Entomologist
216. Annie Lorrain Smith (1854 - 1937) - English Lichenologist
217. Clara Eaton Cummings (1855 - 1906) - American Botanist
218. Karolina Widerström (1856 - 1949) - Swedish Physician
219. Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (1856 - 1916) - Russian Chemist
220. Williamina Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Scottish Astronomer
221. Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857 - 1945) - American Physiologist and Inventor of Micro-Electrode
222. Zelia Nuttall (1857 - 1933) - American Archaeologist
223. Anna Winlock (1857 - 1904) - American Astronomer and ‘Human Computer’
224. Mary Adela Blagg (1858 - 1944) - English Astronomer
225. Elizabeth Bragg (1858 - 1929) - Structural Engineer
226. Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858 - 1934) - American Botanist
227. Grace Frankland (1858 - 1946) - English Microbiologist
228. Charlotte Scott (1858 - 1931) - English Mathematician
229. Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858 - 1947) - American Ichthyologist
230. Fanny Bullock Workman (1859 - 1925) - American Geographer, Cartographer, and Explorer
231. Margaret Crosfield (1859 - 1952) - English Palaeontologist
232. Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt (1859 - 1928) - American Pathologist
233. Alice Eastwood (1859 - 1953)- Canadian Botanist
234. Marcia Keith (1859 - 1950) - American Physics Teacher
235. Josephine Silone Yates (1859 - 1912) - American Chemist
236. Florence Cushman (1860 - 1940) - American Astronomer
237. Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860 - 1944) - American Physicist
238. Mary J. Rathbun (1860 - 1943) - American Zoologist
239. Hedda Andersson (1861 - 1950) - Swedish Physician
240. Dorothea Klumpke-Robert (1861 - 1942) - American Astronomer
241. Kirstine Meyer (1861 - 1941) - Danish Physicist
242. Nettie Stevens (1861 - 1912) - American Geneticist
243. Zonia Baber (1862 - 1955) - American Geologist
244. Florence Bascom (1862-1945) - American Geologist
245. Carrie Derick (1862 - 1941) - Canadian Geneticist and Botanist
246. Margaret Fountaine (1862 - 1940) - English Lepidopterist
247. Agnes Pockels (1862 - 1935) - German Chemist
248. Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - American Astronomer
249. Ida Freund (1863 - 1914) - Austrian University Chemistry Lecturer
250. Margaret Alice Murray (1863 - 1963) - English Egyptologist, Archaeologist, and Anthropologist
251. Ethel Sargant (1863 - 1918) - English Botanist
252. Ellen Churchill Semple (1863 - 1932) - American Geographer
253. Anna Wessels Williams (1863 - 1954) - American Microbiologist
254. Maria Gordon (1864 - 1939) - Scottish Geologist
255. Kate Gleason (1865 - 1933) - American Engineer
256. E. Lilian Todd (1865 - 1937) - American Airplane Designer
257. Mary Anderson (1866 - 1953) - American Inventor of the Windshield Wiper Blade
258. Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866 - 1952) - Argentine Physicist
259. Antonia Coetana Maury (1866 - 1952) - American Astronomer
260. Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) - English Natural Scientist
261. Vera Popova (1867 - 1896) - Russian Chemist
262. Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish-French Physicist and Chemist
263. Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926) - English Explorer and Archaeologist
264. Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868 - 1947) - Irish Astronomer and Mathematician
265. Philippa Fawcett (1868 - 1948) - English Mathematician
266. Emilie Snethlage (1868 - 1929) - German Naturalist and Ornithologist
267. Isabelle Stone (1868 - 1944) - American Physicist
268. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921) - American Astronomer
269. Grace Chisholm Young (1868 - 1944) - English Mathematician
270. Mary Agnes Meara Chase (1869 - 1963) - American Botanist
271. Maud Cunnington (1869 - 1951) - Welsh Archaeologist
272. Helen Dean King (1869 - 1955) - American Biologist
273. Emilie Martin (1869 - 1936) - American Mathematician
274. Edith Anne Stoney (1869 - 1938) - Irish Physicist
275. Clara Immerwahr (1870 - 1915) -German Chemist
276. Anna Stecksen (1870 - 1904) - Swedish Physician and Pathologist
277. Elmina T. Wilson (1870 - 1918)- American Structural Engineer; Sister of Alda H. Wilson
278. Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871 - 1945) - American Archaeologist
279. Olga Lepeshinskaya (1871 - 1963) - Russian Biologist
280. Jantina Tammes (1871 - 1947) - Dutch Botanist and Geneticist
281. Florence R. Sabin (1871 - 1953) - American Medical Scientist
282. Ethel Shakespear (1871 - 1946) - English Geologist
283. Elizabeth F. Fisher (1872 - 1941) - American Geologist
284. Fanny Gates (1872 - 1931) - American Physicist
285. Louisa Martindale (1872 - 1966) - English Physician and Surgeon
286. Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) - American Bacteriological Chemist
287. Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (1872 - 1952) - American Mycologist
288. Sara Josephine Baker (1873 - 1945) - American Physician and Public Health Pioneer
289. Florence Parpart (1873 - 1930) - American Inventor of the Refrigerator
290. Alda H. Wilson (1873 - 1960) - American Structural Engineer; Sister of Elmina T. Wilson
291. Nora Lilian Alcock (1874 - 1972) - English Plant Pathologist
292. Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874 - 1934) - English Surgeon
293. Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis (1874 - 1956) - American Botanist
294. Ninni Kronberg (1874 - 1946) - Swedish Physiologist and Nutritionist
295. Elizabeth Laird (1874 - 1969) - Canadian Physicist
19th Century (1875-1899)
296. Astrid Cleve (1875 - 1968) - Swedish Botanist, Geologist and Chemist
297. Edith Humphrey (1875 - 1978) - English Inorganic Chemist
298. Mileva Maric (1875 - 1948) - Serbian Physicist
299. Emily Arnesen (1876 - 1928) - Norwegian Zoologist
300. Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) - Canadian Nuclear Physicist
301. Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasyeva (1876 - 1964) - Russian-Dutch Mathematician
302. Gabrielle Howard (1876 - 1930) - English Plant Physiologist
303. Edith Marion Patch (1876 - 1954) - American Entomologist
304. Alice Grace Cook (1877 - 1958) - English Astronomer
305. Florence Annie Yeldham (1877 - 1945) - English Mathematics Historian
306. Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967) - Australian Medical Doctor and Educator
307. Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968) - Austrian-Swedish Nuclear Physicist
308. Theodora Lisle Prankerd (1878 - 1939) - English Botanist
309. Agnes Arber (1879 - 1960) - English Botanist
310. Vera Danchakoff (1879 - 1950) - Russian Cell Biologist
311. Ellen Gleditsch (1879 - 1968) - Norwegian Radiochemist
312. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879 - 1967) - English Botanist
313. Maud Menten (1879 - 1960) - Canadian Physician
314. Sophia Eckerson (1880 - 1954 ) - American Botanist and Microchemist
315. Margarete Kahn (1880 - 1942) - German Mathematician
316. Gabriele Rabel (1880 - 1963) - Austrian Physicist and Botanist
317. Marie Stopes (1880 - 1958) - British Palaeobotanist
318. Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880 - 1932) - English Biochemist
319. Kono Yasui (1880 - 1971) - Japanese Biologist
320. Alice Catherine Evans (1881 - 1975) - American Microbiologist
321. Alice Wilson (1881 - 1964) - Canadian Geologist and Palaeontologist
322. Eleanor Carothers (1882 - 1957) - American Zoologist and Geneticist
323. Raymonde de Laroche (1882 - 1919) - French Engineer and Pilot
324. Ann Haven Morgan (1882 - 1966) - American Zoologist and Ecologist
325. Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) - German Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
326. Alice Middleton Boring (1883 - 1955) - American Zoologist
327. Muriel Robertson (1883 - 1973) - Scottish Protozoologist and bacteriologist
328. Ethel Browne Harvey (1885 - 1965) - American Embryologist
329. Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (1885 - 1973) - Dutch Physicist
330. Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885 - 1975) - American Chemist and Inventor
331. Alice Perry (1885 - 1969) - Irish Civil Engineer
332. Marjory Stephenson (1885 - 1948) - English Biochemist and Microbiologist
333. Eileen Hendriks (1887 - 1978) - English Geologist
334. Hedwig Kohn (1887 - 1964) - German Physicist
335. Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888 - 1985) - English Archaeologist
336. Winifred Goldring (1888 - 1971) - American Palaeontologist
337. Inge Lehmann (1888 - 1993) - Danish Seismologist
338. Sara Branham Matthews (1888 - 1962) - American Microbiologist and Physician
339. Michiyo Tsujimura (1888 - 1969) - Japanese Biochemist
340. Lucy Wills (1888 - 1964) - English Haematologist
341. Lucy Wilson (1888 - 1980) - American Physicist
342. Annie Meinertzhagen (1889 - 1928) - Scottish Ornithologist
343. Julie Vinter Hansen (1890 - 1960) - Danish Astronomer
344. Euphemia Haynes (1890 - 1980) - American Mathematician
345. Pearl Kendrick (1890 - 1980) - American Bacteriologist
346. Elizabeth Rona (1890 - 1981) - Hungarian-American Chemist
347. Lidija Liepiņa (1891 - 1985) - Latvian Chemist
348. Edith Quimby (1891 - 1982) - American Medical Researcher and Nuclear Physicist
349. Hanna Rydh (1891 - 1964) - Swedish Archaeologist
350. A. Elizabeth Adams (1892 - 1962) - American Zoologist
351. Alice Ball (1892 - 1916) - American Pharmaceutical Chemist
352. Maude Bennot (1892 - 1982) - American Director of the Adler Planetarium
353. Dorothy Garrod (1892 - 1968) - English Archaeologist
354. Ruth C. McGuire (1893 - 1950) - American Botanist
355. Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1893 - 1973) - German-American Pathologist
356. Marietta Blau (1894 - 1970) - Austrian Physicist
357. Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894 - 1976) - English Mathematician and Biochemist
358. Cecilia Krieger (1894 - 1974) - Austro-Hungarian Mathematician
359. Helen S. Mitchell (1895 - 1984) - American Nutritionist
360. Alice H. Parker (1895 - 1920) - American Inventor of the Gas Furnace
361. Hertha Sponer (1895 - 1968) - German Physicist
362. Marguerite Williams (1895 - 1991) - American Geologist
363. Gerty Cori (1896 - 1957) - American Biochemist
364. Sheina Marshall (1896 - 1977) - Scottish Marine Zoologist
365. Dorothy M. Needham (1896 - 1987) - English Biochemist
366. Ida Noddack (1896 - 1978) - German Chemist and Physicist
367. Hazel K. Stiebeling (1896 - 1989) - American Nutritionist
368. Ana Aslan (1897 - 1988) - Romanian Physician and Biologist
369. Isabel Bassett Wasson (1897 - 1994) - American Petroleum Geologist
370. Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897 - 1931) - English Zoologist and herpetologist
371. Lili Bleeker (1897 - 1985) - Dutch Physicist
372. Jole Bovio Marconi (1897 - 1986) - Italian Archaeologist
373. Tilly Edinger (1897 - 1967) - German Palaeontologist
374. E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897 - 1984) - Indian Botanist
375. Irene Joliot-Curie (1897 - 1956) - French Physicist and Chemist
376. Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897 - 1968) - Bulgarian Physicist
377. Lucile Quarry Mann (1897 - 1986) - American Zoologist
378. Gertrud Theiler (1897 - 1986) - South African Parasitologist
379. Katharine Blodgett (1898 - 1979) - American Physicist
380. Doris Mable Cochran (1898 - 1968) - American Herpetologist
381. Rachel Fuller Brown (1898 - 1980)- American Chemist and Inventor
382. Katherine Esau (1898 - 1997) - German Botanist
383. Maria Klenova (1898 - 1976) - Russian Marine Geologist
384. Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) - German Embryologist
385. Bea Schwarz (1898 - 1969) - Dutch Phytopathologist
386. Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898 - 1990) - American Astronomer
387. Charlotte Auerbach (1899 - 1994) - German Zoologist and Geneticist
388. Anna Baetjer (1899 - 1984) - American Physiologist and toxicologist
389. Ann Bishop (1899 - 1990) - English Biologist and Parasitologist
390. Margaret Kennard (1899 - 1975) - American Neurologist
391. Jean Macnamara (1899 - 1968) -Australian Medical Doctor
392. Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899 - 2001)- Scottish Chemist
393. Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899 - 1999) - Russian Mathematician
394. Helen Porter (1899 - 1987) - English Botanist
395. Jane Stafford (1899 - 1991) - American Medical Writer and Early Science Communicator
396. Mildred Trotter (1899 - 1991) - American Forensic Anthropologist
397. Janet Vaughan (1899 - 1993) - British Physiologist20th Century (1900 - 1910)
398. Christine Buisman (1900 - 1936) - Dutch Phytopathologist
399. Mary L. Cartwright (1900 - 1998) - English Mathematician
400. Gertrude Mary Cox (1900 - 1978) - American Statistician
401. Honor Fell (1900 - 1986) - English Developer of Tissue Culture
402. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchikin (1900 - 1979) - British Astronomer and Astrophysicist
403. Maria Telkes (1900 - 1995) - Hungarian Inventor in Solar Energy
404. Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901 - 1963) - American Physician
405. Isabella Gordon (1901 - 1988) - Scottish Marine Biologist
406. Grete Hermann (1901 - 1984) - German Mathematician and Philosopher
407. Suzanne LeClercq (1901 - 1994) - Belgian Palaeobotanist
408. Marion Cameron Gray (1902 - 1979) - Scottish Mathematician
409. Sidnie Manton (1902 - 1979) - British Entomologist and Zoologist
410. Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992) - American Cytogeneticist
411. Grace E. Pickford (1902 - 1986) - American Biologist and Endocrinologist
412. Mary Pickford (1902 - 2002) - British Neuroendocrinologist
413. Mina Spiegel Rees (1902 - 1997) - American Mathematician
414. Madga Staudinger (1902 - 1997) - Latvian Biologist
415. Katharine Way (1902 - 1995) - American Physicist
416. Edith Bülbring (1903 - 1990) - British Pharmacologist
417. Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (1903 - 1974) - German Mathematician and Engineer
418. Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 - 1971) - British Crystallographer
419. Maria Reiche (1903 - 1998) - German-Peruvian Archaeologist
420. Bertha Swirles (1903 - 1999) - British Physicist
421. Marthe Vogt (1903 - 2003) - German Neuroscientist
422. Hertha Wambacher (1903 - 1950) - Austrian Physicist
423. Ruby Hirose (1904 - 1960) - American Chemist
424. Berta Karlik (1904 - 1990) - Austrian Physicist
425. Irene Manton (1904 - 1988) - British Botanist
426. Elsie MacGill (1905 - 1980) - Canadian Aeronautical Engineer
427. Rozsa Peter (1905 - 1977) - Hungarian Mathematician
428. Mary Sears (1905 - 1997) - American Oceanographer
429. Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906 - 1996) - American Mathematician
430. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906 - 1972) - German Theoretical Physicist
431. Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992) - American Computer Scientist
432. Kathleen Kenyon (1906 - 1978) - British Archaeologist
433. F. Gwendolen Rees (1906 - 1994) - Welsh Zoologist and Parasitologist
434. Alice Stewart (1906 - 2002) - British Physician and Epidemiologist
435. Joan du Plat Taylor (1906 - 1983) - British Archaeologist
436. Elsie Widdowson (1906 - 2000) - British Dietitian
437. Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964) - American Marine Biologist and Conservationist
438. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 - 2004) - South African Palaeontologist
439. Irene K. Fischer (1907 - 2009) - Austrian Mathematician
440. Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907 - 2007) - German-American Geneticist
441. Dorothy Hill (1907 - 1997) - Australian Geologist
442. Helen Megaw (1907 - 2002) - Irish Crystallographer
443. Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) - American Botanist and Limnologist
444. Melba Phillips (1907 - 2004) - American Physicist
445. Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (1907 - 1990) - British Biochemist
446. Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (1907 - 1997) - American Pharmacist
447. Myrtle Bachelder (1908 - 1997) - American Chemist; Researcher on the Manhattan Project
448. Yvette Cauchois (1908 - 1999) - French Physicist
449. Mary Parke (1908 - 1989) - British Marine Botanist
450. Mary Golda Ross (1908 - 2008) - American Aerospace Engineer
451. Miriam Rothschild (1908 - 2005) - British Natural Scientist and Entomologist
452. Tikvah Alper (1909 - 1995) - South African Physicist and Radiobiologist
453. Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974) - American Obstetrical Anaesthesiologist
443. Isobel Bennett (1909 - 2008) - Australian Marine Biologist
455. Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - 2012) - Italian Neurologist
456. Marguerite Perey (1909 - 1975) - French Physicist
457. Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909 - 1997) - Russian Physicist
458. Joy Adamson (1910 - 1980) - Czech Naturalist and Author
459. Jacquetta Hawkes (1910 - 1996) - British Archaeologist
450. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994) -British Biochemist
461. Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910 - 1993) - American Microbiologist
462. Dorothy Vaughan (1910 - 2008) - American Mathematician
20th Century (1911 - 1920)
463. Klára Dán von Neumann (1911 - 1963) - Hungarian-American Computer Programmer
464. Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911 - 1998) - German Nuclear Physicist
465. Kamala Sohonie (1911 - 1998) - Indian Biochemist
466. Greta Stevenson (1911 - 1990) - New Zealander Mycologist
467. Anna J. Harrison (1912 - 1998) - American Organic Chemist
468. Ruby Payne-Scott (1912 - 1981) - Australian Radiophysicist
469. Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997) - Chinese Experimental Physicist
470. Mildred Cohn (1913 - 2009) - American Biochemist
471. Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (1913 - 1985) - American Computer Scientist
472. Mary Leakey (1913 - 1996) - British Palaeontologist
473. Elizabeth S. Russell (1913 - 2001) - American Geneticist
474. Florence van Straten (1913 - 1992) - American Aerological Engineer
475. Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914 - 1988) - American Mathematician
476. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr) (1914 - 2000) - Austrian-American Inventor of Frequency Hopping
477. Ruth Turner (1914 - 2000) - American Marine Biologist
478. Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915 - 1981) - German Physicist
479. Liisi Oterma (1915 - 2001) - Finnish Astronomer
480. Winifred Pennington (1915 - 2007) - British Limnologist and Biologist
493. María de los Ángeles Alvariño González (1916 - 2005) - Spanish Oceanographer
481. Ruth Benerito (1926 - 2013) - American Inventor and Chemist
483. Halet Çambel (1916 - 2014) - Turkish Archaeologist
484. Joan Curran (1916 - 1999) - Welsh Physicist
485. Joyce Lambert (1916 - 2005) - English Botanist and Stratigrapher
486. Asima Chatterjee (1917 - 2006) - Indian Organic Chemist
487. Betty Holberton (1917 - 2001) - American Computer Programmer
488. Sameera Moussa (1917 - 1952) - Egyptian Nuclear Physicist
489. Carolyn Parker (1917 - 1966) - American Physicist
490. Kamal Ranadive (1917 - 2001) - Indian Biomedical Scientist
491. Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (1917 - 2003) - Siberian Born British Endocrinologist and Biochemist
492. Irene Ayako Uchida (1917 - 2013) - Canadian Down Syndrome Researcher
493. Gertrude B. Elion (1918 - 1999) - American Biochemist and Pharmacologist
494. Katherine Johnson (1918 - 2020) - American Physicist and Mathematician
495. Bruria Kaufman (1918 - 2010) - Israeli Theoretical Physicist
496. Anna Mani (1918 - 2001) - Indian Meteorologist and Physicist
497. Brenda Milner (1918 - ) - Canadian Neuropsychologist
498. Ruth Sanger (1918 - 2001) - Australian Haematologist and Serologist
499. Sheila Sherlock (1918 - 2001) - British Physician and Teacher
500. Anne Stine Ingstad (1918 - 1997) - Norwegian Archaeologist
501. Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919 - 2004) - American Surgeon
502. Margaret Burbidge (1919 - 2020) - British Astrophysicist
503. Patricia H. Clarke (1919 - 2010) - British Biochemist
504. Henriette Davidson Avram (1919 - 2006) - American Computer Programmer
505. Jean Hanson (1919 - 1973) - British Biophysicist and Zoologist
506. Mildred Rebstock (1919 - 2011) - American Chemist
507. Leona Woods Marshall (1919 - 1986) - American Physicist
508. Jane C. Wright (1919 - 2013) - American Cancer Researcher
509. Kateryna Yushchenko (1919 - 2001) - Ukrainian Computer Scientist
510. Leslie Barnett (1920 - 2002) - British Biologist
511. Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) - British Biophysicist and X-Ray Crystallographer
512. Adele Goldstine (1920 - 1964) - American Computer Programmer
513. Frances Meehan Latterell (1920 - 2008) - American Plant Pathologist
514. Helen Muir (1920 - 2005) - British Rheumatologist
515. Louise Reiss (1920 - 2011) - American Physician
516. Katsuko Saruhashi (1920 - 2007) - Japanese Geochemist
517. Marjorie Sweeting (1920 - 1994) - British Geomorphologist
518. Marie Tharp (1920 - 2006) - American Geologist and Cartographer
20th Century (1921 - 1930)
519. Ursula Franklin (1921 - 2016) - Canadian Metallurgist and Physicist
520. Phyllis S. Freier (1921 - 1992) - American Astrophysicist
521. Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994) - Lithuanian Archaeologist
522. Joan Hinton (1921 - 2010) - American Nuclear Physicist
523. Mary Jackson (1921 - 2005) - American Engineer
524. Marian Koshland (1921 - 1997) - American Immunologist
525. Beatrice Mintz (1921- 2022) - American Embryologist
526. Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Antonelli (1921 - 2006) - Irish Computer Programmer
527. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921 - 2011) - American Medical Physicist
528. Ālenush Teriān (1921 - 2011) - Iranian Astronomer
529. Giuliana Tesoro (1921 - 2002) - Italian-American Chemist
530. Xie Xide (1921 - 2000) - Chinese Physicist
531. Marie Van Brittan Brown (1922 - 1999) - American Inventor of Home Security Devices
532. Eugenie Clark (1922 - 2015)- American Ichthyologist
533. Esther M. Conwell (1922 - 2014) - American Physicist
534. Naomi Datta (1922 - 2008) - British Geneticist and Bacteriologist
535. Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922 - 2017) - French Mathematician
536. Margherita Hack (1922 - 2013) - Italian Physicist and Writer
537. Evans Hayward (1922 - 2020) - American Physicist
538. Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922 - 2010) - German Metallurgist
539. Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004) - Russian Mathematician
540. Ester Lederberg (1922 - 2006) - American Microbiologist and Pioneer in Bacterial Genetics
541. Frances Spence (1922 - 2012) -American Computer Programmer
542. Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer (1922 - 2008) - American Computer Programmer
543. Brigitte Askonas (1923 - 2013) - British Immunologist
544. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923 - ) - French Mathematician and Physicist
545. Sulamith Goldhaber (1923 - 1965) - American Physicist
546. Stephanie Kwolek (1923 - 2014) - American Chemist and Inventor
547. Joanne Simpson (1923 - 2010) - American Meteorologist
548. Janet Watson (1923 - 1985) - British Geologist
549. Yvonne Brill (1924 - 2013) - Canadian Rocket Scientist
550. Milla Baldo-Ceolin (1924 - 2011) - Italian Particle Physicist
551. Jean Bartik (1924 - 2011) - American Computer Programmer
552. Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924 - 2023) - American Mathematician
553. Olga Kennard (1924 - 2023) - British Crystallographer
554. Mary Lee Woods (1924 - 2017) - British Mathematician and Computer Programmer
555. Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924 - 2017) - American Cancer Researcher
556. Ruth Teitelbaum (1924 - 1986) - American Computer Programmer
557. Bette Nesmith Graham (1924 - 1980) - American Inventor of Correction Fluid
558. Evangelina Villegas (1924 - 2017) - Mexican Biochemist
559. Winifred Watkins (1924 - 2003) - British Biochemist
560. Evelyn Berezin (1925 - 2018) - American Computer Engineer
561. Janet Davidson Rowley (1925 - 2013) - American Geneticist
562. Marthe Gautier (1925 - 2022) - French Physician
563. Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015) - Polish Paleobiologist
564. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925 - 1983) - American Chemist and Bioinformatician
565. Mary Lyon (1925 - 2014) - British Geneticist
566. Olga Oleinik (1925 - 2001) - Ukrainian Mathematician
567. Nancy Roman (1925 - 2018) - American Astronomer
568. Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926 - 2012) - German Nuclear Physicist
569. Janine Connes (1926 - ) - French Astronomer
570. Vivienne Cassie Cooper (1926 - 2021) - New Zealand Botanist
571. Marian Diamond (1926 - 2017) - American Neuroscientist
572. Claire Fagin (1926 - 2024) - American Nurse and Nursing Educator
573. Darleane C. Hoffman (1926 -) - American Chemist
574. Mathilde Krim (1926 - 2018) - Italian AIDs researcher
575. Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1927 - 2020) - American Plasma Physicist
576. Jannette Anderson (1927 - 2002) - Scottish Biologist and Educator
577. Martha Chase (1927 - 2003) - American Geneticist
578. Ursula M. Cowgill (1927 - 2015) - American Anthropologist and Biologist
579. Betty Hay (1927 - 2007) - American Developmental Biologist
580. Frances Hugle (1927 - 1968) - American Engineer and Inventor of Tape Automated Bonding
581. Maria Carmela Lico (1927 - 1985) - Italian-Brazilian Physiologist and Behaviour Neuroscientist
582. Anne McLaren (1927 - 2007) - British Developmental Biologist and Geneticist
583. Gertrude Neumark (1927 - 2010) - German-American Physicist
584. Margaret G. Kivelson (1928 - ) - American Planetary Scientist and Space Physicist
585. Vera Rubin (1928 - 2016) - American Astronomer
586. Margeret Rule (1928 - 2015) - British Archaeologist
587. Jean E. Sammet (1928 - 2017) - American Computer Scientist
588. Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928 - 1984) - Italian-American Experimental Nuclear Physicist
589. Dorothea Bennett (1929 - 1990) - American Geneticist and Developmental Biologist
590. Magda Ericson (1929 - ) - French Nuclear Physicist
591. Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929 - 2024) - Canadian-American Mathematician
592. Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929 - 2016) - American Chemist
593. Anneke Levelt Sengers (1929 - 2024) - Dutch Physicist
594. Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929 - 2021) - American Astronomer
595. Carolyne Van Vliet (1929 - 2016) - Dutch Born American Physicist
596. June Almeida (1930 - 2007) - Scottish Virologist, Histologist and Imager
597. Christiane Bonnelle (1930 - 2016) - French Physicist
598. Nina Byers (1930 - 2014) - American Theoretical Physicist
599. Hester A. Davis (1930 - 2014) - American Archaeologist
600. Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930 - ) - French Developmental Biologist
601. Mildred Dresselhaus (1930 - 2017) - American Physicist
602. Daphne Osborne (1930 - 2006) - British Botanist and Plant Physiologist
603. Halszka Osmolska (1930 - 2008) - Polish Palaeontologist
604. Margaret M. Perry (1930 - 2009) English Molecular Geneticist
605. Patsy Sherman (1930 - 2008) - American Chemist
606. Gladys West (1930 - ) American Mathematician
607. Tu Youyou (1930 - ) - Chinese Pharmaceutical Chemist
20th Century (1931-1940)
608. Idelisa Bonnelly (1931 - 2022) - Dominican Marine Biologist
609. Fawzia Fahim (1931 - ) - Egyptian Biochemist
610. Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931 - ) - American Information Scientist
611. Maxine Singer (1931 - 2024) - American Molecular Biologist
612. Elizabeth Warrington (1931 - ) - British Neuropsychologist
613. Monique Adolphe (1932 - 2022) - French Cell Biologist
614. Grace Alele-Williams (1932 - 2022) - Nigerian Mathematician
615. Frances Allen (1932 - 2020) - American Computer Scientist
616. Jan Anderson (1932 - 2015) - New Zealand Biochemist
617. Yvonne Barr (1932 - 2016) - Irish Virologist and Co-Discoverer of EBV
618. Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985) - American Zoologist and Primatologist
619. Caroline Herzenberg (1932 - ) - American Physicist and Science Historian
620. Marcia Neugebauer (1932 - ) - American Geologist and Space Physicist
621. Elsa G. Vilmundardóttir (1932 - 2008) - Icelandic Geologist
622. Ruth Arnon (1933 - ) - Israeli Biochemist
623. Noemie Benczer Koller (1933 - ) - Austrian-Born Nuclear Physicist
624. Patricia Bergquist (1933 - 2009) - New Zealand Zoologist
625. Annie Easley (1933 - 2011) - American Rocket and Computer Scientist
626. Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933 - 2014) - French-American Particle Physicist
627. Tomoko Ohta (1933 -) - Japanese Geneticist
628. Myriam Sarachik (1933 - 2021) - Belgian-American Physicist
629. Etta Zuber Falconer (1933 - 2002) - American Mathematics Lecturer
630. Jane Goodall (1934 - ) - British Primatologist and Anthropologist
631. Patricia Jacobs (1934 - ) - Scottish Geneticist
632. Sylvia Earle (1935 - ) - American Marine Biologist
633. Noreen Murray (1935 - 2011) - British Molecular Geneticist
634. Inge Schmitz Fuerhake (1935 -) - German Physicist
635. Karen Sparck Jones (1935 - 2007) - British Computer Scientist
636. Evelyn Fox Keller (1936 - 2023 ) - American Physicist and Author
637. Helen T. Edwards (1936 - 2016) - American Physicist
638. Rosemary Grant (1936 - ) - British Evolutionary Biologist
639. Daphne Jackson (1936 - 1991) - British Nuclear Physicist
640. Patricia Cladis (1937 - 2017) - Canadian Physicist and Mathematician
641. Alison Jolly (1937 - 2014) - American Primatologist
642. Teresa Maryańska (1937 - 2019) - Polish Palaeontologist
643. Grace Oladunni Taylor (1937 - ) - Nigerian Biochemist
644. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937 - ) - Russian Cosmonaut
645. Lorna Casselton (1938 - 2014) - British Biologist and Mycologist
646. Lynn Conway (1938 - 2024) - American Computer Scientist
647. Nancy M. Dowdy (1938 - ) - American Nuclear Physicist
648. Judy Franz (1938 - ) - American Physicist
649. Margaret Hamilton (1938 - ) - American Computer Scientist and Mathematician
650. Lynn Margulis (1938 - 2011) - American Biologist
651. Bridget Ogilvie (1938 - ) - Australian Parasitologist
652. Margarita Salas (1938 - 2019) - Spanish Biochemist and Molecular Geneticist
653. Sheila Widnall (1938 - ) - American Aerospace Researcher
654. Dana Ulery (1938 - ) - American Computer Scientist
655. Barbara Askins (1939 - ) - American NASA Chemist
656. Mary-Dell Chilton (1939 - ) - American Biologist and Botanist
657. Mary K. Gaillard (1939 - ) - America Particle Physicist
658. Judith Goslin Hall (1939 - ) - American Clinical Geneticist
659. Barbara Liskov (1939 - ) - American Computer Scientist
660. Ada E. Yonath (1939 - ) - Israeli Crystallographer
661. Deborah Ajakaiye (1940 - ) Nigerian Physicist
662. Mina Bissell (1940 - ) - Iranian-American Breast Cancer Researcher
663. Louise Johnson (1940 - 2012) - British Biochemist and Protein Crystallographer
664. Evi Nemeth (1940 - 2013) - American Engineer and Expert in Computer System Administration
665. Anne Warner (1940 - 2012) - British Biologist
666. Lucy Shapiro (1940 - ) - American Developmental Biologist
667. Sau Lan Wu (c.1940 - ) – Chinese-American Physicist20th Century (1941-1950)
668. Carole Jordan (1941 - ) - British Astronomer
669. Darshan Ranganathan (1941 - 2001) - Indian Organic Chemist
670. Jane Richardson (1941 - ) - American Biophysicist
671. Joan A. Steitz (1941 - ) - American Biochemist and Molecular Biologist
672. Beatrice Tinsley (1941 - 1981) - New Zealand Astronomer and Cosmologist
673. Suzanne Cory (1942 - ) - Australian Biologist
674. Dianne Edwards (1942 - ) - Welsh Palaeobotanist
675. Julia Higgins (1942 - ) - British Polymer Scientist
676. Ann Kiessling (1942 - ) - American Reproductive Biologist
677. Meave Leakey (1942 -) - British Palaeoanthropologist
678. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942 - ) - German Developmental Biologist and Geneticist
679. Anita Roberts (1942 - 2006) - American Molecular Biologist
680. Kathleen C. Taylor (1942 - ) – American Chemist
681. Jean Thomas (1942 - ) - Welsh Chemist
682. Elisabeth Vrba (1942 - ) - German-American Palaeontologist
683. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 - ) - Northern Irish Astrophysicist
684. Helen M. Berman (1943 - ) - American Structural Biologist
685. Deborah Charlesworth (1943 - ) - British Evolutionary Biologist
686. Brigid Hogan (1943 - ) – British American Developmental Biologist
687. Nancy Hopkins (1943 - ) - American Molecular Biologist
688. Renata Kallosh (1943 - ) - Russian Theoretical Physicist
689. Lorella M. Jones (1943 - 1995) - Canadian Physicist
690. Evelyn Nelson (1943 - 1987) - Canadian Mathematician
691. Helen Quinn (1943 - ) - Australian Particle Physicist
692. Valerie Thomas (1943 - ) - American Inventor
693. Sandra Moore Faber (1944 - ) - American Astrophysicist
694. Bernadine Healy (1944 - 2011) - American Physician
695. Gail R. Martin (1944 - ) – American Developmental Biologist
696. Margaret W. Rossiter (1944 - ) - American Science Historian
697. Jill Tarter (1944 - ) - American Astronomer
698. Patricia Vickers-Rich (1944 -) - Australian Palaeontologist
699. Roberta Bondar (1945 - ) - Canadian Neurologist
700. Marian Dawkins (1945 - ) - British Biologist
701. Adele Goldberg (1945 - ) - Computer Scientist
702. Judith Howard (1945 - ) - British Biochemist and Crystallographer
703. Gerta Keller (1945 - ) - Swiss Palaeontologist
704. Philippa Marrack (1945 - ) - British Biologist and Immunologist
705. Dusa McDuff (1945 - ) - British Mathematician
706. Eugenia Maria del Pino Veintimilla (1945 - ) - Ecuadorian Developmental Biologist
707. Cheryll Tickle (1945 - ) - British Developmental Biologist
708. Nancy Wexler (1945 - ) - American Geneticist
709. Valerie Beral (1946 - 2022) - Australian Epidemiologist and Cancer Epidemiologist
710. Catherine Brechigac (1946 - ) - French Physicist
711. Anna Curenius Roosevelt (1946 - ) - American Archaeologist
712. Birutė Galdikas (1946 - ) - Lithuanian-Canadian Primatologist, Conservationist and Ethologist
713. Shirley Ann Jackson (1946 - ) - American Physicist
714. Mary-Claire King (1946 - ) - American Geneticist
715. Daniela Rhodes (1946 - )- Italian Molecular Biologist
716. Joan Roughgarden (1946 - ) - American Evolutionary Biologist
717. María Teresa Ruis (1946 - ) Chilean Astronomer
718. Ruth Shady (1946 - ) Peruvian Archaeologist
719. Fiona Stanley (1946 - ) - Australian Epidemiologist and Public Health Worker
720. Shirley Tilghman (1946 - ) - Canadian Molecular Biologist
721. Veronica van Heyningen (1946 - ) - British Geneticist
722. Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946 -) - Ukrainian Astronomer
723. Elizabeth Anionwu (1947 - ) British Nurse
724. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947 - ) - French Virologist
725. Linda B. Buck (1947 - ) - American Biologist
726. Margaret Chan (1947 - ) - Chinese-Canadian Director-General of WHO 2007- 2017
727. Jenny Clack (1947 - 2020) - British English Palaeontologist and Evolutionary Biologist
728. Mary Cleave (1947 - ) - American Environmental Engineer and Astronaut
729. Janet Darbyshire (1947 - ) - British Epidemiologist and Science Administrator
730. Temple Grandin (1947 - ) - American Animal Scientist
731. Gail Hanson (1947 - ) - American Experimental Particle Physicist
732. Jane Lubchenco (1947 - ) - American Environmental Scientist
733. Polly Matzinger (1947 - ) - French Immunologist
734. Barbara A. Schaal (1947 - ) - German Born American Evolutionary Scientist
735. Phyllis Starkey (1947 - ) - British Biomedical Researcher
736. Elizabeth Blackburn (1948 - ) - Australian-American Molecular Biologist
737. Rivka Carmi (1948 - ) - Israeli Paediatrician and Geneticist
738. Pascale Cossart (1948 - ) - French Bacteriologist
739. Barbara Pearse (1948 - ) - British Biologist
740. Karen Wetterhahn (1948 - 1997) - American Chemist
741. Danielle Bunten Berry (1949 - 1998) - American Game Designer and Computer Programmer
742. Fan Chung (1949 - ) - Taiwanese -American Mathematician
743. Heather Couper (1949 - 2020) - British Astronomer
744. Sally Davies (1949 - ) - Chief Medical Officer for England 2010-2019
745. Ann Druyan (1949 - ) - American Author
746. Bonnie J. Dunbar (1949 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
747. Sue Hendrickson (1949 - ) - American Palaeontologist
748. Susan Lindquist (1949 - 2016) - American Molecular Biologist
749. Barbara J. Meyer (1949 - ) - American Geneticist
750. Judith Resnik (1949 - 1986) - American Engineer and NASA Astronaut
751. Janet Thornton (1949 - ) - British Bioinformatician
752. Jean Beggs (1950 - ) - British Geneticist
753. Nitza Margarita Cintrón (1950 - ) - Puerto Rican Chief of Space Medicine at NASA Johnson Space Center
754. Anne Dell (1950 - ) - Australian Biochemist
755. Louise Dolan (1950 - ) - American Mathematical Physicist
756. Elaine Fuchs (1950 - ) - American Cell Biologist
757. Linda Partridge (1950 - ) - British Geneticist
758. Janet Rossant (1950 - ) - English Developmental Biologist
20th-21st Century (1951-Present)
759. Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (1951 - ) - Hungarian Born Swiss Mathematician
760. Susan Blackmore (1951 - ) - British Writer
761. Kay Davies (1951-)- British Geneticist
762. Susan Greenfield (1951-)- British Neurologist
763. Martha P. Haynes (1951 - ) - American Astronomer and Astrophysicist
764. Susan Hockfield (1951 - ) - American Neurobiologist
765. Marcia McNutt (1951 - ) - American Geophysicists
766. Anne Mills (1951 - ) - British Health Economist
767. Chiara Nappi (1951 - ) - Italian Physicist
768. Mazlan Othman (1951 -) Malaysian Astrophysicist
769. Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) -American Physicist and Astronaut
770. Kathyrn D. Sullivan (1951- ) American geologist and Astronaut
771. Frances Ashcroft (1952 - ) - British Geneticist and Physiologist
772. Ann Dowling (1952 - ) - British Mechanical Engineer
773. Anita Harding (1952 - 1995) - Irish-British Neuroscientist
774. Mariann Bienz (1953 - ) - Swiss Molecular Biologist
775. Athene Donald (1953 - ) - British Physicist
776. Georgina Mace (1953 - 2020) - British Conservational Biologist
777. Carolyn Porco (1953 - ) - American Planetary and Imagery Scientist
778. Susan Mary Rees (1953 - ) - British Mathematician
779. Florence Wambugu (1953 - ) - Kenyan Plant Pathologist and Virologist
780. Lesley Jane Yellowlees (1953 - ) - British Chemist
781. Ingrid Daubechies (1954 - ) - Belgian Physicist and Mathematician
782. Joanna Haigh (1954 - ) - British Physicist
783. Christine Holt (1954 - ) - British Developmental Neuroscientist
784. Cynthia Jane Kenyon (1954 - ) - American Molecular Biologist
785. Anne O’Garra (1954 - ) - British Immunologist
786. Adriana Albini (1955 - ) Italian Pathologist
787. Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (1955 -) - American Forensic Scientist
888. Claire M. Fraser (1955 - ) - American Microbiologist
789. Katalin Karikó (1955 - ) Hungarian-American Biochemist
790. Nancy Rothwell (1955 - ) - British Pathologist
791. Maria Abbracchio (1956 - ) - Italian Pharmacologist
792. Frances Arnold (1956 - ) - American Chemical Engineer
793. Gillian Bates (1956 - ) - British Biologist
794. Rosa Beddington (1956 - 2001) - British Developmental Biologist
795. Pamela J. Bjorkman (1956 - ) - American Chemist
796. A. Catrina Coleman (1956 - ) - Scottish Electrical Engineer
797. Melissa Franklin (1956 - ) - Canadian Particle Physicist
798. Mae Jemison (1956 - ) - American Physician and Astronaut
799. Carol V. Robinson (1956 -) - British Chemist
800. Penny Sackett (1956 - ) - American-Australian Astronomer
801. Susan Solomon (1956 - ) - American Atmospheric Chemist
802. Fiona Watt (1956 - ) - British Biologist
803. Janet Hemingway (1957 - ) - British Vector Biologist
804. Doreen Cantrell (1957 - ) - Scottish Immunologist
805. Susana López Charretón (1959 - ) - Mexican Virologist
806. Hannah Monyer (1957 - ) - German Neurobiologist
807. Elizabeth Robertson (1957 - ) - British Developmental Biologist
808. Lynn Rothschild (1957 - ) - American Evolutionary Biologist and Astrobiologist
809. Maria Spillantini (1957 - ) - Italian Molecular Neurologist
810. Manuela Maria Veloso (1957 - ) - Portuguese Computer Scientist
811. Karen Vousden (1957 - ) - British Medical Researcher
812. Sophie Wilson (1957 - ) - British Computer Scientist
813. Gloria Galeano Garcés (1958 - 2016) - Colombian Botanist
814. Susan Helms (1958 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
815. Anne L’ Huillier (1958 - ) French-Swedish Physicist
816. Tiiu Kull (1958 - ) - Estonian Botanist
817. Ann Nelson (1958 - 2019) - American Particle Physicist
818. Ellen Ochoa (1958 - ) - American Engineer and Astronaut
819. Margaret Ogola (1958 - 2011) - Kenyan Paediatrician and Author
820. Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1958 - ) - American Climatologist
821. Fiona Wood (1958 - ) - British-Australian Plastic Surgeon
822. Maria Zuber (1958 - ) - American Planetary Scientist
823. Claudia Alexander (1959 - 2015) - American Geophysicist and Planetary Scientist
824. Anita Borg (1959 - 2003) - American Computer Programmer
825. Andrea Brand (1959 - ) - American Molecular and Developmental Biologist
826. Danese Cooper (1959 - ) - American Computer Scientist and Programmer
827. Mercedes Doretti (1959 - ) - Argentine Forensic Anthropologist
828. Deborah Estrin (1959 - ) - American Computer Scientist
829. Shafi Goldwasser (1959 -) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist
830. Lene Hau (1959 - ) - Danish Physicist
831. Frances Kirwan (1959 - ) - British Mathematician
832. Gitte Moos Knudsen (1959 - ) - Danish Neurobiologist
833. Arati Prabhakar (1959 - ) - American Engineer
834. Joanne Pransky (1959 - 2023) - American Roboticist, ‘Robotic Psychiatrist’
835. Donna Strickland (1959 - ) Canadian Physicist
836. Linda Avey (1960 - ) - American Biologist
837. Catherine Coleman (1960 - ) - American Chemist and Astronaut
838. Beth Levine (1960 - 2020) - American Microbiologist
839. Peggy Whitson (1960 - ) - American Biochemist and Astronaut
840. Elizabeth Simpson (fl. 1960s) - British Biologist and Immunologist
841. Sue Black (1961 - ) - Scottish Forensic Anthropologist
842. Cecilia Bouzat (1961 - ) - Argentine Neuroscientist
843. Lynn Gladden (1961 - ) - British Chemical Engineer
844. Carole Goble (1961 - ) - British Computer Scientist
845. Carol W. Greider (1961 - ) - American Molecular Biologist
846. Kalpana Chawla (1962 - 2003) - Indian Aerospace Engineer
847. Michele Dougherty (1962- ) - British Astrophysicist
848. Fabiola Gianotti (1962 - ) - Italian Particle Physicist
849. Sarah Gilbert (1962 - ) - British Vaccinologist
850. Lisa Randall (1962 - ) - American Theoretical Physicist
851. Ulrike Tillmann (1962 - ) - German Mathematician
852. Safaa Kumari (1963 - ) Syrian Plant Virologist
853. Jane Luu (1963 -) - Vietnamese-American Astronomer
854. Misha Mahowald (1963 - 1996) -American Computational Neurologist
855. May-Britt Moser (1963 - ) Norwegian Neuroscientist
856. Sania Nishtar (1963 - ) Pakistani Physician
857. Fiona Powrie (1963 - ) - British Immunologist
858. Daniela L. Rus (1963 - ) - Romanian Born Roboticist, Pioneer in A.I.
859. Rabia Salihu Sa’id (1963 - ) - Nigerian Atmospheric Physicist
860. Helen Sharman (1963 - ) - British Chemist
861. Jennifer Doudna (1964 - ) - American Biochemist, CRISPR Developer
862. Sonia Alconini (1965 - ) Bolivian Archaeologist
863. Anja Cetti Anderson (1965 - ) - Danish Astrophysicist and Author
864. Mandy Chessell (1965 - ) - British Engineer and Computer Scientist
865. Jeong Eun-kyeong (1965 - ) South Korean Public Health Expert
866. Andrea Ghez (1965 - ) - American Astronomer
867. Edith Heard (1965 - ) - French Geneticist
868. Anousheh Ansari (1966 - ) - Iranian Engineer and Astronaut
869. Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966 - ) - American Chemist
870. Jaime Levy (1966 - ) - American Software Designer
871. Evelyn Miralles (1966 - ) - Venezuelan NASA Computer Engineer
872. Antje Boetius (1967 -) - German Marine Biologist
873. Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (1967 - ) - American Robotics Engineer
874. Claire F. Gmachi (1967 - ) - Austrian Electrical Engineer
875. Victoria Kaspi (1967 -) - Canadian Astrophysicist
876. Hayat Sindi (1967 - ) - Saudi Medical Researcher
877. Maggie Aderin-Pocock (1968 -) - British Space Scientist
878. MiMi Aung (1968 - ) - Burmese-American Engineer
879. Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968 - ) - French Geneticist, Developer of CRISPR
880. Daphne Koller (1968 - ) - Israeli-American Computer Scientist
881. Deborah S. Jin (1968 - ) - American Physicist
882. Hope Jahren (1979 - ) - American Geochemist
883. Maria Fadiman (1969 - ) - American Ethnobotanist
884. Priyamvada Natarajan (1969 - ) - Indian Astrophysicist
885. Dana Angluin (fl. 1970s) - American Computer Scientist
886. Olanike Adeyemo (1970 - ) - Nigerian Veterinarian
887. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (1970 - ) - Ugandan Veterinarian and Conservationist
888. Nicole King (1970 - ) - American Biologist
889. Julie Makani (1970 - ) Tanzanian Biomedical Researcher
890. Eleanor Maguire (1970 - ) - Irish Neuroscientist and Memory Researcher
891. Patricia Simpson (fl. 1970s) - British Developmental Biologist
892. Amanda Barnard (1971 - ) - Theoretical Physicist
893. Sara Seager (1971 - ) - Canadian-American Astronomer and Planetary Scientist
894. Ruth Lawrence (1971 - ) - British-Israeli Mathematician
895. Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara (1971 - ) - Greek Theoretical Physicist
896. Ayanna Howard (1972 - ) - American Roboticist
897. Pamela Gay (1973 - ) - American Astronomer and Writer
898. Anita Goel (1973 - ) - American Physician, Physicist in Nanotechnology
899. Marjolein Kriek (1973 - ) - Dutch Clinical Geneticist
900. Pardis Sabeti (1975 - ) - Iranian-American Computational Biologist
901. Dilek Gürsoy (1976 - ) German Heart Surgeon
902. Lubna Tahtamouni (1976 - ) - Jordanian Developmental Biologist
903. Beth Shapiro (1976 - ) - Molecular Evolutionary Biologist
904. Kathrin Bringmann (1977 - ) - German Mathematician
905. Lisa Kaltenegger (1977 - ) - Austrian Astronomer Focusing on the Search for Life
906. Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) - Iranian Mathematician; 1st Female Winner of the Fields Medal
907. Jessica Meir (1977 - ) - American Marine Biologist and Astronaut
908. Melissa Trainer (1978 -) - American Astrobiologist
909. Christina Koch (1979 - ) - American Electrical Engineer and Astronaut
910. Karen Masters (1979 - ) - British Astrophysicist
911. Asha de Vos (1979 - ) - Sri Lankan Marine Biologist
912. Amanda Gay Fisher (fl. 1980s) - British Cell Biologist
913. Audrey Tang (1981 - ) - Taiwanese Computer Programmer
914. Maryna Viazovska (1984 - ) - Ukrainian Mathematician
915. Niloufar Bayani (1986 - ) - Iranian Conservational Biologist
916. Sirisha Bandla (1987 - ) - Indian - American Aeronautical Engineer
917. Katie Bouman (1989 - ) - American Engineer and Computer Scientist
918. Joy Crisp (fl. 1989) - American Planetary Geologist
919. Tasneem Zehra Husain (fl. 1990s) - Pakistani Theoretical Physicist
920. Nicola Pellow (fl. 1990s) - British Computer Scientist
921. Ellen Spertus (fl. 1990s) - American Computer Scientist
922. Margaret A. Stanley (fl. 1990s - ) - British Virologist and Epithelial Biologist
923. Anastasia Volkova (1991 - ) - Ukrainian Agricultural Scientist
924. Aye Nyein Thu (1995 - ) - Burmese Doctor
925. Afra Karim (1995 - 2012) - Pakistani Computer Prodigy
926. Yasmin Altwaijri (fl. 2000s) - Saudi Epidemiologist
927. Mary Higby Schweitzer (fl. 2000s) - American Palaeontologist
928. Karen P. Steel (fl. 2000s) - British Geneticist
929. Salinee Tavaranan (fl. 2000s) - Thai Mechanical Engineer
930. Mary Voytek (fl. 2000s) - American Astrobiologist
931. Lauren Gardner (fl. 2000s) - American Engineer
932. Yuki Okoda (fl. 2000s) - Japanese Astronomer
933. Jane Rigby (fl. 2000s) - American Palaeontologist
934. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji (fl. 2000s) - Cameroonian Virologist and Ethics Campaigner