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first collection of poetry, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was widely read in America and England.
by Anne Bradstreet
Arts - PoetEntomology illustrations
by Maria Sibylla Merian
Biology - Entomologist, Scientific Illustrator, Art DrawingCalculated the return of Halley's Comet
by Nicole-Reine Lepaute
AstronomyDiscovery of the first of eight comets credited to Herschel
by Caroline Lucretia Herschel
AstronomyInvented new method to spin sturdy cotton sewing thread.
by Hannah Wilkinson Slater
Textile Engineering - Cotton Sewing ThreadWrote "A Compendious System of Astronomy," a textbook for young girls.
by Margaret (nee Haverkam) Bryan
Astronomy - AstrophysicsPatent for a new technique of weaving straw with silk and thread to make hats.
by Mary Dixon Kies
Millinery - Straw Hats1847 ran the Brandywine Iron Works & Nail factory
by Rebecca Lukens
BusinessEstablished the first racially integrated school in the United States.
by Prudence Crandall
Education - Racial IntegrationSurvivor of the Battle of the Alamo
by Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson
Historical FigureDiscovery of comet C/1847 T1, known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor
by Maria Mitchell
AstronomyHer book "Physical Geography" was the first English textbook on Geography
by Mary Fairfax Somerville
GeographyPioneer in the visual presentation of information and statistical graphics
by Florence Nightingale
StatisticsGraduate in the first class of Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Lifelong advocate of women doctors
by Ann Preston
Medical EducationFounded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children
by Elizabeth Blackwell
Women's Health; Medical EducationFounded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children
by Emily "Milly" Blackwell
Women's Health; Medical EducationConsidered the "Mother of modern Nursing" though her professionalism of the career
by Florence Nightingale
Nursing; Public Health1st female surgeon in the US Army during the Civil War
by Mary Edwards Walker
SurgerySecond African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States.
by Rebecca Cole
PhysicianFirst female recipient of a Civil Engineering DegreeCivil Engineering
by Elizabeth Bragg Cumming
Engineering - CivilHerbal-alcoholic women's tonic for menstrual and menopausal problems,
by Lydia Estes Pinkham
Pharmacology; Women's HealthSolar System Needlepoint Quilt
by Ellen Harding Baker
Astronomy - EducationCo-founder of the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital & Dispensary (later The Memorial Hospital for Women & Children).
by Susan Maria Smith McKinney Steward
Women's Health, HomeopathyFounded American Red Cross
by Clarissa (Clara) Harlowe Barton
Public HealthAuthor of Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
by Sarah Thocmentony Winnemucca Hopkins
Activism - Native American (Paiute) CulturePublished A Book of Medical Discourses, dedicated to nurses and mother
by Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Women's Health; Medical EducationDough Kneader and Rolling Pin
by Judy Woodford Reed
Food Sciences - ToolsFirst female doctor in the Dominican Republic
by Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser
PhysicianOutspoken Black journalist and leader in the African-American Women's Club Movement
by Josephine Silone Yates
Activism - Black WomenConsumer’s League of the City of New York (CLCNY),
by Josephine Shaw Lowell
MoneyRolling Pin
by Catharine Deiner
Food Sciences - AppliancesHeater design for cars and railroads
by Margaret A. Wilcox
RailroadsAuthor of the first book of rules for women's basketball.
by Clara Gregory Baer
Physical EducationFirst African American woman licensed to practice medicine in Georgia
by Eliza Ann Grier
Women's HealthHair brush for African American women
by Lyda D. Newman
Health & BeautyInvention of the modern 1-handed syringe
by Letticia Mumford Geer
Medical EquipmentNational Consumers League
by Florence Kelley
MoneyStreet sweeper designed to automate the process of cleaning city streets.
by Florence Parpart
Technology - AppliancesPioneering UK photojournalists captured change
by Christina Livingston Broom
Arts - PhotographyEstablished Taylor Lane Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the first Black hospital in Columbia, SC
by Matilda Arabella Evans
Obgyn; Women's Health; Public Healthfounded Palmer Memorial Institute of Sedalia, NC an African-American school with a holistic approach to education
by Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Education - Black SchoolingDiscovered XY sex-determination system
by Nettie Maria Stevens
Biology - GeneticsCo-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN)
by Mary Eliza Mahoney
NursingDesigned early airplane
by Emma Lilian Todd
AviationLeavitt's law: the period-luminosity relationship for Cepheid variables
by Henrietta Swan Leavitt
AstronomyDevelopment of cosmetics & hair care products for African-American women
by Madam C.J. Walker
Health SciencesIntroduction of genetically uniform mice as a research tool.
by Jeanne Lee Crews
GeneticsIntroduction of genetically uniform mice as a research tool.
by Maud Caroline Slye
GeneticsFirst American woman awarded a pilot's license
by Harriet Quimby
AviationFirst Workers' Compensation laws in Illinois to protect against lead poisoning and other workplace hazards.
by Alice Hamilton
Public HealthEstablished the first independently funded hospital on a reservation in Walthill, Nebraska.
by Susan La Flesche Picotte
Public HealthPosited that cancer was an inherited trait.
by Maud Caroline Slye
Oncology Research; Women's HealthBlack pediatrician in Washington, D.C.
by Marie Bernadette Lucas
PediatricsDevelopment of the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
by Alice Augusta Ball
PharmacologyNew York's first female taxi driver
by Wilma K. Russey
Automotive - Taxi DriverNoether's first and second theorems are fundamental in mathematical physics
by Amalie Emmy Noether
Abstract AlgebraPopularized idea of Women Driving unaccompanied
by Emily Post
AutomotiveSalary negotiations for Fair Pay for Women
by Mary Pickford
Finance - Equal Pay For WomenElectric windshield wiper
by Charlotte Bridgewood
AutomotiveIdea to mark roads with lanes.
by June or Jean, please check McCarroll
Automotive - SafetyResearch in the disease brucellosis and its relationship to fresh, unpasteurized milk.
by Alice Catherine Evans
Food Sciences - Milk PasterizationShoe that delivered medicine through the sole.
by Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin
Medical EquipmentMedical illustrator, specializing in maxillofacial & plastic surgery
by Inez Michon Demonet O'Brien
Medical IllustratorCampaigned for the 19th Amendment, which gave U.S. women the right to vote
by Carrie Chapman Catt
Social Justice - Voting Rightstraveled to France to earn her pilot's license
by Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman
AviationEstablished her own drugstore in Lexington, Kentucky.
by Harriet Beecher Stowe Marble
PharmacyRailroad - Architectural designs for the Santa Fe Railroad
by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
ArchitectureCo-developed an antitoxin and vaccine for scarlet fever.
by Gladys Rowena Henry Dick
PharmacologyProfessional publication on original research in marine biology.
by Roger Arliner Young
Marine Biology; ZoologyFounder of ‘Kentucky committee for Mothers & Babies’, which later became Frontier Nursing Service (FNS).
by Mary Carson Breckinridge
Public Health; Women's HealthGroundbreaking conclusion that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium
by Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin
Astronomy - AstrophysicsAdvocate for early cancer screening & taking family histories to assess risk for cancer.
by May Edward Chinn
Women's HealthCo-Developer of the Whooping Cough vaccine.
by Leila Alice Daughtry Denmark
Pediatrics; PharmacologyStarted a rural mobile health service in South Carolina.
by Hilla Sheriff
Public HealthStarted a rural mobile health service in South Carolina.
by Love Rosa Hirschmann Gantt
Public HealthEstablishment of the Mathematics Department at the University of the District of Columbia.
by Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Mathematics EducationFounder of Aspiranto Health Home Hospital
by Virginia Margaret Alexander
Public Health; HolisticResearch in gonadogenesis in ducks
by Lilian Leonora Burwell Lewis
EndocrinologyFirst female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
by Amelia Mary Earhart
AviationWings to beauty: Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics
by Jacqueline Cochran
CosmeticsPhotograph of "Migrant Mother"
by Dorothea Lange
PhotographyIdentified Cystic Fibrosis and developed a diagnostic test.
by Dorothy Hansine Andersen
Medical DiagnosisNobel Prize for Literature "The Good Earth"
by Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck
LiteratureResearch resulted in new Food Drug & Cosmetics Act
by Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey
PharmacologyToll House Cookie Recipe
by Ruth Jones Graves Wakefield
Food Preparation1942 Made Canada a powerhouse of aircraft construction
by "Elizabeth ""Elsie"" Muriel Gregory" MacGill
Aviation - ProductionResearch in the diagnosis and treatment of meningitis in children.
by Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
Pediatrics; MicrobiologyResearch on relationship of sex homones and growth.
by Ruth Smith Lloyd
EndocrinologyStudy on cognitive development of children with the condition spastic paralysis
by Carol Blanche Cotton Bowie
PsychologyAssessment on the ways human activity leads to major environmental setbacks
by Marguerite Williams
Geology - Environmental ImpactFirst African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol
by Willa Beatrice Brown Chappell
Aviation - Civil Air PatrolFirst African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot license
by Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg
AviationWartime head of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
by Jacqueline Cochran
Airplane PilotBlood Testing of scientists working on Manhattan Project.
by Floy Agnes "Aggie" Lee
HematologyFounding director of Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II
by Lucile Petry Leone
Nursing; Public HealthEarly in vitro fertilization in the lab.
by Miriam Friedman Menkin
Obgyn; Women's HealthProtected women in Concentration Camp by providing abortions.
by Gisella Perl
Gynecologist; Women's HealthDesegregation of the military's nursing corps during World War II
by Mabel Eloise Doyle Keaton Staupers
NursingCalifornia first black deputy attorney general
by Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray
Social Justice, PoliticsElectric self-feeding apparatus for amputees
by Bessie Virginia Blount Griffin
Medical EquipmentAuthored the book “Congenital Malformations of the Heart”, considered to be the foundational text of pediatric cardiology.
by Helen Brooke Taussig
Cardiology, Pediatric; PediatricsENIAC - Ballistics Software
by Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum
Computer Science - EniacENIAC - Ballistics Software
by Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer
Computer Science - EniacENIAC - Co-lead programmer
by Betty Jean Jennings Bartik
Computer Science - EniacENIAC - Differential Analyzer, which was used to calculate ballistics equations
by Frances Bilas Spence
Computer ScienceENIAC - Differential Analyzer, which was used to calculate ballistics equations
by Kathleen "Kay" Rita Mauchly Antonelli McNulty
Computer ScienceENIAC - introduced breakpoints into computer debugging. Also SORT/MERGE
by Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton
Computer Science - EniacENIAC- Subroutine (function) use in computer programming
by Betty Jean Jennings Bartik
Computer Science - EniacENIAC- Subroutine (function) use in computer programming
by Kathleen "Kay" Rita Mauchly Antonelli McNulty
Computer Science - EniacDevelopment of a chemical method for quantitative determination of incipient spoilage of fruits & vegetables
by Rubye Mayette Prigmore Torrey
Food ChemistryProduction of dextran as plasma substitute used by medical personal in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
by Allene Rosalind Jeanes
HematologyDevelopment of the Bulgarian BCG vaccine against tuberculosis
by Srebra Rodopska
PharmacologyReusable, impermeable diaper cover, leading to disposable diapers
by Marion O'Brien Donovan
Health SciencesApgar Test to evaluate the health status of newborns.
by Virginia Apgar
Pediatrics; AnesthesiologyDeveloped the first safe and effective antifungal antibiotic.
by Elizabeth Lee Hazen
Microbiology; BiochemistryDeveloped the first safe and effective antifungal antibiotic.
by Rachel Fuller Brown
Microbiology; BiochemistryDisposable kidney basin for use in hospital environments
by Bessie Virginia Blount Griffin
Medical EquipmentResearch into melanin and its relationship to skin cancer
by Jewel Plummer Cobb
Oncology Research; PharmacologyResearch on the distribution and differences in blood types between Black and white Americans.
by Ruth Ella Moore
HematologyStudy of hypertension in animals
by Betty Elaine Collette
Veterinary MedicineUse of human tissue culture rather than lab mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells.
by Jane Cooke Wright
OncologyDevelopment of the "party plan" system of marketing
by Brownie Wise
MarketingPioneering programs in child psychotherapy using play & artwork
by Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence
Pediatric Psychiatrycreated Caedmon Audio, Audible books
by Marianne Roney Mantell
EntrepreneurPhoto 51, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix
by Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Chemistry - X-Ray CrystallographyResearch identified the cause of retrolental fibroplasia, a condition that caused blindness in premature babies.
by Leona Ruth Hurwitz Zacharias
PediatricsFirst woman to break the sound barrier
by Jacqueline Cochran
AviationAfrican American Surgeon in Tennessee
by Dorothy Lavinia Brown
Surgery; Abortion Rights; Women's HealthConducted the famous "doll study" used in the Supreme Court Case Brown v Board of Education
by Mamie Phipps Clark
Psychology - Child PsychologyExperimental work in flavor chemistry, testing the effects of various feeds on the taste of meat.
by Gladys Williams Royal
BiochemistryUse of ultraviolet spectophotometry to allow more precise tracking of chemical reactions
by Mary Elliott Hill
Analytic ChemistryLent her name to the Finkel-Biskis-Jinkins virus after she was able to isolate the murine osteogenic sarcoma virus.
by Miriam Dvorah (Dorothy) Posner Finkel
RadiobiologyDesign of the Wu Experiment which proved parity was not conserved
by Chien-Shiung Wu
Nuclear PhysicsIntroduction of first dip & read medical tests for urin
by Helen Murray Free
Medical Diagnostics;Creation of the 21 Nursing Problems Theory, a significant transformation in nursing education and practice.
by Faye Glenn Abdellah
Nursing EducationInvention of the liquid fuel Hydyne, used to power the Jupiter-C rocket
by Mary Sherman Morgan
Aerospace - ChemistryInvention of wrinkle-resistant cotton.
by Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito
Textile Engineering - Wrinkle-Resistant CottonPioneer in the use of nuclear magnetic resonance to study enzyme reactions
by Mildred Cohn
Physical BiochemistryTest for the diagnosis of Sickle Cell disease in newborns.
by Angella Dorothea Ferguson
Pediatrics, DiagnosticsBiophysicist and research chemist at American Cyanamid
by Esther Arvilla H. Hopkins
Chemistry; Patent LawDesigned and fabricated the 1st prosthetic mitral valve.
by Nina Helen Starr Braunwald
Surgery Cardiac; Medical DevicesVaccine development for ducks and other avians.
by Jessie Isabelle Price
Biology - Veterinary MicrobiologyDevelopment of xanthan gum, derived from Xanthomonas campestris bacteria
by Allene Rosalind Jeanes
Food ProductionLaunched campaign to ban Thalidomide in United States
by Helen Brooke Taussig
PharmacologyFirst woman astronaut - A cosmonaut in the Russian Vostok programme.
by Valentina Tereshkova
Aerospace - AstronautSensitivity of gut microorganisms to antibiotics
by Ruth Ella Moore
Bacteriology, MicrobiologyNobel Prize, Pioneer in x-ray crystallography & structures of molecules
by Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Biology - Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, X-Ray CrystallographyDeveloped & popularized the use of methadone as treatment for heroin addiction.
by Marie Nyswander
Treatment, AddictionDevelopment of Mueller-Hinton agar, pioneer in the study of bacterial antibiotic resistance.
by Jane Hinton
BacteriologyDiscovery of cryoprecipitation to treat hemophilia.
by Judith Ethel Graham Pool
Hematology; PharmacologyPublication of a technical paper on "Medical Graphology,” how a person's handwriting reflected their state of health.
by Bessie Virginia Blount Griffin
Medical DiagnosticsServed as a US Congresswoman for 24 years representing Hawai’i.
by Patsy Takemoto Mink
Us CongressDeveloped treatment for children with Sickle Cell Disease
by Yvette Fayá Francis-McBarnette
Pediatrics; PharmacologyFirst identification of the corona viruses using immune electron microscopy (IEM)
by June Dalziel Almeida
Biology - VirologyImmunology research, with specialty in tropical & infectious diseases.
by Anna Louise Cherrie Epps
ImmunologyInvention of a gigacycle range signal generator using semiconductor materials in magnetic and electric fields
by Betsy Ancker-Johnson
Plasma PhysicsDesigned 1st home pregnancy test
by Margaret M. "Meg" Crane
Diagnostics; Women's HealthDiscovered the first radio pulsars
by Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astronomy - AstrophysicsPainting 'Homage to Martin Luther King' hangs in the headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
by Florence Elizabeth Riefle Bahr
PaintingPioneer in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
by Gloria Long Anderson
Physical Organic Chemistry"Medical Handbook for the Layman"
by Carolyn Luetta Cannon-Alfred
Public HealthCrew member on the Tektite II missions.
by Alina Szmant
Biology - Marine BiologyEarly advocate for vermicomposting
by Mary Arlene Appelhof
Agriculture - CompostingFounding member of Committee to End Sterilization Abuse in Puerto Rico
by Helen Rodriguez-Trias
Women's HealthResearch in cold adapted microbes for use by NASA.
by Jody W. Deming
Biology - Marine Biology, OceanographerDevelopment of first aromatase inhibitor 4-OHA used in treatment of breast cancer.
by Angela Hartley Brodie
Pharmacology; Women's HealthFirst female Air Safety Investigator hired by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
by Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk
Aviation - FaaFirst researcher to clone HIV and complete a genetic mapping of the virus
by Flossie Wong-Staal
Biology - Microbiology, VirologyLead role in the ethical and regulatory debates on recombinant DNA techniques
by Maxine Frank Singer
Medical EthicsProcess to intensify underexposed photo negatives revealing details in images from deep space
by Barbara S. Askins
Medical Technology, Chemical PhotograpyIntroduction of the field of Community Ophthalmology
by Patricia Era Bath
Public Health; OphthalmologyNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.
by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Medical DiagnosticsSportsBra
by Hinda Schreiber Miller
Health SciencesSportsBra
by Lisa Z. Lindahl
Health SciencesSportsBra
by Polly Palmer Smith
Health SciencesAmerican Women's Himalayan Expedition to summit Annapurna
by Arlene Blum
MountaineeringGreat Wall of Los Angeles is one of the largest known communal mural project in the world.
by Judith "Judy" Francisca Baca
Muralism And Public ArtPioneered DNA sequencing and worked out the nucleotide sequence of the first complete gene
by Nina Vsevolod Federoff
Biology - BiotechnologyPublished study on "Filters for Women in Science"
by Jewel Plummer Cobb
Female Employment In Stem Fields.Inventor of the Illusion Transmitter, a 3-D Optical Imaging Device
by Valerie LaVerne Thomas
Aerospace - OpticsResearch into genetic and molecular processes that cause identical bacterial cells to split
by Lucy Shapiro
Biology - Developmental BiologyDeep Sea Engineering and Submersibles
by Sylvia Alice Reade Earle
Biology - Marine Biology Deep Sea EngineeringEffects of space flight on astronauts with sickle cell anemia
by Irene Deihart Long
Medicineestablished AIDS Medical Foundation
by Mathilde Galland Danon Krim
Public HealthNobel Prize for development of maize cytogenetics.
by Barbara McClintock
Biology - CytogeneticsCrop Productivity of the African groundnut in Togo and Senegal
by Carolyn Branch Brooks
Agriculture - Crop ProductivityFirst female dean of an engineering school in the USA
by Eleanor K. Baum
Educator - Electrical EngineeringIdentified a new genus of corals - Rhombopsammia
by Joan Murrell Owens
Biology - Marine BiologyImplemented the first regional biomass plant to produces energy from wood chips.
by Margrett (Gretta) L. Boley
ForestryCellular engineering in Sickle Cell Disease
by Gilda A. Barabino
BiomedicalInvention of the laser phaco probe to easily remove cataracts.
by Patricia Era Bath
Ophthalmology; Medical DeviceMathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, incorporated into GPS (Global Positioning System)
by Gladys Mae Brown West
Space GeodesyNobel Prize for discovery of the nerve growth factor (NGF)
by Rita Levi-Montalcini
Biology - NeurobiologyFounder of BioTechnical Communications to create educational materials on health topics for the African-American Community.
by Mary Styles Harris
Public HealthFundamental chemistry and biochemistry of drugs, with particular focus on vanadium.
by Debbie Catharina Crans
Organic ChemistryImproved disposible diaper with pocket for wipes
by Jamie Lee Curtis
Health SciencesCo-inventor of improved CPR doll
by Diane B. Croteau
Technology - Medical DeviceDaubechies wavelets are a family of compactly supported orthonormal wavelets widely used in signal processing and data analysis.
by Ingrid Daubechies
Digital Signal ProcessingDiscovered BRCA1 & BRCA2 are genetic markers for breast & ovarian cancer.
by Mary-Claire King
Women's Health; Medical Diagnostics; GeneticsAppointed director of the new Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
by Vivian Winona Pinn
Women's HealthBreakthrough in isolating blood stem cells
by Ann Tsukamoto
Medical ResearchRNA Research on ribozyme structure and function
by Jennifer Anne Doudna
BiochemistryResearch on molecular mechanisms of gastric cancer biology
by Juanita L. Merchant
GastroenterologySurgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994.
by Minnie Joycelyn Elders
Public HealthCombines modern medical practices with Native American traditional healing
by Lori Arviso Alvord
HolisticResearch in polymer chemistries critical for biomedical applications
by Valerie V. Sheares Ashby
Polymer ChemistryDevelopment of the compound cilastatin sodium, an inhibitor of renal dehydropeptidase.
by Jeannette Elizabeth Brown
Organic ChemistryFirst female to pilot & command a Space Shuttle
by Eileen Marie Collins
Aerospace - AstronautResearch in yeast genomics
by Margaret (Maggie) Werner-Washburne
Biology - Molecular BiologyFirst woman of Indian origin on US space flight
by Kalpana Chawla
Aerospace - AstronautNOAA Cartographer of the Oceans, improved process for nautical charting.
by Evelyn Juanita Fields
CartographyBook 'After the death of a child'
by Ann K. Finkbeiner
Journalism - Science WritingSustainable Seas Expeditions at US National Marine Sanctuary
by Sylvia Alice Reade Earle
Biology - Marine BiologyDeveloped the Randall-Sundrum Model in Physics, proposing a warped-geometry higher-dimensional universe.
by Lisa Randall
Particle PhysicsDiscovery of the Children of Llullaillaco, mummies in the high Andes of Argentina
by Maria Constanza Ceruti
Archaeology - High AltitudeBioengineering to develop new technologies to provide health care to vulnerable populations.
by Rebecca Rae Richards-Kortum
Medical Equipment; Medical DiagnosticsDevelopment of new biomimetic approaches for the synthesis of ordered mineral films
by Joanna Aizenberg
Chemical BiologyProgrammable antisiphon shunt system to treat hydrocephalus.
by Alexa Irene Canady
Neurosurgery; PediatricsPublished Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History.
by Harmony Hammond
SculptureResearch in the use of biological micro-electromechanical systems to support cells outside the human body
by Sangeeta N. Bhatia
Biological Engineering, NanotechnologyRole of neuronal activity in maturation of brain circuits
by Carla J. Shatz
Biology - NeurobiologyScreening of desert plants and fungi for ingredients to use in cancer treatment drugs.
by Linda Celinda Meade-Tollin
Pharmacology; BiochemistryWater purification process for use in low-income communities and in times of natural disaster.
by Norma Arcelia Alcantar
Chemical EngineeringCo-inventor of remote control locator
by Kelli Dunn
Inventor; Makeup ArtistCo-inventor of remote control locator
by Vanessa Dunn
Inventor; Makeup ArtistFounder of the Data Privacy Lab concerned with data protection of the individual
by Latanya Arvette Sweeney
Computer Science - Data PrivacyBeautyBlender make-up application sponge
by Rea Ann Silva
CosmeticsDevelopment of nanomaterials used in state-of-the-art dental composites
by Sumita Basu Mitra
Chemical Nanotechnology; Polymer ChemistryInvented test to diagnose invasive amebiasis.
by Maria del Socorro Flores Gonzalez
Medical DiagnosticsResearch into mechanisms of germ cell formation.
by Cassandra G. Extavour
Biology - Evolutionary GeneticsCo-Author of book "Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development"
by Beatrix Ann McCleary Hamburg
Psychiatry (Adolescent); PediatricsCofounder of Syntience, for machine learning and artificial intelligence research
by Monica Anderson (AI, Swedish-American)
Computer Science - Artificial IntelligenceNobel Prize for Research of Olfactory Systems
by Linda Brown Buck
Biology - Physiology, MicrobiologyDiscovery of a B5 receptor advancing the understanding of Herpes simplex virus and the cells it attacks.
by Almyra Oveta Fuller
Biology - VirologyFounding investigator of the CDC-funded New Vaccine Surveillance Network.
by Kathryn M. Edwards
Public Health; PharmacologyHarnessing biological motors to engineer systems for nanoscale transport and assembly.
by Anita Goel
Biophysics; NanotechnologyDevelopment of thermochemical fuel production and fuel cells
by Sossina M. Haile
Materials ScienceFounder of the Green Science Policy Institute, to bring scientific research results to decision makers in government and industry
by Arlene Blum
Biophysical ChemistryAvalon Village is the prototype for distressed and neglected communities.
by Shamayim "Mama Shu" Harris
Activism - Urban RenewalEthnogenetic Layers as a computational tool to identify differential expressions of health disparities.
by Fatima Linda Collier Jackson
Biology - BiogeneticsManagement of first Knowledge Management program at Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
by Patricia L. Eng
Information ScienceBiological fluid mechanics involved in the movement of jellyfish.
by Kakani Katija Katija Young
Marine Biology; Fluid MechanicsLead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit Cobell v. Salazar.
by Elouise Pepion Cobell, Yellow Bird Woman
Activism - Native American BlackfootNobel Prize for discovery of telomeres
by Carolyn Widney Greider
Biology - Molecular BiologyNobel Prize for discovery of telomeres
by Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
Biology - Molecular BiologyPioneer in the multidisciplinary field of Biogeophysics
by Estella Atekwana
GeophysicsSurgeon General of the United States
by Regina Marcia Benjamin
Public HealthSynthesis of Heterocyclic amine-based inhibitors of Hepititis C.
by Dawn N. Ward
Synthetic Organic ChemistryDevelop and disseminate innovative physics education programs.
by Tatiana L. Erukhimova
Physics EducationDirector of Extavour, a national research collaborative to develop and share tools and techniques
by Cassandra G. Extavour
Biology - Research ToolsInnovative treatment to address tinnitus, the hissing sound of silence
by Susan Ellen Shore
AudiologyResearch in tissue engineering for cell regeneration
by Kristi S. Anseth
Biology - Biological EngineeringRescue Travois
by Alexis Lewis
Medical DevicesStudy of Chemical Oceanography
by Ashanti Montarius Johnson
OceanographyDeveloped "Chemistry for Kids" workshops as a volunteer to enhance the education of minority students & entice them into careers in chemistry
by Allene Johnson
Chemistry EducationDevelopment of a method using laser-activated nanoparticles as a potential cancer treatment.
by Hadiyah-Nicole Green
Medical PhysicsPrincipal of the 100 Year Starship project funded by DARPA
by Mae Carol Jemison
Aerospace - EngineeringResearch to find a natural way of getting waste polyester and nylon to quickly decompose.
by Beth Rattner
ConservationChair of the Federal Reserve
by Janet Louise Yellen
EconomicsChild Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2013
by Barbara A. Mikulski
Politics - Social JusticeDevelopment of wearable, conformable medical devices to detect cancer & administer drugs.
by Canan Dagdeviren
Medical DeviceResearch on blazars, supermassive black holes, to understand particle acceleration.
by Jedidah C. Isler
AstrophysicsDefined the Pasterski-Strominger-Zhiboedov Triangle for electromagnetic memory.
by Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Quantum MechanicsDevelopment of an AI-based system capable of predicting the likelihood of breast cancer up to five years in advance.
by Regina Barzilay
Deep Learning; Medical DiagnosisDevelopment of the first female-specific antidepressant.
by Briana Kaying Chen
Women's HealthInventor of the CPR Wrap
by Felicia Jackson
Medical Deviceslead for Mars helicopter technology at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
by MeMe (also MiMi) Aung
Aerospace - EngineeringMechanism for the maturation of a non-coding RNA
by Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier
Microbiology, BiochemistryMechanism for the maturation of a non-coding RNA
by Jeanne Lee Crews
Microbiology, BiochemistryNasaclip, a medical device for nosebleeds
by Elizabeth "Liz" P. Clayborne
Medical DeviceResearch using audible sound to study astrophysical data
by Wanda Diaz-Merced
Astronomy SonificationWhistleblower of Flint Water Crisis, which involved elevated levels of lead in the drinking water.
by Mona (now known as Mona Hanna) Hanna-Attisha
Public HealthDevelopment of sustainable production of fuels, chemicals & materials
by Emily Ann Carter
Physical ChemistryFounder of Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative in 2016 (eWEAR_X)
by Zhenan Bao
Materials ScienceDeveloper of the LightSound device for the visually impaired.
by Allyson Bieryla
Astronomy - SonificationFounding director of Harnessing Plants Initiative, a carbon dioxide removal approach to fight climate change.
by Joanne Chory
BotanyBlack Girls Mathgic curriculum
by Brittany A. Sanders Rhodes
Education - MathematicsNobel Prize in Physics for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification
by Donna Theo Strickland
OpticsResearch on questions regarding how to re-frame who is observer in physics",
by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Particle PhysicsGrew a 7'6" inch canoe named Myconoe out of mushrooms
by Katy E. Ayers
Agriculture - MycologyDevelopment of electric reactors which can match or exceed reactors using non-renewable energy sources
by Daniela Eugenia Blanco Jimenez
Chemical EngineeringDiagnostic aid using smartphone for Kawasaki disease.
by Ellen Xu
Medical DiagnosticsDiscovery of halicin, the first new antibiotic compound for 30 years,
by Regina Barzilay
Deep Learning; PharmacologyInventor of Medi Teddy to hide IV equipment from children.
by Ella Kathleen Casano
Medical DeviceLockheed Martin Executive
by Stephanie Hill
ManagementNobel Prize in Chemistry for dCRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
by Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier
Biochemistry; GeneticsNobel Prize in Chemistry for dCRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
by Jennifer Anne Doudna
Biochemistry; GeneticsPOSH Pillow for mastectomy patients
by Charlotte Abrams
Medical Device; Women's HealthDevelopment of highly recyclable plastics, which break down into harmless products.
by Linda Jean Broadbelt
Chemical EngineeringFirst female commercial spaceship pilot of the Crew Dragon mission Inspiration4.
by Sian Hayley (Leo) Proctor
Aerospace - AstronautBowe founded LINGO, an education technology company
by Aisha Bowe
Education - Computer CodingDiscovered possible new planet in M51 galaxy.
by Nia Imara
Astronomy - AstrophysicsDiscovered possible new planet in M51 galaxy.
by Rosanne DiStefano
Astronomy - AstrophysicsDiscovery of the gene GDF15, connected to hyperemesis gravidarum (extreme nausea in pregnancy)
by Marlena Fejzo
Women's HealthNobel Prize in Chemistry for development of Bioorthogonal Chemistry and Click Chemistry
by Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi
Bioorthogonal Chemistry, Click ChemistryWorked to develop the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
by Kizzmekia Shanta Corbett
PharmacologyCo-founder of Cornerstone Interactive Studios
by Lisette Titre-Montgomery
Arts - Computer AnimationDesigned Sylvee, a device to monitor COPD symtoms
by Maria Alexandra Artunduaga
Medical Equipment