Women - Women's Innovations

Dorothea Lange

📷 Photography

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Judith Leyster

🎨 Art 🤖 Painting

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Maya Lin

🔍 Architecture

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"Elizabeth ""Elsie"" Muriel Gregory" MacGill

⚛️ Aeronautical Engineering 🤖 Aircraft Design

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Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips

🎨 Game designer ✍️ journalist

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Vivian Maier

🎨 Art - Photograhy

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Claire McCardell

🎨 Women's Fashion Designer

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Ruth Ella Moore

🔍 Bacteriology 🔬 Microbiology 🎨 fashion designer

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Sylvia Pedler

🎨 Fashion Designer

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Antoinette Perry

🔍 Theater

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Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn

⚛️ Particle Physics 📚 Educator

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⚛️ Particle Physics 📚 Educator

Is a leading research scientist in the field of particle physics, a traditionally male field
Her major contribution is the Peccei-Quinn theory which implies a corresponding symmetry of nature (AXION as a possible source of dark matter)
Contributed to the search for a unified theory for the 3 types of particle interactions (strong, electromagnetic, & weak)
Chair of the Board of School Education that produced "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" that was the basis for the Next Generation Science Standards adopted by 30 States & the District of Columbia
Grew up in Australia; came to the US to attend Stanford University for a PhD (obtained in 1967) at a time when less than 2% of physicists were female
Did her postdoc work in Germany
She showed how quarks can be used to predict certain aspects of hadrons, now known as quark-hadron duality
Helped design the chart of Fundamental Particles & Interactions that often appear in classrooms next to charts of the Periodic Table

Born: 1943

Country: Australia

Education: University of Melbourne-transferred to Stanford; Stanford University BA Physics 1963 MS Physics 1964 PhD Theoretical Physics 1967

Lisa Randall

⚛️ Theoretical Particle Physics 🔍 Cosmology

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Fern Naomi Renville

🎨 Arts 🔍 Snow Sculpting

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Nashlie H. Sephus

🤖 Artificial intelligence 🔍 Technology Evangelist

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🤖 Artificial intelligence 🔍 Technology Evangelist

Specializes in machine learning & algorithmic bias identification
Is a self-described technology evangelist ( a person who builds a critical mass of support for a given technology & then establishes it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects) at Amazon Web Services
Cofounder & CEO of Bean Path, a nonprofit startup developing Jackson Tech District, a planned community & business incubator in Jackson, Mississippi, her hometown
Was introduced to computers when she attended a 2 week sleep away engineering camp for girls
Holds 2 patents

Born: unknown

Country: USA

Education: Mississippi State University BS; Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering MS 2010 & PhD 2014 both in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Polly Palmer Smith

💡 Inventor 🎨 Costume Designer

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Marie Tharp

🔍 Geology 🎨 Oceanographic cartography

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🔍 Geology 🎨 Oceanographic cartography

1950s, collaborated with Bruce Heezen to produce the 1st scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor; 1977, they published the 1st complete world map of ocean floors
Their work helped prove the theory of plate tectonics & continental drift
She established the rift valley & mid-ocean ridge went all around the world for 40,000 miles
She did her research on shore, mapping the echo soundings collected by ships point to point because women were not allowed on research ships until the 1960s because they were considered bad luck
During WWII they worked with photographic data to locate downed military aircraft
Her father was a soil surveyor for the US Dept of Agriculture & the family moved often; he retired to a farm in Ohio in 1931 & by that time she had attended 17 different schools in Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, & Indiana; She graduated high school in Ohio
She graduated from Ohio State University with BAs in English & Music with 4 minors; she joked she changed majors every semester
Heezen would collect bathymetric data aboard a research ship, send the data to her, & she created maps from his data
Was allowed to join her 1st data-collecting expedition in 1968
It took her 1 year to convince Heezen of the existence of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; he was given full credit for the discovery in 1956; she didn't receive recognition for her participation or contributions until more than 20 years later