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Ellen B. A. Mitcheson

⚕️ Health 🔍 Beauty

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Ellen B. A. Mitcheson

⚕️ Health 🔍 Beauty

In 1873, Ellen B. A. Mitcheson of Philadelphia submitted this patent for an improvement on mustache spoons.

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Sumita Basu Mitra

🔬 Chemistry

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Sumita Basu Mitra

🔬 Chemistry

Holds 112 patents for dental materials & adhesives including Filtek composites sold by 3M
2010, co-owner of Mitra Chemical Consulting, LLC
1st to use nanomaterial-based dental fillers
Born & raised in India; came to US for graduate studies & specialized in polymer chemistry
Joined 3M in 1978, retired 2010, & opened her own consulting company

Born: 1949

Country: India

Education: Presidency College-Kolkata BS Chemistry 1969; University Kolkata (Calcutta) MS Organic Chemistry 1972; University of Michigan PhD Organic Chemistry/Polymer 1977; Case Western Reserve University Postdoc Fellow, Polymer Chemistry

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Subhra Mohapatra

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Subhra Mohapatra

advanced drug delivery of therapeutics for cancer, traumatic brain injury & COVID19; developed "tumor-on-a-disc" technology; holds 18 patents

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Svetlana Mojsov

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Svetlana Mojsov

The Ozempic revolution is rooted in the work of Svetlana Mojsov, yet she’s been edged out of the story. https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/27/weight-loss-obesity-glp1-svetlana-mojsov/. see also https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03927-1

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Marion Crenshell Monet

⚛️ Chemical Engineering

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Marion Crenshell Monet

⚛️ Chemical Engineering

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Raye Montague

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Raye Montague

US Navy engineer-the 1st person to design a naval ship (USS Oliver Hazard Perry) with computer design tools

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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori

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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori

Born: 1870

Country: Italy

Education: Educator

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Mary Jane Montgomery

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Mary Jane Montgomery

💡 Inventor

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Mary A. Moore

💡 Inventor

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Mary A. Moore

💡 Inventor

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Tanya Moore

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Tanya Moore

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Ann Moore

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Ann Moore

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Ruth Ella Moore

🔍 Bacteriology 🔬 Microbiology 🎨 fashion designer

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Ruth Ella Moore

🔍 Bacteriology 🔬 Microbiology 🎨 fashion designer

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Born: 1903

Country: USA

Education: Ohio State University BS 1926, MS 1927, PhD Bacteriology 1933

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Willie Hobbs Moore

⚛️ Mechanical Engineering ⚛️ Physics

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Willie Hobbs Moore

⚛️ Mechanical Engineering ⚛️ Physics

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Born: 1934

Country: USA

Education: University of Michigan BS 1958, MS 1961 both in electrical engineering, PhD Physics 1972

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Virginia Tower Moorewood

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Virginia Tower Moorewood

Was known as "The Mother of Landsat" for designing the Multispectral Scanner that was 1st used on Landsat One
Her father gave her her 1st slide rule when she was 9
While working at the US Army Signal Corps, she designed a radar reflector for weather balloons
Worked for Hughes Aircraft Company in LA for 36 years; worked on antenna design, communication links, optics, & Landsat scanners
Some of her projects are still classified
Held 3 patents; 1 is still classified

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JoAnn Hardin Morgan

⚛️ Aerospace Engineer

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JoAnn Hardin Morgan

⚛️ Aerospace Engineer

Worked at NASA 40 years, retiring in 2003

Born: 1940

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Mary Sherman Morgan

🔍 Rocket Fuel Scientist 🔍 Shemist

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Mary Sherman Morgan

🔍 Rocket Fuel Scientist 🔍 Shemist

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Born: 1921

Country: USA

Education: Minot State University, chemistry major, studies interrupted by WWII

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Isabel Morgan

🔍 Polio Vaccine

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Isabel Morgan

🔍 Polio Vaccine

see https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/polio-bio-morgan/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_12225418&utm_Newsletter=American_Experience

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Krysta Morlan

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Krysta Morlan

Diagnosed with a mild form of cerebral palsy at age 3

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Molly Morse

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Molly Morse

founder of Mango Materials, a company trying to manufacture biopolymers using bacteria to replace plastics

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May-Britt Moser

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May-Britt Moser

Norwegian psychologist & neuroscientist; discovered a type of cell that is important for determining position close to the hippocampus; 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovery concerning the neural systems that underlie spatial representation in the mammalian brain (grid cells)

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Bessie Louise Moses

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Bessie Louise Moses

Born: 1893

Country: USA

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Annie Maria H. Moss

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Annie Maria H. Moss

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Lucretia Mott

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Lucretia Mott

a Quaker minister, abolitionist and women's rights advocate,

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Melba Roy Mouton

📊 Mathematics

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Melba Roy Mouton

📊 Mathematics

worked at NASA, tracked Echo satellites, helped produce orbital element timetables.

Born: 1929

Country: USA

Education: Howard University BA & MS Mathematics 1950

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Shirley 'Cha Cha' Muldowney

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Shirley 'Cha Cha' Muldowney

first woman licensed to drive a Top Fuel dragster in 1973. After that, she became the first person, male or female, to win three Top Fuel titles. see https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-in-automotive-history-shirley-muldowney?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fda29172ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-fda29172ed-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=fda29172ed&mc_eid=8e9014a039

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Sharon Mullen

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Sharon Mullen

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Nadia Murad

✊ Human Rights Activist

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Nadia Murad

✊ Human Rights Activist

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Born: 1993

Country: Iraq

Education: unknown

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Eliza Murfey

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Eliza Murfey

patented more than a dozen devices used to lubricate railroad-car axles and reduce the number of derailments

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Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

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Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

will appear on US coin quarter https://thehill.com/homenews/4119326-these-five-american-women-will-appear-on-new-quarters-in-2024/?utm_term=64c5297497bb13fc6d0d4e262f74a278&utm_campaign=TheWeekInPatriarchy&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=weekinpatriarchy_email

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Mary Breed Hawley Myers

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Mary Breed Hawley Myers

Mary Myers (1849-1932) was a Boston-born professional balloonist (best known as Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut) and female aviation pioneer. She was married to aeronautical engineer Carl Edgar Myers, and together they devoted a great deal of their energies and expertise to the design and use of passenger balloons.

Born: 1849

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Isabel Briggs Myers

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Isabel Briggs Myers

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Rachel Nafis

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Rachel Nafis

ex-nurse in San Diego; has taken over the yards of 8 of her neighbors & grows flowers for her Psalter Farm Flowers; helps them pay their water bills & plants low-water usage plants; beautifies her neighborhood & helps her elderly neighbors-giving them social contact

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Gauri Nanda

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Gauri Nanda

Born: 1980

Country: USA

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Ritu Narayan

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Ritu Narayan

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Sheila Nash-Stevenson

⚛️ Physicist ⚛️ Integration Engineer

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Sheila Nash-Stevenson

⚛️ Physicist ⚛️ Integration Engineer

Country: USA

Education: Alabama A&M University BS Electronic & Electrical Engineering 1981, MS Physics 1984, PhD Physics 1994

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Shannon Nation

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Shannon Nation

2001 received patent for Pregnancy Beach Chair, that allows pregnant woman to lay on their stomach.

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Gail K. Naughton

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Gail K. Naughton

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Melba Nead

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Melba Nead

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Sarah Neal

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Sarah Neal

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name unknown Negro Fiend

🔍 Black Revolt

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name unknown Negro Fiend

🔍 Black Revolt

What’s the first woman-led slave revolt you uncovered? A woman led a revolt in what’s now Queens [in New York City]. It was in the city of Newtown, which is [now] Elmhurst. She led a revolt and she was captured. She was burned at the stake and the men who were involved in the revolt were hanged. And I would love to tell you her name, but it’s not preserved. She was referred to as the “Negro Fiend,” so that’s what I call her. see https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-led-slave-revolts

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