Women - Women's Innovations

Ann T. Nelms

⚛️ Nuclear Physics

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Marcia Neugebauer

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Lyda D. Newman

💡 Inventor 🤖 Hairdresser

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Julie Newmar

🔍 Actress 💡 Inventor

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🔍 Actress 💡 Inventor

Played the 1st Catwoman in the TV series Batman
Holds 2 patents for the invention of pantyhose & a new bra
Was sued by Jim Belushi for $4 million dollars after he accused her of tearing down his fence & egging his house; she countered by stating his noisiness forced her to buy expensive air traffic controller's earmuffs
Was a prima ballerina with the Los angeles Opera beginning at age 15
Was engaged to author Louis L'Amour
Has Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited neurological disease effecting 1 in 2,500 people that is characterized by progressive loss of muscle tissue & touch sensation across various parts of the body
Is an avid gardener & advocate for LGBT rights
Has numerous acting credits in movies, TV, & stage productions

Born: 1933

Country: USA

Education: UCLA no degree

Margaret Morse Nice

🔍 Ethologist 🔍 Ornithologist

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Roberta J. Nichols

⚛️ Engineering

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Evelyn Carmon Nicol

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Florence Nightingale

⚕️ Nursing

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⚕️ Nursing

Known as "The Lady With the Lamp"because she would visit the sick & wounded at Scutari during the Crimean War at night holding a lantern
Trained her nurses in sanitizing, dropping the mortality rate at Scutari from 40% to 2%
Contracted a disease (likely brucellosis from drinking contaminated milk) during the Crimean War in 1855; there was no cure & it left her in pain for the remainder of her life
1860, established the 1st secular training school for nurses
Her social reforms included: improving health care for all sections of British society, advocating for better hunger relief in India, helping abolish prostitution laws that were harsh for women, & expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce
Was a pioneer in statistics & presented her analysis in graphical form
Was a founder of the modern nursing profession
All new nurses take the Nightingale Pledge

Born: 1820

Country: Italy

Education: home schooled by father & self taught; 4 months of nurse training at Kaiserwerth on the Rhine

Victoria Chibuogu Nneji

💻 Computer Science

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Mary Layfield Nock

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Amalie Emmy Noether

📊 Mathematics

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Mary Nolan

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Emily M. Norton

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Elizabeth E. Norton

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Virginia Tower Norwood

⚛️ Aerospace Engineering ⚛️ Physics 💡 Inventor

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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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Mary Adelaide Nutting

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Marie Nyswander

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Marie Nywander

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Robyn O'Brien

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Adriana C. Ocampo Uria

🔍 Planetary Geology

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🔍 Planetary Geology

born in Columbia, raised in Argentina before family emigrated to the US in 1970 when she was 14
volunteered at JPL during summers in high school, was employed part-time during college & hired full-time after graduation
worked as a senior research scientist at JPL & left after 32 years
wanted to be an astronaut from a young age, making spacecraft out of pots & pans, dressing her dolls as astronauts & her dog Taurus was her co-pilot
became a US citizen in 1980
has an asteroid named after her
has worked at NASA since 2005

Born: 1955

Country: Columbia

Education: Pasadena City college AD in Science with an emphasis on Geology 1977; California State University Los Angeles BS Geology 1983; California State University Northridge MS Planetary Geology 1997; Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands PhD Planetary Science 2012