Women - Women's Innovations

Agnes Pockels

🔬 Chemistry

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Jean Armour Polly

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Judith Ethel Graham Pool

⚛️ Physics Medicine

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Olivia Poole

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Emilie Porter

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Ethel H. Porter

🔍 Agriculture

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Emily Post

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Mary Florence Potts

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Diane Pozefsky

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

⚛️ Physical Cosmology

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Ann Preston

⚕️ Medicine

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⚕️ Medicine

1st female dean of a medical school in the US (Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1866)
Campaigned for her students to be admitted to lectures at Philadelphia Hospital & Pennsylvania Hospital to get the best educational opportunities available
Wrote petitions & lectures for the Clarkson Anti-slavery Society
1849, published a book of children's rhymes, "Cousin Anne's Stories"
Was in the 1st class of the Female (later Women's) Medical College of Pennsylvania & graduated in 1851 at the age of 38
1861, opened a women's hospital where students could gain clinical experience
1863, opened a school of nursing

Born: 1813

Country: USA

Education: 1847-1849 apprentice to Dr. Nathaniel Moseley; 1851 Female's (later Women's) Medical College of Pennsylvania MD

Virginia Prettyman

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Jessie Isabelle Price

🔬 Veterinary microbiology

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🔬 Veterinary microbiology

1950s, isolated & reproduced the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming; developed vaccines for it & other avian diseases
Raised by a single-mother during difficult financial times
Was the only African-American in her classes; there were only 2 other African-Americans in her entire school
Wanted to be a doctor but couldn't afford medical school
Had to periodically take breaks from her education in order to work & save money for additional classes; condinued to work throughout school to support herself
Worked at the Cornell Duck Research Lab 1959-1977
1966, was awarded an NSF travel grant so she could present her findings at the International Congress for Microbiology in Moscow
1977, moved to USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, WIto study environmental contaminants & diseases in wildlife, especially water fowl
Was a dog-lover & breeder; had a prize winning Corgi in the 1960s
Two of her vaccines are still commercially used in the US & Canada

Born: 1930

Country: USA

Education: Cornell University BS Microbiology 1953. MS Veterinary Bacteriology Pathology & Parasitology 1958 PhD Microbiology 1959

Amy Lucia Prieto

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Pearl Primus

🔍 Modern African-American dance

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Sian Hayley (Leo) Proctor

🔍 Geology 🔬 Planetary Science

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Joan Beauchamp Proctor

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Tatiana Proskuriakova

🔍 Archaeology

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Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro

🔬 Chemistry 🔍 Nutritionist 💰 Home Economics

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Mary Abigail (known as Kawena) Pukui

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Jean Purdy

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Queen Lili’uokalani

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Lynnae C. Quick

🔬 Planetary Science ⚛️ Planetary Geophysics

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🔬 Planetary Science ⚛️ Planetary Geophysics

Specializes in planetary magnetism & volcanology
Studies Venus, Europa, & Enceladus (a moon of Saturn)
1st African-American staff scientist at the Smithsonian Institute's Center for Earth & Planetary Studies
2019, began working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center studying ocean worlds in the solar system & beyond; expanded her studies to include Ceres
2020, was the lead author on a NASA study analyzing 53 terrestrial exoplanets of a similar size to Earth; mathematically modelled their geologic activity & determined they could potentially sustain extraterrestrial life

Born: 1984

Country: USA

Education: North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University BS Physics 2005; Catholic University of America MS Physics Astrophysics Concentration; Johns Hopkins University MA Earth & Planetary Science 2011 & PhD Planetary Science 2013

Harriet Quimby

🔍 Aviation ✍️ Journalism

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Roxanne Quimby

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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