Women - Women's Innovations

Helen M. Schultz

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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

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Jeanette A. Scissum

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June Scobee Rodgers

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Mary Jane Grant Seacole

⚕️ Nurse Practitioner 💼 Entrepreneur ✍️ Author

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Mary Sears

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Alberta Jones Seaton

🔍 Embryology 📚 Educator 🔬 Researcher

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Theresa Secord

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Lynn Segerblom

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Florence Barbara Seibert

🔬 Biochemistry

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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

Elizabeth Ann Seton

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Mary Ann Shadd

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Jesse Shanahan

⚛️ Astrophysics

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Lucy Shapiro

🔬 Developmental Biology

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🔬 Developmental Biology

Founded the new field of developmental biology, using microorganisms to examine fundamental questions in developmental biology
Her work has furthered the understanding of the basis of stem cell function & the generation of biological diversity
Enrolled at Brooklyn college with a double major in Fine Arts & Biology intending to be a medical illustrator; was part of an experimental honors program & allowed to design her own curriculum
Focused on how a cell organizes its 3D structures & launched her own lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1967
Is involved in the development of drugs that will attack both a particular bacteria & its mechanisms of drug resistance to prevent drug-resistant strains from developing
Served as a White House advisor on Bioterrorism
Holds 2 patents

Born: 1940

Country: USA

Education: Brooklyn College AB Fine Arts & Biology 1962; Albert Einstein College of Medicine PhD Molecular Biology 1966

Jane Sharp

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Carla J. Shatz

🔬 Neurobiology

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🔬 Neurobiology

1st woman to receive a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard
1st woman to receive a tenured position in the basic sciences at Stanford Medical School & head Harvard's Dept of Neurobiology
Studied the development of the mammalian visual system
1 of the pioneers who determined some of the basic principles of early brain development
Discovered the spontaneous activity of neurons in utero is critical for the formation of precise & orderly neural connections in the central nervous system
Discovered that waves of spontaneous activity in the retina can alter gene expression & the strength of synaptic connections
2000, she & colleagues identified the MHC Class 1 molecules as important for neuronal plasticity
Holds 2 patents

Born: unknown

Country: USA

Education: Radcliffe College BA & MA Chemistry 1969; University of the College of London MPhil Physiology 1971; Harvard Medical School PhD Neurobiology 1976

Carol Shaw

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Mary Shelley

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Joan Shenandoah

🔍 Environmental Technology

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Hilla Sheriff

⚕️ Medicine

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Audrey Sherman

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Patsy O'Connell Sherman

🔬 Chemistry 💡 Inventor

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🔬 Chemistry 💡 Inventor

Co-inventor of Scotchgard
1st woman inducted into 3-Ms Carlton society (1974)
Took an aptitude test in high school that said she was most suited to be a housewife; insisted she be allowed to take the test given to boys & those results showed dentistry or science as potential career paths
Began her career at 3M & was tasked with developing a rubber that could be used for jet fuel hoses; spilled a sample of fluorochemical rubber on a colleagues she & couldn't get it off; over time noticed the spot didn't get dirty or stained; subsequently developed into Scotchgard
Mid-1980s, developed 3M's technical education department
During the development of Scotchgard in the 1950s she had to wait outside the textile mill used for testing before she was given the results because women weren't allowed inside the mill
Worked at 3M over 40 years
Held 16 patents

Born: 1930

Country: USA

Education: Gustavus Adolphus College BS Chemistry & Mathematics 1952

Mary Lura Sherrill

🔬 Chemistry Educator 🔬 Researcher

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Susan Ellen Shore

🔍 Audiology

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Ariel Shramko

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Kavita Shukla

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Tina M. Shull

💻 Computer Science

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Paden Sickles

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Muriel "Mickie" Faye Siebert

💰 Finance

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💰 Finance

1st woman to own a seat in NYSE (1967)
1st woman to head 1 of NYSE's member firms
1st woman superintendent of banking for NYS
Known as the "1st Woman of finance"
1990, created Siebert Entrepreneurial Philanthropic Plan, it shared 1/2 of her firm's profits from new securities underwriting with charities of the issuers' choices
President of NY Women's Agenda (1998) & helped develop a program advocating Financial Literacy for Women
1987, successfully lobbied for a ladies restroom on the 7th floor of the NYSE
Developed a Personal finance Program that is taught in NY middle & high schools