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- Jone Johnson Lewis
- Joy Adamson (Jan. 20, 1910-Jan. 3, 1980) Joy Adamson was a noted conservationist and author who lived in Kenya in the 1950s. After her husband, a game warden, shot and killed a lioness, Adamson rescued one of the orphaned cubs.
- Maria Agnesi (May 16, 1718-Jan. 9, 1799) Maria Agnesi wrote the first mathematics book by a woman that still survives and was a pioneer in the field of calculus.
- Agnodice (4th century BCE) Agnodice (sometimes known as Agnodike) was a physician and gynecologist practicing in Athens. Legend has it that she had to dress as a man because it was illegal for women to practice medicine.
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (June 9, 1836-Dec. 17, 1917) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to successfully complete the medical qualifying exams in Great Britain and the first woman physician in Great Britain.
- Ada Lovelace, Mathematician. Dec. 10, 1815-Nov. 27, 1852. Lovelace is regarded as the first computer programmer — long before modern computers were invented.
- Marie Curie, Physicist and Chemist. Nov. 7, 1867-July 4, 1934. Chief among Curie’s many achievements include discovering radioactivity and inventing a mobile X-ray unit that was employed during World War I. With her husband, Pierre, Curie also discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium — and developed techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes.
- Janaki Ammal, Botanist. Nov. 4, 1897-Feb. 7, 1984. As India’s first female plant scientist, Ammal developed several hybrid species still grown today. She also advocated for protecting the biodiversity of India.
- Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist. May 31, 1912-Feb. 16, 1997. Wu was the first scientist to confirm — and later refine — Enrico Fermi’s theory of radioactive beta decay.
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Here's our alphabetical list of the most popular female scientists on the Famous Scientists website. Mary Anning 1799 – 1847. Ancient animals, fossils, and paleontology: discovered the first complete specimen of a plesiosaur; deduced the diets of dinosaurs. Elizabeth Blackwell 1821 – 1910.
Sarah Zielinski. March 24, 2009. Feedloader (Clickability) Though underrepresented in some fields, female scientists are no longer rare. That wasn’t the case for a very long time. Usually when...
Nov 29, 2016 · Blog Post, Updates. Over the last 2 weeks 500 Women Scientists has grown from a small email chain to an international group of more than 10,000 women from 90 countries (and still growing). When we set up the website to share the pledge, we selected striking photos that symbolized our pledge and the scientific community.
Mar 8, 2023 · From well-known legends like Marie Curie to scientists like Alice Ball (whose premature death cut her career short), there are countless women who have contributed to science. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, and mathematics are just some of the fields where these women have made an impact.
Aug 8, 2017 · Rosalind Franklin. English chemist Rosalind Franklin was a pioneer in the use of X-ray diffraction, taking the picture of the “B” form of DNA on a machine she herself refined, that was used by Francis Crick and James Watson (without her permission) to identify the structure of DNA.
