Myelinating cells of the central nervous system
A neurobiologist, a visionary, and a leader of modern biology in India, who established the connections between olfaction and…
Gertrude was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the field of rational drug design, for which she was awarded…
The first Black woman in America to earn a PhD in Chemistry whose research led to saving the lives of millions of people from…
Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist, scientific disseminator and icon of free thought.
A structural geologist who was one of the first Indian woman to do research in Antartica and helped establish India’s permanent…
Ynés Mexia was a renowned #botanist and an intrepid #explorer who cataloged and identified valuable plant specimens of North and South…
A French radiochemist, a battlefield radiologist, feminist and pacifist. Irene was awarded — jointly with her husband — the…
An extra-ordinary Italian 18th-century physicist: the first woman in Europe to be appointed professorship in a scientific field.