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Ida Freund
Ida Freund
The first woman to become a university chemistry lecturer at a time when the subject was almost exclusively the domain of men.
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Jun 12, 2021
Linda Buck
Linda Buck
American Biologist who resolved the mystery of how the sense of smell works, by identifying the molecular circuit that connects an odor…
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Apr 14, 2020
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
British Biochemist who revolutionized the field of X-ray crystallography by using it to study the 3D structure of proteins. She discovered…
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Apr 14, 2020
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer who uncovered the structure of coal, viruses, and most famously the…
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Feb 23, 2021
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
French virologist, received #NobelPrize in Physiology & Medicine in 2008 for discovering #HIV as the cause of #AIDS.
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Jun 26, 2019
Anna Wessel Williams(1863–1954)
Anna Wessel Williams(1863–1954)
An American #doctor, a pioneer in #infectiousdiseases and a public health advocate. She developed an effective treatment for #diphtheria…
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Jun 29, 2019
Biruté Galdikas
Biruté Galdikas
A scientist, conservationist, & educator: Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas is the world’s foremost authority on the orangutans of Indonesian…
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Sep 11, 2019
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton is a pioneering American computer scientist & software engineer who played a key role in writing #NASA software that…
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Nov 4, 2019
Ynés Mexia
Ynés Mexia
Ynés Mexia was a renowned #botanist and an intrepid #explorer who cataloged and identified valuable plant specimens of North and South…
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Jan 17, 2020
Amalie Emmy Noether
Amalie Emmy Noether
A German #mathematician behind the Noether’s Theorem, who framed modern physics and algebra, but was not fully appreciated by the…
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Feb 10, 2020
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard discovered how genes regulate the process of a single egg cell’s development into an entire animal. A question…
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Feb 18, 2020
Dr. Jane Goodall
Dr. Jane Goodall
A leading #primatologist, #ethologist, #anthropologist, a UN Messenger for Peace, & an inspiration for generations, accepted by both…
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Jun 5, 2019
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey
An American #primatologist & #conservationist who changed the course of preservation of the mountain #gorillas.
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Jul 16, 2019
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock
An American cytogeneticist who discovered centromeres, telomeres, and transposons for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology…
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May 13, 2020
June Almeida
June Almeida
June was a Scottish virologist & electron microscopist, and was the first to image the Coronavirus in 1960’s.
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Jun 12, 2020
Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly
The first Black woman in America to earn a PhD in Chemistry whose research led to saving the lives of millions of people from heart…
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Jul 13, 2020
Gerty Cori
Gerty Cori
American biochemist who discovered how the body stores and utilizes energy, and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
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Aug 13, 2020
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
A British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who’s proposal that the stars are primarily made of hydrogen and helium was…
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Sep 10, 2020
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Brilliant Russian mathematician, who was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics in Europe, and the first female Professor of…
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Oct 16, 2020
Flossie Wong-Staal
Flossie Wong-Staal
The first person to clone HIV leading to the development of blood tests & antiviral therapies saving millions of lives!
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Jan 20, 2021
Dr. Eugenie Clark
Dr. Eugenie Clark
Known as The Shark Lady, integral in changing the attitudes towards #sharks, and #women in #ichtyology.
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Jun 17, 2019
Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar
The world’s first neurologist in space, Dr. Roberta Bondar is globally recognized for her pioneering contributions to space medicine…
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Mar 24, 2021
Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp
Marie was an American geologist and oceanic cartographer who made paradigm-shifting discovery by making detailed maps of the ocean floor.
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May 2, 2021
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