Women In Science
18 entries in the Women In Science compendium.
Ada YonathIsraeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate who mapped the ribosome.Annie S. D. MaunderIrish astronomer who revealed sunspot motion and co-created the butterfly diagram.Biruté GaldikasThird of Leakey's Angels; leading authority on orangutans.Carol W. GreiderAmerican molecular biologist who discovered telomerase.Carolyn BertozziAmerican chemist who pioneered bioorthogonal chemistry and won the Nobel Prize.Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinAstronomer who revealed the universe's elemental composition.Christiane Nüsslein-VolhardGerman developmental biologist and Nobel laureate in medicine.Alice HamiltonPioneer in industrial toxicology and occupational health.Andrea M. GhezAstrophysicist who co-discovered the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole.Dian FosseyAmerican primatologist who studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda.Dobrodeia of KievByzantine empress and author of the first known medical treatise by a woman.Donna StricklandCanadian optical physicist and Nobel laureate in chirped pulse amplification.Dorothea KlumpkeFirst woman to earn a doctorate in science at the Sorbonne.Elizabeth BlackburnCo-discoverer of telomerase and Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine.Elizabeth RonaHungarian nuclear chemist who advanced polonium preparation and isotope separation.Ellen Swallow RichardsPioneer in sanitary engineering and founder of home economics.Esther LederbergAmerican microbiologist who discovered lambda phage and the F factor.Eunice Newton FooteFirst scientist to identify the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide.
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