Women In Stem
21 entries in the Women In Stem compendium.
Donna StricklandCanadian optical physicist and Nobel laureate in pulsed lasers.Dorothea KlumpkeFirst woman to earn a doctorate in science at the Sorbonne.Elizabeth BlackburnCo-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes chromosome ends.Elizabeth KennySelf-trained nurse who revolutionized polio treatment with muscle rehabilitation.Ellen Swallow RichardsPioneer in sanitary engineering and founder of home economics.Esther LederbergAmerican microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics.Florence R. SabinFirst woman full professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.Frances ArnoldAmerican chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.Gertrude B. ElionAmerican biochemist who pioneered rational drug design.Gerty CoriBiochemist who discovered the catalytic conversion of glycogen.Charlotte ScottBritish mathematician who advanced women's education and American mathematics.Chieko AsakawaBlind computer scientist who created the leading web-to-speech system.Cicely WilliamsJamaican physician who identified kwashiorkor and championed breastfeeding.Claire VoisinFrench mathematician who disproved the generalized Hodge conjecture.Daina TaimiņaLatvian mathematician who crocheted hyperbolic planes.Doris SchattschneiderMathematician known for tessellations and M. C. Escher.Edith Anne StoneyIrish physicist, first woman medical physicist, WWI x-ray pioneer.Euphemia HaynesFirst African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics.Fei-Fei LiChinese-born American computer scientist who established ImageNet.Gertrude Mary CoxAmerican statistician who founded a statistics department and co-wrote a seminal text.Gloria Ford GilmerMathematician and ethnomathematics advocate.
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