Notable Female Scientists

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

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A-G

• Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, English physician
• Blackwell, Elizabeth, American physician
• Blackwell, Emily, American physician
• Cannon, Annie Jump, American astronomer
• Carr, Marjorie Harris, conservationist
• Cavell, Edith, English nurse
• Chodorow, Nancy, American psychologist
• Cole, Rebecca, African-American physician
• Curie, Marie Sklodowska, chemist and physicist
• Elion, Gertrude Belle, American pharmacologist
• Fossey, Dian, primatologist
• Franklin, Rosalind, scientist
• Freud, Anna, British psychoanalyst
• Germain, Sophie, French mathematician
• Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn, American consulting engineer, household efficiency expert
• Goodall, Jane, English ethologist

H-L

• Hamilton, Alice, American toxicologist, physician, and educator
• Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer
• Hopper, Grace, American computer scientist and admiral
• Horney, Karen, American psychiatrist
• Hypatia, Alexandrian Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician
• Jemison, Mae C., American physician, astronaut
• Jex-Blake, Sophia, English physician
• Kenny, Elizabeth, Australian nurse
• Klein, Melanie, British psychoanalyst
• Kovalevsky, Sonya , Russian mathematician
• Ladd-Franklin, Christine, American scientist
• Leakey, Mary Douglas, British archaeologist and paleontologist
• Levi-Montalcini, Rita, Italian-American neurologist
• Maathai, Wangari, Kenyan conservationist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Mayer, Maria Goeppert, physicist
• McClintock, Barbara, American geneticist
• Mead, Margaret, American anthropologist
• Meitner, Lise, Austrian-Swedish physicist and mathematician
• Mitchell, Maria, American astronomer and educator
• Montessori, Maria , Italian educator and physician.
• Morton, Rosalie Slaughter, American surgeon

N-Y

• Niebla, Elvia, American environmental scientist
• Nightingale, Florence, English nurse
• Ochoa, Ellen, American engineer and astronaut
• Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, American horticulturist
• Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow, American chemist, educator, home economics
• Ride, Sally K., American astrophysicist and astronaut
• Rosch, Eleanor, American psychologist
• Semple, Ellen Churchill, American geographer
• Slye, Maud, American pathologist
• Stopes, Marie Carmichael, English paleobotanist and eugenicist
• Walker, Mary Edwards, American surgeon and feminist
• Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman, American medical physicist

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