| Contents Notes |
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), astronomer -- Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911), chemist, ecologist -- Ida Hyde (1857-1945), physiologist -- Florence Bascom (1862-1945), geologist -- Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), astronomer -- Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), industrial engineer -- Anna Pell Wheeler (1883-1966), mathematician -- Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939), educational psychologist -- Olive C. Hazlett (1890-1974), mathematician -- Margaret Mead (1901-1978), cultural anthropologist, author -- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), geneticist -- Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992), mathematician -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), nuclear physicist -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964), marine biologist, author -- Rita Levi-Montalcini (b. 1909), biologist -- Chien-Shiung Wu (b. 1912), nuclear physicist -- Gertrude B. Elion (b. 1918), pharmacologist -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (b. 1921), research nuclear physicist -- Jewel Plummer Cobb (b. 1924), biologist -- Dian Fossey (1932-1985), primatologist. Reatha Clark King (b. 1938), chemist, administrator -- Shirley A. Jackson (b. 1946), theoretical physicist -- Lydia Villa-Komaroff (b. 1947), molecular biologist -- Edna Lee Paisano (b. 1948), statistician -- Constance Tom Noguchi (b. 1948), physical biochemist -- Judith Resnik (1949-1986), electrical engineer, astronaut. |
