1. Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination:
Celebrating Women in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics
March, 2013

2. The National Women’s History Project
Honorees
March, 2013

3. Marilyn Barrett
K-12 STEM Educator & Coordinator of Science
Instruction for Worchester County Public Schools

4. Olga Frances Linares
Anthropologist and Archaeologist, work centers on the
social organization and agrarian practices of the Jola peoples
living in the Casamance region of Southern Senegal

5. Helen Greiner
Mechanical Engineer and Roboticist, co-founder and
former President/Chairman of iRobot Corp

6. Katherine Burr Blodgett
Physicist and Inventor, 1st women research scientist for General Electric
Schenectady, New York Lab

7. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell –
1st female admitted to an all male medical school

8. Flossie Wong Staal
Virologist and Molecular Biologist, her team deciphered the structure
of the HIV virus as the cause of AIDS, continues pioneering work

9. Susan Gerbi
Molecular Cell Biologist, George Eggleston Professor of Biochemistry @
Brown University, her research team devised a method to map the start of
DNA replication at the nucleotide level

10. Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
Pediatrician/Microbiologist, developed 1st effective remedies for
Haemophilus Influenzae, drastically reducing mortality rates

11. Julia Morgan
Architect, 1st woman architect licensed in California

12. Mary G. Ross
Mechanical Engineer, 1st woman engineer at Lockheed’s Missiles Systems
Division (1952) 1st known Native American woman engineer

13. Dian Fossey
Primatologist and Naturalist, studied the gorillas of Rwanda made many
discoveries documented in Gorillas in the Mist (1983)

14. Edith Clarke
Electrical Engineer, 1st woman professor of Electrical
Engineering at the University of Texas @ Austin

15. Rita R. Colwell, PhD
Molecular Microbial Ecologist and Science Administrator, 1st woman Director
of the National Science Foundation, leader in K-12 STEM Education

16. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Computer Scientist/Pioneer in Programming, U.S. Navy Officer

17. Jill Pipher
Mathematician, president of the Association of Women in
Mathematics, and director of he Institute for Computational and
Experimental Research in Mathematics

18. Louise Pearce
Physician and Pathologist, Rockefeller Institute, contributed to cure for
African Sleeping Sickness (1919) and tested the drug in Belgian Congo (1920)

19. Susan Solomon
Atmospheric Chemist, Ellen Swallow Richards Professor
of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science @ MIT

20. Patricia Era Bath, O.D.
Ophthalmologist, Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe an
advancement in laser cataract surgery, 1st AA woman doctor to
receive a patent for a medical purpose

21. GREAT WOMEN RULERS OF SCIENCE

22. Countess of Lovelace
Mathematician, 1st Computer Programmer

23. Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry
1st woman Surgeon in UK
possibly transgendered or intersexed

24. Florence Sabin
1st woman to hold a full professorship @
John Hopkins School of Medicine

25. Annie JUMP Cannon
Contributor , Contemporary Stellar Classifications

26. Inge Lehmann
Seismologist, Discovered the Earth’s Inner Core

27. Marie Curie
1st woman to win Nobel Peace Prizes in multiple
sciences Physics 1903 & Chemistry 1911

28. Gerty Cori
1st U.S. woman to win a
Nobel Peace Prize in Science 1947

29. Irène Joliot Curie
jointly with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for the discovery of artificial radioactivity

30. Rachel Fuller Brown
Along w/ assistant Elizabeth L. Hazen developed the 1st
effective antibiotic against fungal disease in humans

31. Margaret Mead
One of the greatest contributors to
Cultural Anthropology and sexual mores in western culture

32. Barbara McClintock
Cytogeneticist, awarded 1983 Nobel Laureate in
Physiology/Medicine

33. Henrietta Lacks –
The Immortal Life of HeLa

34. Sally Kristen Ride
In 1983 became 1st American woman and youngest at 32 to enter space

35. Maria Goeppert Mayer
Theoretical Physicist, 1963 Nobel laureate for proposing the
nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus

36. Rita Levi Montalcini
Italian Neurologist along w/ Stanley Cohen received the 1986
Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for the discovery of
nerve growth factor (NGF)

37. DorothyMary Hodgkin
British Chemist, Credited with the development of protein
crystallography, confirmation of the structures of penicillin and
vitamin B12, 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

38. Gertrude Elion
Biochemist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for the
development of new drugs that lead to AIDS drug AZT

39. Rosalind E. Franklin
British Biophysicist, X-Ray crystallographer, Contributor to the understanding
of fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite

40. Dame Jane M. Goodall
British Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist,
chimpanzee expert and UN Messenger of Peace

41. Hypatia of Alexandria
Greek Neoplatonist Philosopher, Astronomer & Mathematician