A biologist and geneticist. The scientist who discovered the sex chromosomes.
Category: Science & Technology.
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Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926
The first African-American woman and the first Native American civil pilot in the US.
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Gwynne Shotwell, 1963
Businesswoman and engineer, the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX.
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Chi Che Wang, 1894-1979
Scientist, teacher, and the founder of the Chicago Chinese Women’s Club.
Category: Science & Technology, Academy & Education. -
Hedy Lamarr, 1914-2000
Film actress during Hollywood’s “Golden Age”, inventor, and the co-intervenor of the technology that will be the basis of modern days wireless communication systems.
Category: Theater & Cinema, Science & Technology. -
Dorothy Vaughan, 1910-2008
A mathematician and ‘human computer’, among the first African-Americans who worked and progressed at NASA, and the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
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Sally Ride, 1951-2012
The first American woman astronaut in space.
Category: Science & Technology, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education. -
Mae Carol Jemison, 1956
A physician, an engineer, and an astronaut who was the first African-American woman to travel in space.
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Charlotte Blake Brown, 1846-1904
A medical pioneer in late 19th century West Coast.
Category: Health, Academy & Education, Science & Technology. -
Kalpana Chawla, 1962-2003
The first Indian-American female astronaut to go to space.
Category: Science & Technology.