All Science & Technology

A biologist and geneticist. The scientist who discovered the sex chromosomes.
Category: Science & Technology.

The first African-American woman and the first Native American civil pilot in the US.
Category: Science & Technology, Activism & Feminism.

Businesswoman and engineer, the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX.
Category: Science & Technology, Business & Entrepreneurship.

Scientist, teacher, and the founder of the Chicago Chinese Women’s Club.
Category: Science & Technology, Academy & Education.

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.

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.
Category: Science & Technology.

The first American woman astronaut in space.
Category: Science & Technology, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

A physician, an engineer, and an astronaut who was the first African-American woman to travel in space.
Category: Science & Technology.

A medical pioneer in late 19th century West Coast.
Category: Health, Academy & Education, Science & Technology.

The first Indian-American female astronaut to go to space.
Category: Science & Technology.