Alice Augusta Ball
American chemist - revolutionized the treatment of leprosy
Mabel Hubbard Bell
First woman to run an aviation business, Mabel was muse, wife and business partner of Alexander Graham Bell
Elisabeth Mann Borgese (above, yellow & blue background)
Harriet Brooks (below, green background)
Canada's first female physicist pioneered the field of radioactivity research
Rachel Carson
Pictured here at age 14 armed with lilacs,
Rachel catalyzed the global environmental movement
with her 1962 book,
Silent Spring
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist, chemist and twice Nobel Prize winner, she pioneered research on radioactivity
Dr. Marie Equi
American physician engaged in the political turmoil and social change of the late nineteenth.
Openly gay, she was dedicated to the expansion of women's reproductive choices and leading figure in public health campaigns. Marie organized a medical response to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, received an award from President Theodore Roosevelt for her work and was imprisoned for her anti-war activism
Dorothy Hodgkin
Her discovery of the structure of penicillin made mass production of antibiotics
Frances Kelsey
Canadian-American pharmacologist/physician single-handedly prevented a thalidomide crisis in the U.S.
Inge Lehmann
Danish seismologist and geophsicist who discovered Earth's solid inner core
Hedy Lamarr
(Portrait in progress)
Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology enabled creation of WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems
Ada Lovelace
STEM pioneer - portrait underway
Mary Sherman Morgan
American rocket fuel scientist whose invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne powered the rocket that boosted the first US satellite, Explorer 1
Cecilia Payne
British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist, she discovered what stars are made of... and battled bias and prejudice
Muriel Siebert
Finance industry groundbreaker, first woman to hold a seat on the NYSE
Dr. Jennie Smillie
1st Canadian female surgeon,
performed country's first major
gynecological surgery
Marie Tharp
American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who co-produced the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor
Gladys West
American mathematician. Her dynamic modeling of the shape of the Earth and work on satellite geodesy models helped enable the creation of Global Positioning System