Meet mathematician Emmy Noether, mother of the most beautiful theorem in the world
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Environmental Physiology
McMaster University
Meet Maria Mitchell, the first American to discover a comet
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Meet Katsuko Saruhashi, a resilient geochemist who detected nuclear fallout in the Pacific
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Meet Hypatia, the ancient mathematician who helped preserve seminal texts
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There was so much more to Rachel Carson beyond 'Silent Spring'
Read now →Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University
Meet Mary Anning, a fossil hunter who changed the way we think about the history of life on Earth
Read now →The ichthyosaur she found helped prove extinction
Botany
University of Florida
Meet Mary Golda Ross, one of the first Native Americans in engineering
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Meet Ynes Mexia, late-blooming botanist whose adventures rivaled Darwin's
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Meet Helen Rodríguez-Trías, pediatrician-turned-healthcare activist
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Meet Jane Marcet, whose books made science accessible
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Meet Katherine Johnson, the computer who helped send men to the moon
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Ecology
Wake Forest University
5 facts about Frances Hamerstrom, wildlife biologist, hunter, and savior of the prairie chicken
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Meet Vera Rubin, the stargazer who predicted dark matter
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Six facts about Gertrude Elion, a legend in drug discovery
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Meet the barrier-breaking physicist hunting gravity with lasers
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5 facts about Marie Curie, chemist, physicist, and Nobel legend
Read now →She was the first woman to win one – much less two – Nobel Prizes
Neuroscience
McGill University
The prolific life of Wang Zhenyi, autodidact, astronomer, and poet
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5 facts about Hedy Lamarr, star, inventor, wartime code maker
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5 facts about Marjorie Lee Browne, African American math prodigy and pioneer
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5 facts about Rosalind Franklin, DNA pioneer
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5 facts about Jean Bartik, expert programmer of the world's first computer
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Five facts about Mae Jemison, doctor, dancer, and the first woman of color in space
Read now →Ana Gorelova, University of Pittsburgh
Five facts about Mary Putnam Jacobi, medical pioneer and suffragette
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Five facts about Linda Buck, olfactory pioneer
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3 incredible stories from the life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
Read now →The “Queen of Carbon” didn’t earn her title by playing by the rules
