Throughout history, there have been many women chemists who have made significant contribution to the field. The list includes many familiar and great female chemists such as Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Irène Joliot-Curie, Dorothy Hodgkin, Stephanie Kwolek.The women chemists featured in this list are from United States, United Kingdom, Canada & Australia and many more countries.
Marie Curie07 November 1867, French, Polish
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Rosalind Franklin25 July 1920, British
Chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie12 September 1897, French
Chemist
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910, British
Biochemist
Stephanie Kwolek31 July 1923, American
Chemist
Gertrude B. Elion23 January 1918, American
Biochemist, Pharmacologist
Ada Yonath22 June 1939, Israeli
Scientist
Retta12 April 1970, American
Stand-up Comedian
Tu Youyou30 December 1930, Chinese
chemist, pharmacologist, inventor, university
Helen Sharman30 May 1963, British
Chemist
Catherine Coleman14 December 1960, American
Chemist, Air force officer, Astronaut, Engineer
Clara Immerwahr21 June 1870
Chemist, Feminist
Ellen Swallow Richards03 December 1842, American
Chemist, University teacher, Economist
Shannon Lucid14 January 1943, American
Astronaut, Chemist
Susan Solomon19 January 1956, American
chemist
Johanna Budwig30 September 1908, German
Chemist, Biochemist, Inventor, Physician
Ruth R. Benerito12 January 1916, American
Chemist
Ida Noddack25 February 1896, German
Chemist
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo18 January 1930, Portuguese
Chemical engineer
Marina Oswald17 July 1941, American, Russian
Pharmacist
Hazel Bishop17 August 1906, American
Chemist and businesswoman
Graças Foster26 August 1953, Brazilian
Business executive
Anna J. Harrison23 December 1912, American
Chemist
Antigoni Papadopoulou08 July 1954, Cypriot
Politician
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale28 January 1903, Northern Irish
Crystallographer