Throughout history, there have been many women scientists who have made significant contribution to the field. The list includes many familiar and great female scientists such as Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner.The women scientists 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
Ada Lovelace10 December 1815, British
Countess of Lovelace
Katherine Johnson26 August 1918, American
Mathematician
Shakuntala Devi04 November 1929, Indian
Human Computer
Sally Ride26 May 1951, American
Physicist, Astronaut
Juliane Koepcke10 October 1954, German, Peruvian
Lone Survivor of 1971 LANSA Plane Crash
Grace Hopper09 December 1906, American
Computer Scientist
Rosalind Franklin25 July 1920, British
Chemist
Dian Fossey16 January 1932, Rwandan, American
Zoologist, Conservationist
Maria Montessori31 August 1870, Italian
Physician and Educator
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Mileva Marić19 December 1875, Serbian
Physicist
Hypatia0370 AD, Ancient Roman
Mathematician, Philosopher, Astronomer, Writer
Rachel Carson27 May 1907, American
Marine biologist
Irène Joliot-Curie12 September 1897, French
Chemist
Emmy Noether23 March 1882, German
Mathematician
Lise Meitner07 November 1878, Austrian
Physicist
Lynn Margulis05 March 1938, American
Author
Barbara McClintock16 June 1902, American
Scientist
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910, British
Biochemist
Sophie Germain01 April 1776, French
Mathematician
Rita Levi-Montalcini22 April 1909, Italian
Neurologist
Marie Stopes15 October 1880, British
Paleobotanist & Women’s Rights Activists
Peggy Whitson09 February 1960, American
Astronaut, Biochemist
Elizabeth Blackburn26 November 1948, Australian, American
American-Australian researcher
Caroline Herschel16 March 1750, German
Astronomer
Stephanie Kwolek31 July 1923, American
Chemist
Gerty Cori15 August 1896, American
Biochemist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt04 July 1868, American
Astronomer
Gertrude B. Elion23 January 1918, American
Biochemist, Pharmacologist
Maria Mitchell01 August 1818, American
Astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon11 December 1863, American
Astronomer
Radia Perlman18 December 1951, American
Computer Network Engineer
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Janaki Ammal1897 AD, Indian
Botanist
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow19 July 1921, American
Medical Physicist
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Ada Yonath22 June 1939, Israeli
Scientist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard20 October 1942, German
Researcher
Maria Goeppert-Mayer28 June 1906, American
Physicist
Inge Lehmann13 May 1888, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
Shawna Pandya , Canadian
Citizen-Scientist Astronaut
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898, American
Scientist
Janet Lane-Claypon03 February 1877, British
Physician
Agnes Arber23 February 1879, British
Botanist
Marguerite Vogt13 February 1913, American
Biologist & Virologist
Nina Gray23 August 1974, American
Entrepreneur
Vanessa Nadal18 August 1982, American
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Wife
Retta12 April 1970, American
Stand-up Comedian
Alicia Nash01 January 1933, Salvadoran, American
Physicist
Dorothy Vaughan20 September 1910, American
Mathematician
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw23 March 1953, Indian
Business woman
Aafia Siddiqui02 March 1972, Pakistani
Neuroscientist
Ginni Rometty29 July 1957, American
Businesswomen
Nell Newman08 April 1959, American
Actress
Maryam Mirzakhani03 May 1977, Iranian
mathematician, topologist, university teacher
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin10 May 1900, British, American
Astronomer, University teacher
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952, Indian
Philosopher, Physicist, Writer, University teacher
Donna Strickland27 May 1959, Canadian
Optical physicist
Jennifer Doudna19 February 1964, American
Biochemist
Arfa Karim02 February 1995, Pakistani
Computer scientist
Tu Youyou30 December 1930, Chinese
chemist, pharmacologist, inventor, university
Sylvia Earle30 August 1935, American
Marine biologist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell15 July 1943, British
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Steve Shirley16 September 1933, German, British
Computer scientist, Feminist
Fei-Fei Li1976 AD, American
Computer scientist
Vera Rubin23 July 1928, American
Astronomer
Chien-Shiung Wu31 May 1912, Chinese
Physicist
Lynn Conway10 January 1938, American
computer scientist, engineer, inventor
Sofia KovalevskayaRussian
Roberta Williams16 February 1953, American
Writer, Computer scientist
Lisa Randall18 June 1962, American
Physicist, Writer, University teacher, Theoretical
Barbara Liskov07 November 1939, American
Computer scientist, University teacher
Sudha Murthy19 August 1950, Indian
Author, Social worker, Computer scientist,
Laura Bassi31 October 1711, Italian
Italian physicist, Academic
Michelle ThallerAmerican
Margaret Murray13 July 1863, British
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Egyptologist
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1623 AD, British
philosopher, scientist, poet, science fiction
Gertrude Jekyll29 November 1843, British
Horticulturist, Painter, Gardener, Non-fiction
Daphne Koller27 August 1968, American
computer scientist, engineer
Tessy Thomas31 March 1963, Indian
aerospace engineer, engineer, scientist
Sophie Wilson1957 AD, British
computer scientist
Mary Leakey06 February 1913, British
Academic, Anthropologist
Shafi Goldwasser1958 AD, Israeli
university teacher, cryptographer, mathematician,
Audrey Mestre11 August 1974, French
Free-diver, Marine biologist
Alice Hamilton27 February 1869, American
Toxicologist, Pathologist, University teacher,
Clara Immerwahr21 June 1870
Chemist, Feminist
Fred Vargas07 June 1957, French
Writer, Archaeologist, Novelist, Historian
Shirley M. Tilghman17 September 1946, Canadian
Molecular biologist, University teacher,
Ruth Lawrence02 August 1971, British
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Anna AtkinsBritish
Catherine Coleman14 December 1960, American
Chemist, Air force officer, Astronaut, Engineer
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi30 July 1947, French
Virologist
Anita Borg17 January 1949, American
Computer scientist
Ellen Swallow Richards03 December 1842, American
Chemist, University teacher, Economist
Amy Mainzer02 January 1974, American
astronomer