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.
Katherine Johnson26 August 1918, American
Mathematician
Marie Curie07 November 1867, French, Polish
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Ada Lovelace10 December 1815, British
Countess of Lovelace
Rosalind Franklin25 July 1920, British
Chemist
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
Dian Fossey16 January 1932, Rwandan, American
Zoologist, Conservationist
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Mileva Marić19 December 1875, Serbian
Physicist
Maria Montessori31 August 1870, Italian
Physician and Educator
Hypatia0370 AD, Ancient Roman
Mathematician, Philosopher, Astronomer, Writer
Rachel Carson27 May 1907, American
Marine biologist
Shakuntala Devi04 November 1929, Indian
Human Computer
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
Peggy Whitson09 February 1960, American
Astronaut, Biochemist
Rita Levi-Montalcini22 April 1909, Italian
Neurologist
Marie Stopes15 October 1880, British
Paleobotanist & Women’s Rights Activists
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910, British
Biochemist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt04 July 1868, American
Astronomer
Sophie Germain01 April 1776, French
Mathematician
Caroline Herschel16 March 1750, German
Astronomer
Stephanie Kwolek31 July 1923, American
Chemist
Radia Perlman18 December 1951, American
Computer Network Engineer
Elizabeth Blackburn26 November 1948, Australian, American
American-Australian researcher
Gertrude B. Elion23 January 1918, American
Biochemist, Pharmacologist
Annie Jump Cannon11 December 1863, American
Astronomer
Janaki Ammal1897 AD, Indian
Botanist
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Gerty Cori15 August 1896, American
Biochemist
Maria Mitchell01 August 1818, American
Astronomer
Ada Yonath22 June 1939, Israeli
Scientist
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow19 July 1921, American
Medical Physicist
Vanessa Nadal18 August 1982, American
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Wife
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard20 October 1942, German
Researcher
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898, American
Scientist
Maria Goeppert-Mayer28 June 1906, American
Physicist
Inge Lehmann13 May 1888, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
Shawna Pandya , Canadian
Citizen-Scientist Astronaut
Nina Gray23 August 1974, American
Entrepreneur
Agnes Arber23 February 1879, British
Botanist
Janet Lane-Claypon03 February 1877, British
Physician
Marguerite Vogt13 February 1913, American
Biologist & Virologist
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Retta12 April 1970, American
Stand-up Comedian
Dorothy Vaughan20 September 1910, American
Mathematician
Ginni Rometty29 July 1957, American
Businesswomen
Maryam Mirzakhani03 May 1977, Iranian
mathematician, topologist, university teacher
Julie Payette20 October 1963, Canadian
Astronaut
Alicia Nash01 January 1933, Salvadoran, American
Physicist
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw23 March 1953, Indian
Business woman
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Aafia Siddiqui02 March 1972, Pakistani
Neuroscientist
Vandana Shiva05 November 1952, Indian
Philosopher, Physicist, Writer, University teacher
Arfa Karim02 February 1995, Pakistani
Computer scientist
Nell Newman08 April 1959, American
Actress
Sylvia Earle30 August 1935, American
Marine biologist
Masoumeh Ebtekar21 September 1960
Immunologist, Journalist, Translator
Sudha Murthy19 August 1950, Indian
Author, Social worker, Computer scientist,
Jennifer Doudna19 February 1964, American
Biochemist
Tu Youyou30 December 1930, Chinese
chemist, pharmacologist, inventor, university
Jocelyn Bell Burnell15 July 1943, British
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Vera Rubin23 July 1928, American
Astronomer
Chien-Shiung Wu31 May 1912, Chinese
Physicist
Tessy Thomas31 March 1963, Indian
aerospace engineer, engineer, scientist
Donna Strickland27 May 1959, Canadian
Optical physicist
Lynn Conway10 January 1938, American
computer scientist, engineer, inventor
Fei-Fei Li1976 AD, American
Computer scientist
Sofia Kovalevskaya15 January 1850, Russian
Mathematician
Roberta Williams16 February 1953, American
Writer, Computer scientist
Barbara Liskov07 November 1939, American
Computer scientist, University teacher
Helen Sharman30 May 1963, British
Chemist
Carol W. Greider15 April 1961, American
Biologist, Molecular biologist, Geneticist,
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin10 May 1900, British, American
Astronomer, University teacher
Lisa Randall18 June 1962, American
Physicist, Writer, University teacher, Theoretical
Frances Oldham Kelsey24 July 1914, Canadian, American
Pharmacologist
Laura Bassi31 October 1711, Italian
Italian physicist, Academic
Ruth Lawrence02 August 1971, British
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Daphne Koller27 August 1968, American
computer scientist, engineer
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1623 AD, British
philosopher, scientist, poet, science fiction
Margaret Murray13 July 1863, British
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Egyptologist
Kathryn D. Sullivan03 October 1951, American
Geologist
Shafi Goldwasser1958 AD, Israeli
university teacher, cryptographer, mathematician,
Mary Leakey06 February 1913, British
Academic, Anthropologist
Williamina Fleming15 May 1857, British, American, Scottish
Astronomer
Shannon Lucid14 January 1943, American
Astronaut, Chemist
Nettie Stevens07 July 1861, American
Geneticist
Sophie Wilson1957 AD, British
computer scientist
Audrey Mestre11 August 1974, French
Free-diver, Marine biologist
Fabiola Gianotti29 October 1962, Italian
physicist
Ellen Swallow Richards03 December 1842, American
Chemist, University teacher, Economist