Women Scientist Highlights
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Floy Agnes Lee
“The head of the division I was to be in did not like minorities. Because I was an Indian. I just didn’t ever realize why he had it against me. But that’s…
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Bertha Parker
The 1st Native American Woman Archeologist. Bertha Parker was born to the Seneca tribe in Chautauqua County, NY on Aug. 30, 1907. As a child, she would join her father on archeological…
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Huda Zoghbi
“We will never be successful and safe as a society unless we attend to all issues and all people.” Huda Zoghbi was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1954. Since a young age,…
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Evangelina Villegas
First woman to receive the World Food Prize and inventor of Quality Protein Maize. Evangelina Villegas was born in Mexico City, MX on October 24th, 1924. Villegas double majored at National Polytechnic…
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Anabella Villalobos
“I encourage women to raise their hand, be ready to tell their story, and ask for what they want.” Anabella Villalobos was born in Panama City in the early 1960s. She discovered…
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Mary Temple Grandin
“Make the environment work for you not against you. Never leave up to willpower and self-discipline what you can do with the environment.” Temple Grandin was born in 1947 in Boston, MA.…
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Fei-Fei Li
“I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is: Who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the…
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Chien-Shiung Wu
“…it is shameful that there are so few women in science… In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy…
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Edith Clarke
“There is no demand for women engineers . . . but there’s always demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.” Edith Clarke was born in Howard County, MD…
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Mary Engle Pennington
A pioneer of modern food sanitation and food refrigeration. Mary Pennington was born in Nashville, TN on Oct. 8th, 1872 and raised in Philadelphia, PA where she would eventually attend University. Pennington…
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Gladys West
“Always doing things just right, to set an example for others who were coming behind me, especially women.” Gladys West was born on Oct. 27, 1930 in Sutherland, VA to a rural…
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Susan Picotte
“I am a dreamer who dreams, sees visions, and listens always to the still, small voice. I am a trail-blazer.” – Susan Picotte
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Rebeca Gerschman
The first person to discover the effects of oxygen free radicals on cell death and aging.
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Lori Alvord
The first Diné (Navajo) to become board certified in surgery.
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Lauren Esposito
“Visibility is important for mental health, for standing up to injustices, and for mentoring current colleagues and future scientists.” – Lauren Esposito
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Isabella A. Abbott
“I call the endemic plants the first Hawaiians. Gingers and heliconias will grow elsewhere. The endemic plants will not. This is their home. It’s like the Hawaiian people – they belong here.”…
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Helen Trías
“We need health, but above all we need to create a grounding for healthy public policy that redresses and salvages the growing inequities. We cannot achieve a healthier us without achieving a…
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Frances H. Arnold
“Most innovations are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you’ve got a good idea, follow it even when others say it’s not.” –…
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Fe Del Mundo
“I feel that if you give the world the best that you can, the best will always come back to you.” – Fe Del Mundo
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Rosalind Franklin
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” – Rosalind Franklin
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Uma Chowdhry
“I had the courage to dream the impossible.” – Uma Chowdhry
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Margaret H. Rousseau
The first woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering from MIT, the first woman member of AIChE, the first female AIChE Fellow, and the first woman to receive AIChE’s Founders Award.
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Mary G. Ross
The first known Native American engineer and notable engineer in the field of aerospace design.
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Sally Ride
“Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge” – Sally Ride
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Jane Rigby
“When a person can be their authentic self at work, I strongly believe that they will do more brilliant, creative science.” – Jane Rigby
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Sara Josephine Baker
“All my life, I have maintained that the prejudice of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.” – Sara Josephine Baker
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Lynn Conway
“If you want to change the future, start living as if you’re already there.” – Lynn Conway
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Florence Nightingale
“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.” – Florence Nightingale
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Kalpana Chawla
“I never truly thought of being the first or second someone, or being a small-town girl. This is just something I wanted to do. If you want to do something, what does…
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Ynés Mexía
“In all my travels I’ve never been attacked by a wild animal, lost my way or caught a disease… I don’t think there’s any place in the world where a woman can’t…