Hertha Ayrton
Brilliant British engineer, mathematician, physicist, investor and suffragette. Order her print here
Alice Augusta Ball
The (until recently) uncredited work by this brilliant African American chemist, at age 24, revolutionized the treatment of leprosy.
Mabel Hubbard Bell
Muse, wife and business partner of Alexander Graham Bell, she got him to patent his telephone and was the first woman to run an aviation business.
Rachel Carson
Pictured here at age 14 and armed with lilacs, Rachel Carson catalyzed the global environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring outlining the dangers of chemical pesticides, which ultimately led to creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Gertude 'Trudy' Elion
Changed the way drugs are developed, and won the Nobel Prize for Medicine
Dr. Marie Equi
Fiercely independent Oregon physician, she was engaged in the political turmoil and social change of the late nineteenth. Openly gay, she was dedicated to the expansion of women's reproductive choices, including access to birth control and abortion; was a leading figure in public health campaigns; organized a medical response to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and received an award from President Theodore Roosevelt for her work; was imprisoned for her anti-war activism.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Quite simply, she changed the world of medicine: Dorothy's discovery of the structure of penicillin made mass production of antibiotics
Frances Kelsey
Canadian-American pharmacologist/physician single-handedly prevented a thalidomide crisis in the U.S.
Hedy Lamarr
(Portrait in progress)
STEM pioneer - portrait underway. Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology enabled creation of WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems
Ada Lovelace
STEM pioneer - portrait underway
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
- unsung pioneer of nuclear fission
Mary Sherman Morgan
STEM pioneer - U.S. rocket fuel scientist whose invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne powered the rocket that boosted the first US satellite, Explorer 1.
Cecilia Payne
British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist, she discovered what stars are made of... and battled bias and prejudice.
Henriette-Marie LeJeune "Granny" Ross
Her reputation as a nurse and midwife was first established in the Little Bras d’Or area of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, when she reputedly innoculated local residents and saved them from a community smallpox epidemic. Her courage, determination, energy and love of adventure, made 'Granny Ross' a legend as a pioneering woman and healer.
Muriel Siebert
Finance industry groundbreaker, first woman to hold a seat on the NYSE
Dr. Jennie Smillie
Medical pioneer - first Canadian female surgeon, performed the country's first major gynecological surgery
Marie Tharp
American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who co-produced the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.
Gladys West
American mathematician whose modeling of the shape of the Earth, and work on satellite geodesy models, helped enable the creation of the Global Positioning System.
