Science, Engineering & Technology

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Émilie du Châtelet, French Mathematician & Physicist, born 17th December 1706
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Jane Colden, American Botanist, born 27th March 1724
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Mary Somerville, Scottish science writer & polymath, born 26th December 1780

Anna Atkins, British Botanist and Photographer, born 16th March 1799

Lydia Becker, British Suffragist & Scientist, born 24th February 1827

Ellen Swallow Richards, American industrial and environmental chemist, born 3rd December 1842

Sarah Frances Whiting, American Physicist & Astronomer, born 23rd August 1847
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Hertha Marks Ayrton, British Engineer & Inventor, born 28th April 1854
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Elizabeth Britton, American Botanist, born 9th January 1857
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Mary Kingsley, British Scientist and Explorer, born 13th October 1862
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Florence Bailey, American ornithologist and nature writer, born 8th August 1863
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Matilda Knowles, Irish Botanist and Lichenologist, born 31st January 1864

Marie Curie, Polish Physicist, born 7th November 1867

Clara Immerwahr, German Chemist, born 21st June 1870

Florence Sabin, "first lady of American science", born 9th November 1871

Katharine McCormick, American Biologist, Suffragist & Philanthropist, born 27th August 1875
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​Harriet Brooks, Canadian Nuclear Physicist, born 2nd July 1876

Lillian Gilbreth, American Industrial Engineer, born 24th May 1876

Laura Annie Willson, British Engineer & Housebuilder, born 15th August 1877

Lise Meitner, Austrian Nuclear Physicist, born 7th November 1878

Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist and pathologist, born 20th March 1879

Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch Botanist, born 4th January 1883
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Elizabeth Lee Hazen, American Microbiologist, born 24th August 1885

Winifred Goldring, American Paleontologist, born 1st February 1888

Libbie Hyman, American Zoologist, born 6th December 1888
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Gerty Cori, American Biochemist & Nobel Prize winner, born 15th August 1896

Irène Joliot-Curie, French Scientist, Nobel Prize winner, born 12th September 1897

Florence B. Seibert, American Biochemist, born 6th October 1897

Janaki Ammal, Indian Botanist, born 4th November 1897

Rachel Fuller Brown, American Chemist, born 23rd november 1898

Barbara McClintock, American Nobel Prize winning Geneticist, born 16th June 1902

Elsie MacGill, Canadian Aircraft Designer, born 27th March 1905
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American Physicist, born 28th June 1906

Grace Hopper, computer scientist in the US Navy, born 9th December 1906

Rachel Carson, American Marine Biologist, born 27th May 1907

Beatrice Shilling, British Aeronautical Engineer and Motorcycle Racer, born 8th March 1909
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Marguerite Perey, French Physicist, born 19th October 1909

Margaret Rousseau, American Chemical Engineer, born 27th October 1910

Dorothy Hodgkin, British Chemist & Nobel Prize winner, born 12th May 1910

Elsie Quarterman, American Ecologist & Botanist, born 28th November 1910
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Eva Crane,  British Bee Scientist, born 12th June 1912

Anna Jane Harrison, American organic chemist, born 23rd December 1912

Mary Leakey, British Archaeologist & Anthropologist, born 6th February 1913

Dixy Lee Ray, American marine biologist & environmentalist, born 3rd September 1914

Sameera Moussa, Egyptian Nuclear Scientist, born 3rd March 1917

​Betty Holberton, American Software Engineer, born 7th March 1917
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Gertrude Elion, American Biochemist & Pharmacologist, born 23rd January 1918

Hilda Hänchen, German Physicist, born 1st September 1919

Rosalind Franklin, British Biophysicist, born 25th July 1920

Rosalyn Sussman, American Physicist & Nobel Prize winner, born 19th July 1921

Trixie Worsley, Mexican Canadian Computer Scientist, born 18th October 1921

Dora Strother, American Pilot and Engineer, born 27th November 1921
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Stephanie Kwolek, American Chemist and Engineer, born 31st July 1923

Maggie Gee, Chinese American Physicist & Airforce Pilot, born 5th August 1923
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Thelma Estrin, American Computer Scientist, born 21st February 1924
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Janet Rowley, American Geneticist, born 5th April 1925
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Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian Physicist, born 5th May 1927

Rosalinde Hurley, British Pathologist & Public Health Expert, born 30th December 1929
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Dian Fossey, American Zoologist & Gorilla Expert, born 16th January 1932

Lynn Margulis, American Biologist, born 5th March 1938

Sally Shlaer, American Software Engineer, born 3rd December 1938

Donella Meadows, American Environmental Scientist, born 13th March 1941

Kalpana Chawla, Indian American Astronaut, born 17th March 1962