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Dorothea Leighton (1908–1989), American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology. Katharine Luomala (1907–1992), American anthropologist. Margaret McArthur (1919–2002), Australian anthropologist, nutritionist and educator. Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American anthropologist.
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
1853: Jane Colden was the only female biologist mentioned by Carl Linnaeus in his masterwork Species Plantarum. [2] 1889: Mary Emilie Holmes became the first female Fellow of the Geological Society of America. [3] 1889: Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman to become a physician in the United States.
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [ 1][ 2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
Hungarian-American MIT inventor Mária Telkes and American architect Eleanor Raymond created, in 1947, the Dover Sun House, the first house powered by solar energy. Wrinkle-free fiber. Wrinkle-free fiber invented by Ruth R. Benerito The invention was said to have "saved the cotton industry".
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 ...
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [ 1] was an African-American woman [ 4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [ A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
Women scientists from the United States. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American scientists . It includes scientists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.