Meet Nancy Grace Roman, the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope
She discovered fundamental truths about stars and galaxies, and also shaped NASA into what we know it as today
Meet Melba Roy Mouton, the Space Race mathematician and keeper of orbiting satellites
Roy Mouton, a mathematician and programmer, was a sort of hidden figure in Hidden Figures
Meet Evelyn Boyd Granville, the mathematician who mass produced computers and shot Apollo into space
One of the first Black women to earn a PhD in math, she worked on seemingly every major math project of the 20th century
Meet Gerty Cori, the Nobel-winning biochemist who uncovered how the body stores and consumes sugars
Cori's work determined glycogen storage "disease" had several subtypes, each with a unique molecular cause
Meet Kathleen Lonsdale, the physicist and prison reformer who cracked benzene's code
Lonsdale assembled her own X-ray crystallography laboratory from scratch to solve a century-old mystery
Meet Virginia Apgar, the unlikely anesthesiologist who saved newborn babies
Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate
Meet Merit-Ptah, the ancient Egyptian doctor who didn't exist
Though created by accident, her story fit neatly with burgeoning 20th century feminism
Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice
According to colleague Kathryn J. Levin, Jin "probably would have gotten the Nobel"
Meet Lynnae Quick, NASA's hunter of space cryomagma
Only the fifth African American woman with a planetary sciences PhD, she's on the team hoping to first see Europa's geysers
Meet Lady Mary Montagu, who brought smallpox inoculation to England
This poet and essayist likely saved many lives from this deadly, disfiguring disease
Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WW1 trenches of poisonous gas
Ayrton was the first woman to recieve the Hughes Medal for outstanding research in the field of energy, but still the Royal Society refused her membership
Meet Betty Hay, the scientist who saw how cells grow and limbs regenerate
Happy birthday to the trailblazing developmental biologist
Meet Antonia Maury, astronomy's renegade who changed the way we classify stars
Maury was part of a group of brilliant women known as the "Harvard Computers"
Meet Alice Wilson, the Canadian geologist who did the work of five people
She wasn't allowed to work at remote field sites, so she became the expert in her local rocks and fossils
Remembering Katherine Johnson. A space scientist's life in pictures
A critical scientist for the space program, passed away today at 101
Meet Rebecca Lancefield, the revolutionary microbiologist whose work paved the way for antibiotics
The sage of Streptococcus wouldn't take "you don't belong here" for an answer
Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever
She survived world wars, anti-Semitism, and decades of exposure to early radiochemistry
Meet Chien-Shiung Wu, the nuclear physicist who developed revolutionary experiments
She changed how we understand fundamental laws that move both quarks and planets
Meet Dr. Gladys West, the hidden figure behind your phone's GPS
Gladys West is one of the reasons why you can receive driving directions from your phone or tag a photo location on Instagram