20th-century American women academics

American anthropologist (1901-1978)

American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)

Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)

British-born American astronomer

American poet (1911–1979)

American photojournalist (1895-1965)

American actress

American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)

American poet (1928–1974)

American mathematician and aerospace engineer

American writer (1917–2000)

Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)

American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)

American writer (1912–1989)

American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)

Swedish actress (1920–1995)

American-Canadian psychologist & scholar

author, poet, and naturalist

astronomer (1905-1993)

American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)

Nigerian writer

American electrical engineer (1884–1959)

American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer (1941–2001)

American physician (1901-1963)

American photographer (1883-1976)

American author (1911-1987)

American chemist (1948–1997)

nurse, researcher, theorist and author (1897–1996)

Hawaiian-American professor of botany, ethnobotanist and specialist in algology (1919-2010)

German-American textile artist, weaver and graphic designer, student and teacher at the Bauhaus (1899–1994)

American politician and diplomat (1924–1985)

American biochemist (1913–2009)

American linguist; studied historical linguistics (1910–1996)

American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer (1908–1997)

poet, scholar, and writer (1951-2018)

American author (1915–1979)

American theologian (1936–2022)

American marine biologist, politician and seventeenth governor of Washington (1914-1994)

18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

American computer scientist

American economist

British philosopher (born 1946)

German soprano (1888–1952)

American political scientist and university administrator

American chemist (1898–1980)

American librarian and 14th Librarian of Congress (born 1952)

American organic chemist (1912–1998)

American spectroscopist and chemical educator (1880–1972)

American psychology researcher (1938-2018)

Indian classical dancer (1930-1999)

American astronomer (1907–2007)

American astronomer (1886–1982)

German paleontologist (1897-1967)

American mathematician, educator (1914–1979)

African American painter (1905–1998)

American politician in North Carolina (born 1946)

American physician (1873-1945)

Biomathematician and public health scientist

American political theorist (1928–1992)

American physicist