Category
page 120th-century American women biologists
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist
Linda B. Buck
American biologist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian-American biological researcher
Carol Greider
American molecular biologist
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist (1938–2011)
Mary E. Brunkow
American molecular biologist and immunologist

Sylvia A. Earle
American oceanographer
Mária Telkes
Hungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)
Nettie Stevens
American geneticist (1861–1912)

Martha Chase
American geneticist

Barbara Ehrenreich
American writer and journalist (1941–2022)
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
American botanist (1858-1934)
Florence Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer (1863 – 1948)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
American sexologist
Mary Agnes Chase
U.S. botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustrator (1869–1963)
Alice Eastwood
Canadian American botanist (1859-1953)
Isabella Abbott
Hawaiian-American professor of botany, ethnobotanist and specialist in algology (1919-2010)

Joanne Chory
American plant biologist and geneticist (1955–2024)
Flossie Wong-Staal
American virologist
Alice Catherine Evans
American microbiologist
Angelika Amon
Austrian American molecular and cell biologist and academic
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist (1922–2015)
Dixy Lee Ray
American marine biologist, politician and seventeenth governor of Washington (1914-1994)
Margaret Morse Nice
American ornithologist (1883–1974)
Katherine Esau
German-American botanist (1898-1997)

Mary Katharine Brandegee
American botanist (1844-1920)
Sallie W. Chisholm
American oceanographer, marine biologist
Rita R. Colwell
American microbiologist (born 1934)
Edith Schwartz Clements
U.S. botanist and botanical illustrator (1874–1971)
Mary J. Rathbun
American carcinologist (1860–1943)
Doris Duke
American heiress, philanthropist and billionaire (1912-1993)
Annie Morrill Smith
American botanist (1856-1946)
Gretchen C. Daily
American biologist
Svetlana Mojsov
Macedonian American biochemist
Clara H. Hasse
American botanist (1880-1926)
Ynes Mexia
Mexican-American botanist (1870–1938)
Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist and botanical collector (1863-1951)
Gladys Lounsbury Hobby
American scientist (1910-1993)

Alice Middleton Boring
American biologist, zoologist, and herpetologist (1883-1955)
Anita Roberts
American biologist
Rebecca Lancefield
American microbiologist (1895–1981)
Elisabeth Vrba
American paleontologist
Katherine Olivia Sessions
American botanist and landscape architect (1857-1940)
Ruth Lyttle Satter
American botanist, physiologist and mathematician (1923-1989)
Harriet Creighton
American geneticist (1909-2004)
Anna Murray Vail
American botanist, botanical collector, librarian and editor (1863-1955)
Mary-Dell Chilton
American biologist (born 1939)
Elzada Clover
American botanist (1897-1980)
Suzanne Eaton
American molecular biologist
Cornelia Clapp
American zoologist (1849-1934)
Mary Strong Clemens
American botanist (1873-1968)
Doris Mable Cochran
American herpetologist (1898-1968)
Mary Vaux Walcott
American artist, photographer, botanist and naturalist (1860-1940)
Phoebe Snetsinger
American birder (1931–1999)
Almut Gitter Jones
German born U.S. botanist (1923–2013)
Alison Jolly
American Primatologist
Nellie Adalesa Brown
American botanist