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page 120th-century American women inventors
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
Stephanie L. Kwolek
American chemist, inventor of Kevlar (1923–2014)
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Laurie Anderson
American artist and musician (born 1947)
Julie Newmar
American actress (b. 1933)
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
Temple Grandin
American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
Mária Telkes
Hungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)
Madam C. J. Walker
American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
Alice Augusta Ball
African American chemist (1892–1916)
Berenice Abbott
American photographer (1898-1991)
Mary Anderson
inventor of the windshield wiper blade (1866–1953)
Lynn Conway
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
Katharine Burr Blodgett
American physicist (1898-1979)
Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)
Edith Clarke
American electrical engineer (1884–1959)
Patricia Bath
American ophthalmologist and inventor (1942-2019)
Evelyn Berezin
American computer scientist (1925–2018)
Alice Pike Barney
American painter (1857-1931)
Barbara Askins
American chemist
Edith M. Flanigen
American chemist
Helen Murray Free
American chemist and educator (1923–2021)
Klara Dan von Neumann
Hungarian computer scientist (1911-1963)
Ruth R. Benerito
American scientist and inventor (1916-2013)
Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (1872-1952)
Valerie Thomas
American scientist and inventor
Bette Nesmith Graham
Inventor, businesswoman (1924–1980)
Rachel Fuller Brown
American chemist (1898–1980)
Marion Donovan
American inventor and architect (1917–1998)
Beulah Louise Henry
American business woman and inventor (1887-1973)
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
psychologist (1893–1993)
Mary Sherman Morgan
American rocket fuel scientist
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
American microbiologist (1885-1975)
Caresse Crosby
American publisher, activist, and inventor of the bra (1892–1970)
Patsy O'Connell Sherman
American chemist
Helen Blanchard
American inventor (1840–1922)
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Nurse and an inventor
Olive Dennis
American engineer (1885-1957)
Altina Schinasi
American sculptor and filmmaker (1907–1999)
Ann Tsukamoto
American stem cell researcher and inventor
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner
US inventor
Ruth Graves Wakefield
American chef (1903-1977)
Anne Tyng
American architect (1920–2011)
Martha Matilda Harper
Canadian-American entrepreneur (1857-1950)
Anne Klein
American fashion designer (1923–1974)
Betsy Ancker-Johnson
American physicist (1927-2020)
Monica Helms
American transgender activist and writer
Anna Keichline
American architect (1889–1943)
Agnes Quirk
American botanist (1884-1974)
Bessie Blount Griffin
American physical therapist (1914-2009)
Hazel Bishop
American chemist and cosmetics company founder (1906–1998)
Leona Chalmers
American writer, inventor and actress
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt
Inventor and pianist (1871-1950)
Sibyl M. Rock
pioneer in mass spectrometry and computing
Annie Malone
American businesswoman (1869-1957)
Misha Mahowald
American computational neuroscientist
Alice H. Parker
American inventor
Elizabeth Riddle Graves
American physicist (1916-1972)
Rachel Zimmerman
21st-century Canadian space scientist and inventor