Category
page 120th-century American women physicists
Maria Goeppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist (1921-2011)
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)
Lisa Randall
American theoretical physicist
Ingrid Daubechies
Belgian physicist and mathematician
Mildred Dresselhaus
American physicist (1930-2017)
Ellen Ochoa
American engineer and former astronaut
Katharine Burr Blodgett
American physicist (1898-1979)
Susan Solomon
American atmospheric chemist
Shirley Ann Jackson
American physicist (born 1946)
Patricia Bath
American ophthalmologist and inventor (1942-2019)
Antonia Maury
American astronomer (1866–1952)
Marietta Blau
Austrian nuclear physicist (1894–1970)
Charlotte Moore Sitterly
American astronomer (1898-1990)
Leona Woods
American nuclear physicist (1919–1986)
Helen Quinn
Australian physicist
Claudia Alexander
American geophysicist and planetary scientist (1959-2015)
Hertha Sponer
German physicist and chemist (1895–1968)
Sulamith Goldhaber
Austrian-American high-energy physicist, molecular spectroscopist (1923-1965)
Jaqueline Barton
American chemist
Esther M. Conwell
American physicist
Mary K. Gaillard
American physicist
Elda Emma Anderson
American physicist (1899-1961)
Marcia Neugebauer
American geophysicist
Gabriela González
Argentinian physicist
Tanya Atwater
American geophysicist and marine geologist (born 1942)
Jennifer Tour Chayes
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1956)
Margaret Eliza Maltby
American physicist (1860–1944)
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
American nuclear physicist (1926–2012)
Pamela J. Bjorkman
American biochemist
Katharine Way
American physicist
Natalie Batalha
American astrophysicist
Marcia McNutt
American geophysicist
Melba Phillips
American physicist and science educator (1907–2004)
France A. Córdova
American astrophysicist and university president (born 1947)
Virginia Norwood
American aerospace engineer, inventor, and physicist
Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
Nuclear physicist (1911–1998)
Bruria Kaufman
physicist (1918–2010)
Margaret G. Kivelson
American geophysicist, planetary scientist
Nina Byers
American physicist (1930-2014)
Myriam Sarachik
American physicist (1933–2021)
Joan Hinton
American physicist (1921–2010)
Mary Tsingou
American physicist and mathematician
Claire F. Gmachl
Austrian electrical engineer
Isabelle Stone
American physicist
Judith Young
American physicist (1952–2014)
Meredith Gourdine
American long jumper and engineer (1929–1998)
June Bacon-Bercey
American meteorologist
Betsy Ancker-Johnson
American physicist (1927-2020)
Alessandra Buonanno
Italian / American physicist
Sau Lan Wu
American physicist
Debra Elmegreen
American astronomer
Willie Hobbs Moore
American physicist
Cherry Ann Murray
American professor
Jane Hamilton Hall
American physicist