20th-century American women scientists

British chemist

American anthropologist (1901-1978)

American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)

American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)

American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)

American astronomer (1863-1941)

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

Lithuanian-American archaeologist

American astronomer and human calculator (1868–1921)

American NASA scientist and mathematician

American chemist, inventor of Kevlar (1923–2014)

American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)

American computer scientist

British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)

American astronomer, researcher and university teacher

American astronaut (born 1951)

American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist

American computer scientist (1932–2020)

Hungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)

African American chemist (1892–1916)

American computer scientist

American computer scientist (1949-2003)

American planetary scientist

American astronomer (1932-2009)

American mathematician (1930–2026)

American astrophysicist

American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)

African-American mathematician

American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)

American ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011)

Spanish biochemist (1938-2019)

American medical scientist (1871–1953)

Irish computer programmer (1921-2006)

American atmospheric chemist

American-Canadian psychologist & scholar

American computer programmer (1917–2001)

American writer and forensic anthropologist

astronomer (1905-1993)

American oceanographer and cartographer (1920–2006)

American astronomer

American geneticist

American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actress and activist (1909/1912–2006)

first American woman to receive a PhD in computer science (1913-1985); simultaneously with Irving Tang first American to receive PhD in computer science, nun

American geologist (1862–1945)

American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)

American astronomer (1866–1952)

American computer scientist (born 1945)

American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama (1942–1995)

Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)

English geneticist (1925–2014)

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

American sexologist and writer (1925-2013)

American botanist and limnologist (1907–2013)

American physician (1901-1963)

American psychologist

American computer scientist (1925–2018)

American chemist (1948–1997)

British astronomer (1862–1957)