List of female scientists in the 20th century

Anthropology

Katharine Bartlett (1907–2001), American physical anthropologist, museum curator

Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), American anthropologist

Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (born 1938), American Yemini linguistic anthropologist, educator

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American folklorist and anthropologist

Marjorie F. Lambert (1908-2006) American archeologist and anthropologist who studied Southwestern Puebloan peoples

Dorothea Leighton (1908–1989), American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology

Katharine Luomala (1907–1992), American anthropologist

Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American anthropologist

Grete Mostny (1914–1991), Austrian-born Chilean anthropologist and archaeologist

Miriam Tildesley (1883–1979), British anthropologist

Mildred Trotter (1899-1991), American forensic anthropologist

Camilla Wedgwood (1901-1955), British/Australian anthropologist

Alba Zaluar (born 1942), Brazilian anthropologist specializing in urban anthropology

Archaeology

Sonia Alconini (1965-), Bolivian archaeologist of the Formative Period of the Lake Titicaca basin

Jole Bovio Marconi (1897–1986), Italian archaeologist and prehistorian

Hester A. Davis, (1930-2014), American archaeologist who was instrumental in establishing public policy and ethical standards

Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941), Argentine egyptologist

Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994), Lithuanian archaeologist (Kurgan hypothesis)

Rosemary Joyce (1956), American archaeologist who uncovered chocolate's archaeological record and studies Honduran pre-history

Elisabeth Ruttkay, (1926-2009), Austrian Neolithic and Bronze Age specialist

Hanna Rydh (1891-1964), Swedish archaeologist and prehistorian

Astronomy

Claudia Alexander (1964-), American planetary scientist

Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944), British astronomer

Margaret Burbidge (1919–), British astrophysicist

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943–), Northern Irish-British astrophysicist

Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941), American astronomer

Janine Connes, French astronomer

A. Grace Cook (1887-1958), British astronomer

Heather Couper (1949–), British astronomer (astronomy popularisation, science education)

Joy Crisp, American planetary scientist

Sandra Faber (1944–), American astronomer

Pamela Gay (1973-), American astronomer

Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899-1954) Russian astronomer (planet 2388 Gase an Gaze Crater on Venus are named for her)

Julie Vinter Hansen (1890-1960), Danish astronomer

Martha Haynes (1951-), American astronomer

Lisa Kaltenegger - Austrian/American astronomer

Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942), American-born astronomer

Henrietta Leavitt, (1868–1921), American astronomer (periodicity of variable stars)

Evelyn Leland (c.1870–c.1930), American astronomer working at the Harvard College Observatory

Priyamvada Natarajan, Indian/American astrophysicist

Carolyn Porco (1953–), American planetary scientist

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1978), British-American astronomer

Ruby Payne-Scott (1912–1981), Australian radio astronomer

Vera Rubin (1928–2016), American astronomer

Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898–1990), American astronomer

Jill Tarter (1944–), American astronomer

Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist

Maria Zuber (1958-), American planetary scientist

Biology

Nora Lilian Alcock (1874–1972), British plant pathologist

Alice Alldredge, (1949-) American oceanographer and researcher of marine snow, discover of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) and demersal zooplankton

June Almeida (1930–2007), British virologist

E. K. Janaki Ammal (1897–1984), Indian botanist

Yvonne Barr (1932–), British virologist (co-discovery of Epstein-Barr virus)

Lela Viola Barton (1901–1967), American botanist

Kathleen Basford (1916–1998), British botanist

Gillian Bates, British geneticist (Huntington's disease)

Val Beral (1946–), British–Australian epidemiologist

Grace Berlin (1897–1982), American ecologist, ornithologist and historian

Agathe L. van Beverwijk (1907–1963), Dutch mycologist

Gladys Black (1909–1998), American ornithologist

Idelisa Bonnelly (1931-), Dominican Republic marine biologist

Alice Middleton Boring (1883–1955), American biologist

Annette Frances Braun (1911–1968), American entomologist, expert on microlepidoptera

Linda B. Buck (1947–), American neuroscientist (Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 for olfactory receptors)

Hildred Mary Butler (1906–1975), Australian microbiologist

Esther Byrnes (1867–1946), American biologist and science teacher

Bertha Cady (1873–1956), American entomologist and educator

Audrey Cahn (1905–2008) Australian microbiologist and nutritionist

Eleanor Carothers (1882–1957), American zoologist, geneticist and cytologist

Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American marine biologist and conservationist

Edith Katherine Cash (1890–1992), American mycologist and lichenologist

Martha Chase (1927–2003), American molecular biologist

Mary-Dell Chilton (1939–), American molecular biologist

Theresa Clay (1911–1995), English entomologist

Edith Clements (1874–1971), American botanist and pioneer of botanical ecology

Elzada Clover (1897–1980), American botanist

Ursula M. Cowgill, American biologist and anthropologist

Gerty Theresa Cori (1896–1957), American biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947)

Suzanne Cory (1942–), Australian immunologist/cancer researcher

Janet Darbyshire, British epidemiologist

Gertrude Crotty Davenport (1866–1946), American zoologist and eugenicist

Sophie Charlotte Ducker (1909–2004), Australian botanist

Sophia Eckerson (1880–1954), American botanist

Sylvia Edlund (1945–2014), Canadian botanist

Charlotte Elliott (1883-1974), American plant physiologist

Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis (1874–1956), American botanist

Vera Danchakoff (1879 – about 1950) Russian anatomist, cell biologist and embryologist, "mother of stem cells"

Rhoda Erdmann (1870–1935), German cell biologist

Katherine Esau (1898–1997), German-American botanist

Edna H. Fawcett (1879–1960), American botanist

Catherine Feuillet (1965-), French molecular biologist who was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B

Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American zoologist

Birutė Galdikas (1946–), German primatologist and conservationist

Margaret Sylvia Gilliland (1917–1990), Australian biochemist

Jane Goodall (1934–), British biologist, primatologist

Isabella Gordon (1901–1988), Scottish marine biologist

Susan Greenfield (1951–), British neurophysiologist (neurophysiology of the brain, popularisation of science)

Charlotte Elliott (1883–1974), American plant physiologist

Constance Endicott Hartt (1900–1984), American botanist

Eliza Amy Hodgson (1888–1983), New Zealand botanist

Lena B. Smithers Hughes (1905–1987), American botanist, developed strains of the Valencia orange

Marian Koshland (1921–1997), American immunologist

Frances Adams Le Sueur (1919–1995), British botanist and ornithologist

Margaret Reed Lewis (1881–1970), American cell biologist and embryologist

Maria Carmelo Lico (1927–1985), Italo-Argentinian-Brazilian neuroscientist

Gloria Lim (1930-), Singaporean mycologist, first woman Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Singapore

Liliana Lubinska (1904–1990), Polish neuroscientist

Misha Mahowald (1963–1996), American neuroscientist

Lynn Margulis (1938–2011), American biologist

Deborah Martin-Downs, Canadian aquatic biologist, ecologist

Sara Branham Matthews (1888–1962), American microbiologist

Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), American geneticist, Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1983

Eileen McCracken (1920–1988), Irish botanist

Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893–1950), American plant pathologist

Anne McLaren (1927–2007), British developmental biologist

Ethel Irene McLennan (1891–1983), Australian botanist

Eunice Thomas Miner, American biologist, executive director of the New York Academy of Sciences 1939–1967

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), Italian neurologist (Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1986 for growth factors)

Ann Haven Morgan (1882–1966), American zoologist

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942–), German geneticist and developmental biologist (Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine 1995 forhomeobox genes)

Ida Shepard Oldroyd (1856–1940), American conchologist

Daphne Osborne (1930–2006), British plant physiologist (plant hormones)

Mary Parke (1908–1989), British marine botanist specialising in phycology, the study of algae

Jane E. Parker (1960– ), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants

Eva J. Pell (1948–), American plant pathologist

Theodora Lisle Prankerd (1878–1939), British botanist

Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897–1931), British zoologist (herpetologist)

F. Gwendolen Rees (1906–1994), British parasitologist

Anita Roberts (1942–2006), American molecular biologist, "mother of TGF-Beta"

Gudrun Ruud (1882–1958), Norwegian zoologist specializing in embryology

Hazel Schmoll (1890–1990), American botanist

Idah Sithole-Niang (1957-), biochemist focusing on cowpea production and disease

Margaret A. Stanley, British virologist and epithelial biologist

Phyllis Starkey (1947–) British biochemist and medical researcher

Magda Staudinger (Latvian: Magda Štaudingere) (1902-1997), Latvian-German biologist and chemist

Sarah Stewart (1905-1976), Mexican American microbiologist (discovered the Polyomavirus)

Ragnhild Sundby (1922–2006), Norwegian zoologist

Maria Telkes (1900–1995), Hungarian-American biophysicist

Lois H. Tiffany (1924–2009), American mycologist

Lydia Villa-Komaroff (1947–), Mexican American molecular cellular biologist

Karen Vousden, British cancer researcher

Elisabeth Vrba, South African paleontologist

Marvalee Wake (born 1939), American biologist researching limbless amphibians, educator

Jane C. Wright (1919–2013), American oncologist

Kono Yasui (1880–1971), Japanese cytologist

Eleanor Anne Young (1925–2007), American nutritionist and educator

Anna Veiga (1956-) Spanish biologist Stem cell and Assisted reproductive technology researcher

Chemistry

Maria Abbracchio, (1956-) Italian pharmacologist who works with purinergic receptors and identified GPR17. On Reuter's most cited list since 2006.

Barbara Askins (1939-), American chemist

Alice Ball (1892-1916), American chemist

Ulrike Beisiegel (1952-), German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen

Anne Beloff-Chain (1921–1991), British biochemist

Jeannette Brown (born 1934), medicinal chemist, writer, educator

Astrid Cleve (1875–1968), Swedish chemist

Seetha Coleman-Kammula (1950-) Indian chemist and plastics designer, turned environmentalist

Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist (pioneer in radiology, discovery of polonium and radium), Nobel prize in physics 1903 and Nobel prize in chemistry 1911

Mary Campbell Dawbarn (1902–1982), Australian biochemist

Moira Lenore Dynon (1920–1976), Australian chemist

Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist (Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 for drug development)

Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (1907-1997), American chemist and first licensed African American pharmacist in Iowa

Rosalind Franklin (1920–1957), British physical chemist and crystallographer

Ellen Gleditsch (1879–1968), Norwegian radiochemist

Jenny Glusker (born 1931), British biochemist, educator

Emīlija Gudriniece (1920-2004), Latvian chemist and academic

Anna J. Harrison (1912–1998), American organic chemist

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), British crystallographer, Nobel prize in chemistry 1964

Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), German chemist

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935

Chika Kuroda (1884–1968), Japanese chemist

Stephanie Kwolek (1923–), American chemist, inventor of Kevlar

Lidija Liepiņa (1891-1985), Latvian chemist, one of the first Soviet doctorates in chemistry.

Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971), British crystallographer

Grace Medes (1886–1967), American biochemist

Maud Menten (1879–1960), Canadian biochemist

Helen T. Parsons (1886–1977), American biochemist

Nellie M. Payne (1900–1990), American entomologist and agricultural chemist

Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist

Darshan Ranganathan (1941-2001), Indian organic chemist

Mildred Rebstock (1919-2011), American pharmaceutical chemist

Elizabeth Rona, (1890-1981) Hungarian (naturalized American) nuclear chemist and polonium expert

Patsy Sherman (1930-2008), American chemist, co-inventor of Scotchgard

Marija Šimanska (1922-1995), Latvian chemist

Ida Noddack Tacke (1896–1978), German chemist and physicist

Grace Oladunni Taylor, Nigerian chemist 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science

Jean Thomas, British biochemist (chromatin)

Michiyo Tsujimura (1888–1969), Japanese biochemist, agricultural scientist

Elizabeth Williamson, English pharmacologist and herbalist

Ada Yonath (1939–), Israeli crystallographer, Nobel prize in Chemistry 2009

Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899-2001) Scottish chemist, one of the first women elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh

Geology

Zonia Baber (1862–1955), American geographer and geologist

Inés Cifuentes (1954–2014), American seismologist and educator

Moira Dunbar (1918–1999), Scottish-Canadian glaciologist

Elizabeth F. Fisher (1872-1941), American geologist

Winifred Goldring (1888-1971), American paleontologist

Eileen Hendriks (1887–1978), British geologist

Dorothée Le Maître (1896–1990), French paleontologist

Karen Cook McNally (1940–2014), American seismologist

Inge Lehmann (1888–1993) Danish seismologist who discovered Earth’s solid inner core

Marcia McNutt (1951– ), American geophysicist

Ellen Louise Mertz (1896–1987), Danish engineering geologist

Ruth Schmidt (1916–2014), American geologist

Ethel Shakespear (1871–1946), English geologist

Kathleen Sherrard (1898–1975), Australian geologist and palaeontologist

Ethel Skeat (1865–1939), English paleontologist and geologist

Marjorie Sweeting (1920–1994), British geomorphologist

Marie Tharp (1920–2006), American geologist and oceanographic cartographer

Elsa G. Vilmundardóttir (1932–2008), Iceland's first female geologist

Marguerite Williams (1895-?), American geologist

Alice Wilson (1881-1964), Canadian geologist and paleontologist

Elizabeth A. Wood (1912–2006), American crystallographer and geologist

Mathematics or computer science

Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), British mathematician and electrical engineer (electric arcs, sand ripples, invention of several devices, geometry)

Anita Borg (1949–2003), American computer scientist, founder of the Institute for Women and Technology

Mary L. Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician

Amanda Chessell, British computer scientist

Ingrid Daubechies (1954–), Belgian mathematician (Wavelets - first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics)

Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (1876–1964), Russian/Dutch mathematician

Deborah Estrin (1959–), American computer scientist

Vera Faddeeva (Russian: Вера Николаевна Фаддеева) (1906-1983), Russian mathematician. One of the first to publish works on linear algebra.

Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–), American mathematician, second African-American woman to get a Ph.D. in mathematics

Marion Cameron Gray (1902–1979), Scottish mathematician

Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), mathematician, founding member of the American Mathematical Society.

Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist

Margarete Kahn (1880-1942), German mathematician

Lyudmila Keldysh (1904-1976) Russia mathematician known for set theory and geometric topology

Marguerite Lehr (1898–1987), American mathematician

Margaret Anne LeMone (born 1946), mathematician and atmospheric scientist

Barbara Liskov (1939–), American computer scientist for whom the Liskov substitution principle is named

Margaret Millington (1944–1973), English mathematician

Mangala Narlikar (graduated 1962), Indian mathematician

Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), Hungarian mathematician

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976), British mathematician and theoretical biochemist

Jeannette Wing, computer scientist, Microsoft Corporate Vice President

Science education

Kathleen Jannette Anderson (1927 - 2002), Scottish biologist

Susan Blackmore (1951–), British science writer (memetics, evolutionary theory, consciousness, parapsychology)

Florence Annie Yeldham (1877 – 1945), British school teacher and historian of arithmetic

Engineering

Kate Gleason (1865–1933), American engineer

Frances Hugle (1927 – 1968), American engineer

Maria Tereza Jorge Pádua (born 1943), Brazilian ecologist

Mary Olliden Weaver (20th century), inventor of the "super slurper," a starch graft polymer

Medicine

Phyllis Margery Anderson (1901–1957), Australian pathologist

Virginia Apgar (1909–1974) American obstetrical anesthesiologist (inventor of the Apgar score)

Anna Baetjer (1899 –1984), American physiologist and toxicologist

Roberta Bondar (1945-), Canadian, space medicine

Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919–2004), American surgeon

Audrey Cahn (1905–2008), Australian nutritionist and microbiologist

Margaret Chan (1947–), Chinese-Canadian health administrator; director of the World Health Organization

Evelyn Stocking Crosslin (1919–1991), American physician

Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874–1934), British surgeon (first female FRCS)

Claire Fagin (1926-), American health-care researcher

Esther Greisheimer (1891–1982), American academic and medical researcher

L. Ruth Guy (1913–2006), American academic and pathologist

Karen C. Johnson (1955-) American physician and clinical trials specialist who is one of Reuter's most cited scientists

Mary Jeanne Kreek (born 1937), American neurobiologist

Elise L'Esperance (1878–1958), American pathologist

Elaine Marjory Little (1884–1974), Australian pathologist

Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Chinese/American hepatologist, wrote WHO and AASLD guidelines for emerging countries and liver disease

Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (1906–2007) pioneer American cancer epidemiologist and cancer researcher

Catharine Macfarlane (1877-1969), American obstetrician and gynecologist

Charlotte E. Maguire (1918—2014), Florida pediatrician and medical school benefactor

Louisa Martindale (1872–1966), British surgeon

Helen Mayo (1878–1967), Australian doctor and pioneer in preventing infant mortality

Frances Gertrude McGill (1877–1959), Canadian forensic pathologist

Eleanor Montague (born 1926), American radiologist and radiotherapist

Anne B. Newman (1955- ), US Geriatrics & Gerontology expert

Antonia Novello (1944-), Puerto Rican physician and Surgeon General of the United States

Dorothea Orem (1914-2007), Nursing theorist

Ida Ørskov (1922–2007), Danish bacteriologist

May Owen (1892-1988), Texas pathologist, discovered talcum powder used on surgical gloves caused infection and peritoneal scarring

Angeliki Panajiotatou (1875-1954), Greek physician and microbiologist

Kathleen I. Pritchard (1956-), Canadian oncologist, breast cancer researcher and noted as one of Reuter's most cited scientists.

Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1888-1973), German-American pathologist

Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (1935–1990), American medical researcher

Una Ryan, (1941) Malaysian born-American, heart disease researcher, biotech vaccine and diagnostics maker/marketer

Una M. Ryan, (1966) patented DNA test identifying the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium

Velma Scantlebury, (1955) first woman of African descent to become a transplant surgeon in the U.S.

Lise Thiry (born 1921), Belgian virologist, senator

Helen Rodríguez Trías (1929-2001), Puerto Rican American pediatrician and advocate for women's reproductive rights

Marie Stopes (1880-1958) British paleobotanist and pioneer in birth control

Elizabeth M. Ward, American epidemiologist and head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department of the American Cancer Society

Elsie Widdowson (1908–2000), British nutritionist

Fiona Wood, (1958–), British-Australian plastic surgeon

Paleoanthropology

Mary Leakey (1913–1996), British paleoanthropologist

Suzanne LeClercq (1901-1994), Belgian paleobotanist and paleontologist

Physics

Faye Ajzenberg-Selove (1926–), American nuclear physicist, (2007 US National Medal of Science)

Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1929–), American plasma physicist

Milla Baldo-Ceolin (1924–2011), Italian particle physicist

Marietta Blau (1894–1970), German experimental particle physicist

Lili Bleeker (1897-1985), Dutch physicist

Katharine Blodgett (1898–1979), American thin-film physicist

Christiane Bonnelle, French spectroscopist

Sonja Ashauer (1923–1948), first Brazilian woman to earn a doctorate in physics

Tatiana Birshtein (born 1928), molecular scientist specializing in the physics of polymers

Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866–1952), Danish physicist (active in Argentina from 1909)

Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909–1997), Lithuanian-American physicist,

Harriet Brooks (1876–1933), Canadian radiation physicist

A. Catrina Bryce (1956–), Scottish laser scientist

Nina Byers (1930–2014), American physicist

Yvette Cauchois (1908–1999), French physicist

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–), French theoretical physicist

Patricia Cladis (1937–), Canadian/American physicist

Esther Conwell (1922–), American physicist, semiconductors

Cécile DeWitt-Morette (1922–), French mathematician and physicist

Louise Dolan, American mathematical physicist, theoretical particle physics and superstring theory

Nancy M. Dowdy (1938–), Nuclear physicist, arms control

Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–), American physicist, graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and low-dimensional thermoelectrics

Helen T. Edwards (1936–), American physicist, Tevatron

Magda Ericson (1929–), French nuclear physicist

Edith Farkas (1921-1993), Hungarian-born New Zealand meteorologist who measured ozone levels

Ursula Franklin (1921–), Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator

Judy Franz (1938–), American physicst and educator

Joan Maie Freeman (1918–1998), Australian physicist

Phyllis S. Freier (1921–1992), American astrophysicist

Mary K. Gaillard (1939–), American theoretical physicist

Fanny Gates (1872–1931), American physicist

Claire F. Gmachl, American physicist

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), German-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1963

Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911–1998), American nuclear physicist

Sulamith Goldhaber (1923–1965), American high-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist

Gail Hanson (1947–), American high-energy physicist

Margrete Heiberg Bose (1866–1952), Danish/Argentine physicist

Evans Hayward (1922–), American physicist

Caroline Herzenberg (1932–), American physicist

Hanna von Hoerner (1942–2014), German astrophysicist

Shirley Jackson (1946–), American nuclear physicist, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from M.I.T.

Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (1903–1999), British physicist

Lorella M. Jones (1943–1995), American particle physicist [1]

Carole Jordan (1941–), British solar physicist

Renata Kallosh (1943–), Russian/American theoretical physicist

Berta Karlik (1904–1990), Austrian physicist

Bruria Kaufman (1918–2010)

Elizaveta Karamihailova (1897-1968), Bulgarian nuclear physicist

Marcia Keith (1859–1950)

Ann Kiessling (1942–)

Margaret G. Kivelson (1928–)

Noemie Benczer Koller (1933–)

Ninni Kronberg (1874-1946), Swedish physiologist in nutrition

Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922–2010)

Elizabeth Laird (physicist) (1874–1969)

Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933–2014)

Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), Danish seismologist and geophysicist

Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971)

Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860–1944), American physicist

Helen Megaw (1907–2002)

Mileva Maric (1875-1948), Serbian physicist, first wife of Albert Einstein

Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian nuclear physicist (pioneering nuclear physics, discovery of nuclear fission, protactinium, and the Auger effect)

Kirstine Meyer (1861–1941)

Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915–1981)

Anna Nagurney Canadian-born, US operations researcher/management scientist focusing on networks

Chiara Nappi, Italian American physicist

Ann Nelson (1958–), American physicist

Marcia Neugebauer,

Gertrude Neumark (1927–2010)

Ida Tacke Noddack (1896–1979)

Emmy Noether (1882–1935), German mathematician and theoretical physicist (symmetries and conservation laws)

Marguerite Perey (1909–1975)

Melba Phillips (1907–2004)

Agnes Pockels (1862–1935)

Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999), Russian physicist

Edith Quimby (1891–1982)

Helen Quinn (1943–), American particle physicist

Lisa Randall (1962–), American physicist

Myriam Sarachik (1933–), American physicist

Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928–1984), Italian/American nuclear physicist

Anneke Levelt Sengers (born 1929), Dutch physicist specializing in the critical states of fluids

Johanna Levelt Sengers, Dutch/American physicist

Hertha Sponer (1895–1968), German/American physicist and chemist

Isabelle Stone (1868–1944), American thin-film physicist and educator

Edith Anne Stoney (1869-1938), Anglo-Irish medical physicist

Katharine Way (1903–1995), American nuclear physicist

Mariana Weissmann (born 1933) Argentine physicist,computational physics of condensed matter

Lucy Wilson (1888-1980) American physicist, working on optics and perception

Leona Woods (1919–1986), American nuclear physicist

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997), Chinese-American physicist (nuclear physics, (non) conservation of parity)

Sau Lan Wu, Chinese-American particle physicist

Xide Xie (Hsi-teh Hsieh) (1921–2000), Chinese physicist

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–2011), American medical physicist (Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 for radioimmunoassay)

Fumiko Yonezawa (born 1938), Japanese theoretical physicist

Toshiko Yuasa (1909–1980), Japanese nuclear physicist

Psychology

Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999), American-Canadian developmental psychologist, inventor of the "Strange Situation" procedure

Martha E. Bernal (1931-2001), Mexican-American clinical psychologist, first Latina to receive a psychology PhD in the United States

Lera Boroditsky, American psychologist

Mamie Clark (1917–1983), African-American psychologist active in the civil rights movement

Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902–1959) important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine

Tsuruko Haraguchi (1886–1915), Japanese psychologist

Margaret Kennard (1899–1975) did pioneering research on age effects on brain damage, which produced early evidence for neuroplasticity

Grace Manson (1893–1967), occupational psychologist

Rosalie Rayner (1898–1935), American psychology researcher

Marianne Simmel (1923–2010), American psychologist, made important contributions in research on social perception and phantom limb.

Davida Teller (1938–2011), American psychologist, known for work on development of the visual system in infants.

Nora Volkow (1956-), Mexican-American psychiatrist, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Margo Wilson (1945–2009), Canadian evolutionary psychologist

Catherine G. Wolf (1947–), American psychologist and expert in human-computer interaction