Nobel Laureates
First Nobel Laureate to win 2 Noble Prizes (Chemistry & Physics) and First female professor at Paris-Sorbonne University in Paris, France
Marie Curie
British chemist who worked on the molecular structures of DNA and RNA
Rosaline E. Franklin
American Mathematician-Physicist whose calculations of orbital mechanics for NASA helped the success of the first US crewed spaceflights
Katherine Johnson
The first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States
Elizabeth Blackwell
Developer of CRISPR, specifically CRISPR-Cas9 for programmable editing of genomes
Jennifer Anne Doudna
2022 Chemistry Nobel Laureate for her work in "Bio-orthogonal chemistry", chemical reactions within living systems
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Wife of a famous French chemist and bacteriologist known for popular microbial fermentation process
Marie Pasteur
Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who is known for her discovery of nuclear fission
Lise Meitner
The first African-American woman to become a licensed physician in the United States
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
She is the CEO and co-founder of the personal genomics company, 23&Me
Anne Wojcicki
The daughter in Nobel Prize-winning "Mother-Daughter" Pair! She took home the Chemistry Prize in 1935
Iréne Joliot-Curie (Marie Curie's Daughter)
First African-American woman to receive a PhD in Chemistry
Marie M. Daly
British physicist who proposed that stars were composed of primarily hydrogen and helium
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
American physician best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth
Virginia Apgar
Barnard Alum who created the first "long-lasting" lipstick and founder of the cosmetics company "Hazel Bishop, Inc."
Hazel G. Bishop
2009 Chemistry Nobel Laureate winner best known for her crystallography work on the structure and function of ribosomes
Ada E. Yonath
American Inorganic chemist who served as the Under Secretary for Technology for the US Department of Commerce under President Clinton and Former president of ACS
Mary L. Good
Chinese physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process of separating Uranium into Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion
Chein-Shiung Wu
Henrietta Lacks
American electrical engineer who founded "Black Girls Code", a non-profit organization that focuses on computer programming education to African-American girls
Kimberly Bryant
2018 Chemistry Nobel Laureate & first American woman to win this award for her work in evolution
Frances H. Arnold
The first African-American female chemistry professor at the University of Hawaii who developed a technique to isolate ester compounds from raw material while maintaining its therapeutic properties
Alice Augusta Ball
German physicist and 1963 Nobel Laureate in Physics for her work on proposing the nuclear shell model for the atomic nucleus
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Her research team partnered with Moderna to create and distribute the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine
Kizzmekia Corbett
First female CEO of a large biotechnology company in the United States, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Reshma Kewalramani