Celebrating their return to the surface following a two-week stay on the bottom of the Caribbean in underwater research project Tektite 2, women...
Portrait of American computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley at NASA Lewis Research Center , Brook Park, Ohio, 1960s.
Portrait of English author and mathematician Ada Byron , circa 1835. From the New York Public Library.
Head and shoulders portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell , the first woman , to receive a medical degree in the U.S. Undated photograph.
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Washington: Dr Antonia Novello, nominated to be the new surgeon general, testifies before the Senate Labor and Resources Committee, February 9th. If...
Dr Chien-Shiung Wu, professor of Physics at Columbia University in New York, is shown at work with the apparatus used in experimental work that...
Female medical students dissect cadavers during anatomy class at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia.
Lisa Meitner, Austrian-Jewish scientist who is credited with being one of the first to do research on the development of the atomic bomb, is pictured...
Lieutenant Grace Hopper codes problems onto punch tape for feeding into a new calculating machine invented by Commander Howard H. Aiken, USNR. The...
New York: Dr Rosalyn Yalow, a nuclear physicist who spent 30 years researching hormones at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, works in her...
St. Louis, Missouri: Dr. Gerty Cori, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Biochemistry in the Washington University School of Medicine.
Portrait of Nobel prize-winning Israeli scientist Ada Yonath as she poses in her laboratory at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, March 7, 2002.
Portrait of Adele Goldberg, from ParcPlace Systems/Smalltalk, at the annual PC Forum, Palm Springs, California, March 19-22.
Scientist Valerie Thomas stands in front of a blackboard and with early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes at the Goddard Space Flight Center,...
American engineer and astronaut Mae Jemison works in zero gravity in the centre aisle of the Spacelab Japan science module aboard OV-105, the Space...
Scientist Jane Goodall studies the behavior of a chimpanzee during her research February 15, 1987 in Tanzania.
Mathmatician Mary Jackson, the first black woman engineer at NASA poses for a photo at work at NASA Langley Research Center in 1977 in Hampton,...
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Chief Controller of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, on the phone at her desk in the War Office, London, November 20th...
Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA: Kenyan Nobel peace prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai holds, 21 July 2005, a tree that she planted in the Newlands...
Space scientist and tv presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock is photographed for the Observer on August 21, 2014 in Guildford, England.
Former Russian cosmonaut and lecturer Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova attends a press conference at the Soviet Embassy in London during a tour of...
Katalin Kariko speaks to the media during a press conference at the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on October 11, 2023 in Budapest,...
Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, speaks at a press conference after being named this year's Nobel Laureate...
Professor Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, circa 1960s. Dorothy Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1964 for her studies using X-ray...
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is photographed on September 25, 2020 in Wheaton, Maryland. Dr. Corbett, a viral immunologist at the National Institutes of...
French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier poses for photographers in Berlin, on October 7, 2020. -...
In this handout image supplied by NASA, NASA astronaut Christina Koch is helped out of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft just minutes after she, Roscosmos...
Portrait of NASA human computer and African-American mathematical pioneer Katherine Johnson smiling, at a desk with notes, 1966. Image courtesy NASA.
Studio photograph by Walery, with facsimile of Anderson's signature. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman doctor in England. Anderson had...
World famous astronomer Vera Rubin in her office at Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, DC on January 14, 2010. .
Stephanie Shirley, chairman of FI Group Plc, speaks during an event at Google Inc.'s Kings Cross office in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016....
At the Oxford University Observatory, astronomer Ethel Bellamy studies a transit for judging time with the sun and the stars. With her uncle, F.A....
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a British chemist and crystallographer who is best known for her role in the discovery of the structure of DNA. 1955.
Melinda French Gates wins an Albie onstage during the Clooney Foundation for Justice's The Albies at the Natural History Museum on October 03, 2025...
Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, Swedish-French physicist Anne L'Huillier gestures as she delivers a speech in front of guests of the Nobel Prize...
Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, speaks during a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing in...
Dr. Kathrin Jansen attends Forbes x Know Your Value 50 Over 50 on December 15, 2021 in New York City.
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell during a ceremony to hand over launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to SpaceX Monday, April 14, 2014.
March 2016, Hessen, Frankfurt/Main: The American biochemist Jennifer A. Doudna, winner of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2016, is...
Elizabeth Anionwu attends the Pride Of Britain Awards 2019 at The Grosvenor House Hotel on October 28, 2019 in London, England.
