She discovered that the stars are composed of 99% Hydrogen and Helium.
Annie Jump Cannon
Cecilia Payne
Nancy Roman
She was known as the "Queen of Carbon Science"
Mildred Dresselhaus
Margarita Salas
Marie Paulze Lavoisier
She co-invented an important military communications technology, which is now used in WI-FI and Bluetooth.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Edith Clarke
Hedy Lamarr
She performed some fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS.
Francoise Barre Sinoussi
Rosalind Franklin
Barbara McClintock
They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing" (through CRISPR).
Rosalyn Yalow and Gertrude B. Elion
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
Frances Hamilton Arnold and Donna Strickland
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Gerty Theresa Cori
Marie Curie
She was a pioneer in solar energy technology.
Maria Telkes
Lucia Galvani
Helen Edwards
She participated in the creation of the Basic Programming Language.
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller
Ángela Ruiz Robles
Grace Murray Hopper
Her book "Silent Spring" helped to launch the environmental movement.
Lynn Margulis
Rachel Carson
Katherine Esau
She was the first ever computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace