This is a list of notable female scientists by historical period, listed within each section alphabetically by name, with their years of activity, and field of endeavor.

*Agamede 12th century, (possibly mythical) physician in Ancient Greece *Aglaonike (unknown), the first woman astronomer in Ancient Greece *Agnodike (4th century BCE), the first woman physician to practice legally in Athens *Arete of Cyrene (5th-4th centuries BCE), natural and moral philosopher, North Africa *Artemisia of Caria (c. 300 BCE), botanist *Aspasia of Miletus (4th century BCE), philosopher and scientist *Cleopatra the Alchemist (1st century BCE - 1st century AD) *Diotima of Mantinea (4th century BCE), philosopher and scientist, ancient Greece (sources vary as to her historicity; possibly a fictionalized character based on Aspasia of Miletus) *Enheduanna (c. 2285-2250 BCE), Sumerian/Akkadian astronomer and poet *Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415), mathematician and astronomer, Egypt

*Mary the Jewess (1st or 2nd century CE), alchemist *Merit Ptah (c.2700 BCE), Egyptian physician

*Pythias of Assos (4th century BCE), marine zoologist

*Tapputi-Belatekallim (c 1200 BCE), Babylonian chemist *Theano (6th century BCE), philosopher, mathematician and physician

*Abella (14th century), Italian physician *Hildegard von Bingen (1099-1179), German natural philosopher *Dorotea Bocchi (fl. 1390), Italian professor of medicine *Constance Calenda (15th century), Italian surgeon specialising in diseases of the eye *Constanza, Italian physician *Calrice di Durisio (15th century), Italian physician *Jacobina Félicie (fl. 1322), Italian physician *Alessandra Giliani (fl. 1318), Italian anatomist

*Rebecca de Guarna (14th century), Italian physician *Heloise (12th century), French mathematician and physician *Herrad of Landsberg (c.1130-1195), German/French author of the encyclopedia and technological compendium Garden of Delight *Maria Incarnata, Italian surgeon *Margarita (14th century), Italian physician *Thomasia de Mattio, Italian physician *Mercuriade (14th century), Italian physician and surgeon *Empress Theodora (500-545), Byzantine philosopher and mathematician *Trotula of Salerno (c. 1090), Italian physician

*Aphra Behn (1640-1689), British astronomer *Juliana Berners (fl. 1460), British natural historian *Celia Grillo Borromeo (1684-1777), Italian natural philosopher *Sophia Brahe (1556-1643), Danish astronomer and chemist *Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), natural philosopher *Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), German astronomer *Du Chatelet, Martine de Birtereau, Baroness of Beausoleil (1602-1642), French mineralogist and mining engineer *Jeanne Dumée (fl. 1680), French astronomer

*Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), German natural philosopher *Françoise Grigan (1646-1705), French natural philosopher

*Elisabetha Koopman Hevelius (c.1646), Polish astronomer *Anne de La Vigne (b. 1684), French natural philosopher *Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), naturalist *Tarquinia Molza (1542-1617), Italian natural philosopher *Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684), Italian mathematician and the first female PhD *Louise-Anastasia Serment (1642-1692), French natural philosopher *Jane Sharp (fl. 1671), British midwife *Lorenna Strozzi (1515-1591), Italian natural philospoher

*Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799), Italian mathematician *Maria Ardinghelli (1728-1825), Italian mathematician and physicist *Anna Atkins (1799-1871), British botanist *Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola (c. 1702), natural philosopher, translator *Laura Bassi (1711-1778), Italian physicist *Margaret Bryan (b. c.1760), British natural philosopher *Jane Colden (1724-1766), American biologist *Gabrielle-Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-1749), French natural philosopher *Maria Dalle Donne (1778-1842), Italian physician *Eva Ekeblad (1724-1786), Swedish agronomist *Dorothea Leporin Erxleben (1715-1762), German physician *Elizabeth Fulhame (fl. 1794), British chemist *Sophie Germain (1776-1831), elasticity theory, number theory *Catherine Littlefield Green (1755-1814), American inventor

*Claudine Guyton de Morveau (c.1770-c.1820), French natural philosopher *Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), German-British astronomer *Josephine Kablick (b. 1787), Botanist *Christine Kirch (c.1696-1782), German astronomer *Maria Margarethe Kirch, (1670-1720), German astronomer *Maria La Chapelle (1769-1821), French midwife *Marie Améile Lalande (fl. 1790), French astronomer *Marie Paulze Lavoisier (1758-1836), French chemist and illustrator *Nichole-Reine Etable de la Brière Lepaute (1723-1788), French astronomer *Martha Daniell Logan (1702-1779), American horticulturist *Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716-1774), Italian physician and anatomist

*Maria Pettracini (fl. 1780), Italian anatomist and physician *Louise du Pierry (b. 1746), French astronomer

*Martha Laurens Ramsey (1718-1811), American agronomist

*Elisabeth Adams (19th century) *Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822-1907), American natural historian *Mary Albertson, American astronomer and biologist *Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), British physician *Mary Anning (1799-1847), British natural historian *Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923), British physicist *Sara Josephine Baker (1873-1945), American doctor (child hygiene pioneer) *Florence Bascom (1862-1945), American geologist *Isabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), British natural historian *Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), American physician *Emily Blackwell (1826-1910 ), American physician *Marie Gillain Boivin (1773-1841), French midwife *Mary Layne Brandegee (1844-1920), American biologist *Elizabeth Knight Britton (1858-1934), American biologist *Mary E. Britton (19th century) *Elizabeth Brown (d. 1899), British astronomer *Mary Morland Buckland (d. 1857), British natural historian *Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930), American psychologist *Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), American astronomer *Mary Agnes Meara Chase (1869-1963), American biologist *Cornelia Clapp (1849-1934), American zoologist *Agnes Mary Claypole (1870-1954), American biologist *Edith Jane Claypole (1870-1915), American biologist *Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907), British astronomer *Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930), American natural historian *A. Grace Cook American astronomer *Clara Eaton Cummings (1853-1906), American biologist *Florence Cushman American astronomer *Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt (1859-1928) American pathologist *Amalie Dietrich (1821-1891), German natural historian *Maria Dalle Donne (19th century) *June Etta Downey (1875-1932), American psychologist *Mary Anna Palmer Draper (1839-1914), American astronomer *Alice Eastwood (1859-1953), American biologist *Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858-1947), American biologist *Mileva Einstein-Maric (1875-1948), Serbian/Swiss physicist *Ellen Eglui (19th century) *Mary Orr Evershed (1867-1949), British astronomer *Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951), American biologist *Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), American ethnologist *Williamina Fleming (1857-1911), Scottish/American astronomer *Lydia Folger Fowler (1822-1879), American physician *Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871-1945), American archeologist *Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins (1848-1915), British astronomer *Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857-1945), American biologist *Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912), British physician *Marcia Keith (1859-1950), American physicist *Mary Kies (19th century), American inventor *Helen Dean King (1869-1955), American biologist *Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), Russian mathematician (partial differential equations, rotating solids, Abelian functions) *Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930), American psychologist *Lefebre (19th century)

*Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921), American astronomer *Sarah Plumber Lemmon (1836-1923), American biologist *Jane Webb Loudon (1807-1858), British botanist *Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace (1815-1851), British mathematician *Mary Horner Lyell (1808-1873), British geologist *A. H. Manning (19th century) *Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860-1944), American physicist *Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858), British natural philosopher *Lillen Jane Martin (1851-1943), American psychologist *Sarah Mather (19th century) *Annie Russell Maunder (1868-1947), Irish astronomer *Antonia Caetana Maury (1866-1952), American astronomer *Carlotta Joaquina Maury (1874-1938), American paleontologist *Olive Thorne Miller (1831-1918), American natural historian *Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), American astronomer *Mary Murtfeldt (1848-1913), American biologist *Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse *Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828-1901), British biologist *Edith Marion Patch (1876-1954), American biologist *Florence Peebles (1874-1956), American biologist *Mary Engle Pennington (1872-1952), American chemist *Sophia Pereyaslaw (19th century) *Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884), American science educator *Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), British mycologist *Mary Jane Rathbun (1860-1943), American marine biologist *Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911), American industrial and environmental chemist *Emily Roebling (1844-1903), American civil engineer *Clemence Augustine Royer (1830-1902) *Caterina Scarpellini (1808- ) *Rena Florence Sabin (1871-1953), American anatomist and public health official *Ethel Sargant (1863-1918), British biologist *Lucy Sistare Say (1801-1885), American scientific illustrator *Ellen Churchill Semple (1863-1932), American geographer *Annie Lorrain Smith (1854-1937), British lichenologist and mycologist *Mary Somerville (1780-1872), British physicist *Nettie Stevens (1861-1912), American geneticist *Lucy Hobbs Taylor (1833-1910), American dentist *Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871), French marine biologist *Mary Walker (1832-1919), American surgeon *Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939), American psychologist *Sarah F. Whiting (1846-1927), American astronomer and physicist *Mary Watson Whitney (1847-1921), American astronomer *Fiammetta Wilson (1864-1920), British astronomer *Anna Winlock (1857-1904), American astronomer *Anne Sewell Young (1871-1961), American astronomer

* Faye Ajzenberg-Selove (1926- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Ajzenberg_Selove,Fay@88123456.html, American nuclear physicist * Claudia Alexander, American planetary scientist * Betsy Ancker-Johnson (1929- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Ancker-Johnson,_Betsy@841234567.html, American plasma physicist * Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923), British mathematician and electrical engineer (electric arcs, sand ripples, invention of several devices, geometry) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Ayrton,_Hertha_Marks@841234567.html * Milla Baldo-Ceolin http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Baldo-Ceolin,_Milla@960123456.html, Italian particle physicist * Yvonne Barr (1932- ), British virologist (co-discovery of Epstein-Barr virus) * Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), American anthropologist * Susan Blackmore (1951- ), British science writer (memetics, evolutionary theory, consciousness, parapsychology) * Mary Adela Blagg (1858-1944), British astronomer * Marietta Blau (1894-1970) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Blau,_Marietta@843727247.html, German experimental particle physicist * Katharine Blodgett (1898-1979) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Blodgett,_Katharine_Burr@844123456.html, American thin-film physicist * Christiane Bonnelle http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Bonnelle,_Christiane@871234567.html, French spectroscopist * Alice Middleton Boring (1883-1955), American biologist * Lera Boroditsky, American psychologist * Jenny Rosenthal Bramley (1909-1997), Lithuanian-American physicist http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Bramley,_Jenny_Rosenthal@901234567.html * Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Brooks,_Harriet@842580299.html, American radiation physicist * Linda B. Buck (1947- ), American neuroscientist (Nobel prize for olfactory receptors) * Margaret Burbidge (1919- ), British astrophysicist http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Burbidge,_E._Margaret@932123456.html * Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ), British astrophysicist (discovery of radio pulsars) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Burnell,_Jocelyn_Bell@841234567.html * Nina Byers (1930- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Byers,_Nina@931234567.html, American physicist * Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), American astronomer * Estella Eleanor Carothers (1883-1957), American biologist * Mary L. Cartwright (1900-1998) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Cartwright,_Mary_Lucy@951234567.html * Yvette Cauchois (1908-1999) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Cauchois,_Yvette@871234567.html * Martha Chase (1927-2003), American molecular biologist * Amanda Chessell computer scientist * Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Choquet-Bruhat,_Yvonne@922345678.html, French theoretical physicist * Patricia Cladis (1937- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Cladis,_Patricia_Elizabeth@959037368.html

* Janine Connes http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Connes,_Janine@841234567.html * Esther Conwell (1922- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Conwell,_Esther_Marly@841873837.html * Ursula M. Cowgill, American biologist and anthropologist * Suzanne Cory (1942- ), Australian immunologist/cancer researcher * Heather Couper (1949- ), British astronomer (astronomy popularisation, science education) * Deborah Crocker (1957- ) * Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934), Polish-French chemist (pioneer in radiology, discovery of polonium and radium) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Curie,_Marie_Sklodowska@812345678.html * Eleanor Davies-Colley (1874–1934), British surgeon (first female FRCS) * Cecile DeWitt-Morette (1922- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/DeWitt-Morette,_Cecile@862345678.html * Louise Dolan http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Dolan,_Louise@901234567.html * Nancy M. Dowdy (1938- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Dowdy,_Nancy_M._O%27Fallon@941234567.html * Mildred Dresselhaus (1930- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Dresselhaus,_Mildred_Spiewak@846925666.html * Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902-1959) important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine.http://www.psych.yorku.ca/femhop/Helen%20Dunbar.htm * Helen T. Edwards (1936- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Edwards,_Helen_T.@881234567.html * Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (1876-1964) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Ehrenfest-Afanaseva,_Tatiana@900123456.html * Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999), American biochemist (Nobel prize for drug development) * Magda Ericson (1929- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Ericson,_Magda_Galula@881345678.html * Sandra Faber (1944- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Faber,_Sandra_Moore@931234567.html * Claire Fagin, American health-care researcher * Rosalind Franklin (1920-1957), British physical chemist and crystallographer * Judy Franz (1938- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Franz,_Judy_R.@921234567.html * Phyllis S. Freier (1921-1992) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Freier,_Phyllis_S.@921234567.html * Mary K. Gaillard (1939- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Gaillard,_Mary_Katharine@847418063.html * Fanny Gates (1872-1931) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Gates,_Fanny_Cook@842511724.html * Kate Gleason (1865-1933), American engineer * Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Gleditsch,_Ellen@842345678.html * Claire F. Gmachl, American physicist * Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911-1998) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Goldhaber,_Gertrude_Scharff@812345678.html * Sulamith Goldhaber (1923-1965) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Goldhaber,_Sulamith@812345678.html * Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924- ) * Susan Greenfield (1951- ), British neurophysiologist (neurophysiology of the brain, popularisation of science) * Gail Hanson (1947- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Hanson,_Gail_Gulledge@841234567.html * Anna J. Harrison (1912-1998), American organic chemist * Evans Hayward (1922- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Hayward,_Evans@901234567.html * Caroline Herzenberg (1932- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Herzenberg,_Caroline_Littlejohn@8212345678.html * Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), British X-ray crystallographer http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Hodgkin,_Dorothy_Crowfoot@841234567.html * Grace Hopper (1906-1992), American computer scientist * Sethanne Howard (1944- ) * Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915), German chemist * Shirley Jackson (scientist) (1946- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Jackson,_Shirley_Ann@921234567.html * Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (1903-1999) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Jeffreys,_Bertha_Swirles@844118401.html

* Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and nuclear physicist http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Joliot-Curie,_Irene@841891460.html * Carole Jordan (1941- ), British solar physicist * Renata Kallosh (1943- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Kallosh,_Renata@882345678.html * Berta Karlik (1904-1990) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Karlik,_Berta@900123456.html * Bruria Kaufman (1918- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Kaufman,_Bruria@862345678.html * Marcia Keith (1859-1950) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Keith,_Marcia_Anna@941234567.html * Ann A. Kiessling (1942- ) * Margaret Kivelson (1928- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Kivelson,_Margaret_Galland@881234567.html * Dorothea Klumpke (1861-1942), American-born astronomer * Noemie Benczer Koller (1933- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Koller,_Noemie_Benczer@934123456.html * Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf,_Doris@900123456.html * Stephanie Kwolek (1923- ), American chemist, inventor of Kevlar * Elizabeth Laird (1874-1969) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Laird,_Elizabeth_Rebecca@944123456.html * Henrietta Leavitt, (1868-1921), American astronomer (periodicity of variable stars) * Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Lee-Franzini,_Juliet@901234567.html * Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Lehmann,_Inge@81234567.html * Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909- ), Italian neurologist (Nobel prize for growth factors)

* Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Lonsdale,_Kathleen_Yardley@8480138866.html * Margaret E. Maltby (1860-1944), American physicist http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Maltby,_Margaret_Eliza@901234567.html * Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), German-American physicist http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Mayer,_Maria_Goeppert@844444444.html * Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), American geneticist * Anne McLaren (1927-2007), British developmental biologist * Helen Megaw (1907- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Megaw,_Helen@851234567.html * Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Austrian nuclear physicist (pioneering nuclear physics, discovery of nuclear fission, protactinum, and the Auger effect) * Maud Menten (1879-1960), Canadian biochemist * Kirstine Meyer (1861-1941) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Meyer,_Kirstine_Bjerrum@944123456.html * Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister (1915-1981) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Meyer-Schutzmeister,_Luise@841234567.html

* Anna Nagurney Canadian-born, US operations researcher/management scientist focusing on networks * Chiara Nappi, Italian American physicist * Ann Nelson (1958- ), American physicist * Marcia Neugebauer http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Neugebauer,_Marcia@931234567.html * Gertrude Neumark (1927- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Neumark,_Gertrude_Fanny@900123456.html * Ida Tacke Noddack (1896-1979) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Noddack,_Ida_Tacke@844157201.html * Emmy Noether (1882-1935), German mathematician and theoretical physicist (symmetries and conservation laws) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Noether,_Amalie_Emmy@861234567.html * Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942- ), German geneticist and developmental biologist (Nobel prize for homeobox genes) * Donna Osif (20th century), meteorologist http://www.cis.vt.edu/ws/SLprojects/Cathy/slp2.html * Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1978), British-American astronomer * Marguerite Perey (1909-1975) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Perey,_Marguerite_Catherine@839289119.html * Melba Phillips (1907- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Phillips,_Melba_Newell@851234567.html * Agnes Pockels (1862-1935) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Pockels,_Agnes@871234567.html * P. Ya. Polubarinova-Kochina (1899- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Polubarinova-Kochina,_P._Ya.@921234567.html * Edith Quimby (1891-1982) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Quimby,_Edith_Hinkley@842345678.html * Helen Quinn (1943- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Quinn,_Helen_R.@861234567.html * Lisa Randall (1962- ), American physicist * F. Gwendolen Rees (1906-1994), British parasitologist * Anita Roberts (1942-2006), American molecular biologist, "mother of TGF-Beta" * Georgia Dwelle Rooks (20th century) * Vera Rubin (1928- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Rubin,_Vera_Cooper@931234567.html * Myriam Sarachik (1933- ) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Sarachik,_Myriam_P.@812345678.html * Bice Sechi-Zorn (1928-1984) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Sechi-Zorn,_Bice@853449324.html * Johanna Levelt Sengers http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Sengers,_Johanna_Levelt@902123456.html * Patsy Sherman (20th century) * Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898-1990), American astronomer * Hertha Sponer (1895-1968) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Sponer,_Hertha@838834963.html * Phyllis Starkey (1947- ) British biochemist and medical researcher * Isabelle Stone (1868-1944) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Stone,_Isabelle@941234567.html, American thin-film physicist and educator * Ida Noddack Tacke (1896-1978), German chemist and physicist * Maria Telkes (1900-1995), Hungarian-American biophysicist * Karen Vousden, British cancer researcher * Katharine Way (1903-1995) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Way,_Katharine@862427327.html * Mary Olliden Weaver (20th century), inventor * Sarah Whiting (1847-1927) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Whiting,_Sarah_Frances@944123456.html * Margo Wilson (1945- ), Canadian evolutionary psychologist * Dorothy Wrinch (1894-1976), British mathematician and theoretical biochemist * Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997), Chinese-American physicist (nuclear physics, (non) conservation of parity) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Wu,_Chien_Shiung@841234567.html * Sau Lan Wu http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Wu,_Sau_Lan@892345678.html, Chinese-American particle physicist * Xide Xie (Hsi-teh Hsieh) (1921-2000) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Xie,_Xide_%28Hsieh,_Hsi-teh%29@931234567.html *Leona Woods (1919-1986), American nuclear physicist * Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921- ), American medical physicist (Nobel prize for radioimmunoassay) http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Yalow,_Rosalyn_Sussman@861234567.html

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