10 Women Scientists Who Should Be More Famous: Media
History has overlooked some brilliant women for too long.
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Cancer researcher Jewel Plummer Cobb working with a student at Connecticut College...
Photograph by Philip Biscuti, courtesy of Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, Connecticut College
German chemist Ida Noddack, c. 1930.
Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Jost Lemmerich, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics
Experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu was an expert in the process in nuclear physics...
Science History Images/Alamy
Medical researcher and health educator Mathilde Krim in 1987.
Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-gtfy-02041)
Mária Telkes, 1956.
New York World Telegram and the Sun Newspaper—Al Ravenna/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-113268)
Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin at Harvard College Observatory.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 (SIA2009-1325).
American anatomist Florence Rena Sabin.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC USZ 62 58747)
Canadian biochemist Maud Leonora Menten.
Image courtesy of portrait artist Irma Councill and The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame