15+ Remarkable Women in STEM Who Changed the World

Anousheh Ansari is a chairman of Prodea Systems, a company that will unleash the power of the Internet to all consumers.

Dr. Hayat Sindi is a medical scientist and she is famous for making major contributions to point-of-care medical testing and biotechnology.

Valentina Tereshkova is know for being the first and youngest woman in space, having flown a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.

Sau Lan Wu is a particle physicist and the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sarah Stewart was a researcher who first showed that cancer-causing viruses can spread from animal to animal.

Rosalind Franklin was a chemist whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, coal, and graphite.

Mary Sherman Morgan was a rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957.

Mary Ross was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed.

Mary Anning was a fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known around the world fo finding Jurassic marine fossil beds.

Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist. She developed on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program.

Mae Carol Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Hypatia was a philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, and prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy.

Grace Hopper was a computer scientist and pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.

Evelyn Boyd Granville was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University.

Elsie MacGill known as the “Queen of the Hurricanes”, was the world’s first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree.

Chien-Shiung Wu was a particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics.

Bessie Coleman was a civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license.