List of women scientists facts for kids

This is an alphabetical list of woman scientists.

A

• Mary Anning
• Anna Atkins

B

• Elizabeth Blackburn
• Linda B. Buck

C

• Rachel Carson
• Lorna Casselton
• Lydia Maria Child
• Jennifer Clack
• Marie Curie

E

• Emma Haruka Iwao

F

• Dian Fossey
• Rosalind Franklin
• Anna Freud

G

• Jane Goodall

H

• Caroline Herschel
• Dorothy Hodgkin

J

• Shirley Ann Jackson
• Irène Joliot-Curie

K

• Cynthia Kenyon

L

• Louise Leakey
• Mary Leakey
• Meave Leakey
• Rita Levi-Montalcini
• Anna Levinson
• Ada Lovelace

M

• Harriet Martineau
• Barbara McClintock
• Mika McKinnon
• Lise Meitner
• Maryam Mirzakhani

N

• Luisa E. Navas
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

P

• Linda Partridge
• Clarice Phelps

S

• Marie Stopes
• Alina Surmacka Szczesniak

T

• Margaret Thatcher
• Youyou Tu, Nobel Prize winner

Y

• Ada Yonath

Images for kids

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  Marble herm in the Vatican Museums inscribed with Aspasia's name at the base. Discovered in 1777, this marble herm is a Roman copy of a 5th-century BC original and may represent Aspasia's funerary stele.

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  Hypatia by Julia Cameron

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  Herrad of Landsbert

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  Sophie Brahe portrait

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  Margaret Cavendish

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  Portrait of Émilie du Châtelet by Maurice Quentin de La Tour

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  Annie Jump Cannon, 1922 Portrait

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  Mary Anning

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  Ida Freund

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  Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace)

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  Kadambini Ganguly