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Women in science from 2001 to 2100 A.D
This is a list of notable women scientists active in the 21st century.
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Anne Astin (graduated 1976), biochemist active in dairy development
Katherine Belov (born 1973), Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil cancer researcher
Suzanne Cory (born 1942), Australian molecular biologist
Jean Finnegan , Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants
Camille Goldstone-Henry , Australian businesswoman and wildlife scientist
Gisela Kaplan , ornithologist and primatologist noted for her research in animal cognition, communication and vocal behaviour of primates and specifically native Australian birds
Naomi McClure-Griffiths (born 1975), American-Australian astrophysicist. Discovered a new arm of the Milky Way galaxy
Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (born 1981), marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division
Sue O'Connor Australian archaeologist, discovered the world's oldest fish hooks which were found in an adult female's grave
Lesley J Rogers (born 1943), Australian ethologist and neuroscientist, expert in brain laterality
Moninya Roughan (born 1974), physical oceanographer, expert in the dynamics and warming of the East Australian Current
Una M. Ryan (born 1966), patented DNA test identifying protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium
Helen Alma Newton Turner (1908–1995), geneticist and statistician, expert on sheep genetics
Carden Wallace (fl. 1970–), marine biologist and museum director, expert on corals
Leonie Walsh , first Lead Scientist of Victoria
Rachel Webster (born 1951), astrophysicist, educator
Mary E. White (1926–2018), paleobotanist
Austria
Barbados
Velma Scantlebury (born 1955), first woman of African descent to become a transplant surgeon in the U.S.
Belgium
Bolivia
Sonia Alconini (born 1965), Bolivian archaeologist of the Formative Period of the Lake Titicaca basin
Kathrin Barboza Marquez (born 1983), Bolivian biologist specializing in bat research
Brazil
Mariza Corrêa (1945–2016), anthropologist, sociologist
Livia Eberlin analytical chemist, co-inventor of the MassSpec pen
Fátima Ferreira (born 1959), biologist, physician, educator, now vice-rector at the University of Salzburg specializing in
molecular allergology
Dorath Pinto Uchôa (1947–2014), archaeologist
Lúcia Mendonça Previato (born 1949), biologist
Alba Zaluar (1942–2019), anthropologist specializing in urban anthropology
Mayana Zatz (born 1947), molecular biologist and geneticist
Canada
Karen Bailey , plant pathology
Karen Beauchemin (born 1956), ruminant nutrition research
Roberta Bondar (born 1945), neurologist, astronaut, educator
Kirsten Bos , physical anthropologist, molecular paleopathologist
Lindsay Cahill , chemist
Juliet Daniel (fl. from 2001), focus on cancer biology
Martine Dorais , plant physiology, organic horticulture
Laura Ferrarese , astronomer
Roberta Gilchrist (born 1965), Canadian archaeologist specializing in medieval Britain
Sheena Josselyn , Canadian neuroscientist
Francesca M. Kerton , chemist
Julia Levy (born 1934), microbiologist, immunologist, entrepreneur
Mary MacArthur (1904–1959), botanist, cytologist
Deborah Martin-Downs , aquatic biologist, ecologist
Diane Massam , linguist
Elizabeth Pattey , agricultural meteorologist
Heather Pringle , writer on archaeology
Kathleen I. Pritchard , oncologist, breast cancer researcher and noted as one of Reuter's most cited scientists
Line Rochefort , Canadian ecologist
Francine Saillant (born 1953), anthropologist, writer
Sandra Schmid (born 1958), cell biologist
Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein , animal ethologist
Sara Seager (born 1971), Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist
Felicitas Svejda (1920–2016), horticulturalist
Sandra Witelson , neuroscientist
Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist
Chile
China
Margaret Chan (born 1947), Chinese (Hong Kong), health specialist, director-general of the World Health Organization
Zeng Rong , biochemist specializing in proteins
Jian Xu , CTO at IBM, software engineer
Zhao Yufen (born 1948), chemical engineer
Qian Zhengying (1923–2022), Chinese hydrologist and politician
Lü Zhi (born 1965), giant panda expert and conservationist
Tu Youyou (born 1930), Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist
Colombia
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Eva Syková (born 1944), neuroscientist researching spinal cord injury
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Finland
France
Anne Dejean-Assémat (born 1957), biologist researching liver cancer
Hélène Bergès (born 1966), director of the Plant Genomic Resources Center (CNRGV), plant geneticist
Rut Carballido Lopez , Spanish-born microbiologist and research director in Paris
Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Astronomer, Explorer and Astrophysicist
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), mathematician
Catherine Feuillet (born 1965), French molecular biologist who was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B
Françoise Gasse (1942–2014), paleobiologist specializing in lacustrine sediments
Laurence Lanfumey (born 1954), French neuroscientist
Dominique Langevin (born 1947), physical chemist
Claudine Rinner (born 1965), amateur astronomer
Martine Tabeaud (born in 1951) French geographer, specialist in climatology
Fabiola Terzi (born 1961), physician-scientist
Aurore Avarguès-Weber (born 1983), cognitive neuroscientist
Germany
Andrea Ablasser (born 1983), German immunologist working in Switzerland
Katrin Amunts (born 1962), prominent neuroscientist involved in brain mapping
Ulrike Beisiegel (born 1952), German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen
Sibylle Günter (born 1964), theoretical physicist researching
tokamak plasmas
Hanna von Hoerner (1942–2014), astrophysicist
Eva-Maria Neher (born 1950), German biochemist, microbiologist
Nina Papavasiliou , immunologist
Elisabeth Piirainen (1943–2017), philologist
Ilme Schlichting (born 1960), biophysicist
Brigitte Voit (born 1963), chemist
Greece
Guadeloupe
Hungary
India
Joyanti Chutia (born 1948), work spans both centuries, focusing on physics
Seetha Coleman-Kammula (born 1950), Indian chemist and plastics designer, turned environmentalist
Paramjit Khurana (born 1956), Indian biologist specializing in plant biotechnology
Shobhana Narasimhan (graduated 1983), Indian physicist, professor of theoretical sciences in Bangalore
Priyamvada Natarajan (graduated 1993), Indian-born American astronomer, educator
Manju Ray (1947–2021), Indian biochemist developing anticancer drugs
Seema Bhatnagar (born 1971), Indian scientist, working in the field of anticancer drug discovery
Indonesia
Adi Utarini (born 1965), Indonesian public health researcher who works on disease control of dengue fever
Elizabeth A. Widjaja (born 1951), Indonesian researcher of bamboo taxonomy
Karlina Leksono Supelli (born 1958), Indonesian philosopher and astronomer
Pratiwi Sudarmono (born 1952), Indonesian professor of microbiology at the University of Indonesia
Rose Amal (born 1965), Indonesian-Australian chemical engineer
Soejatmi Dransfield (born 1939), Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos
Tri Mumpuni (born 1964), Indonesian independent researcher, social entrepreneur, philanthropist, social activist, and micro-hydropower inventor
Iran
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University
Saba Valadkhan (born 1974), Tehran Education:Columbia University an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University
Ālenush Teriān (1920–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy'
Mina J. Bissell , Iranian-American biologist known for her research on breast cancer
Pardis C. Sabeti (born 1975), Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist
Roxana Moslehi , genetic epidemiologist, researching cancer and cancer precursors
Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini , AITF Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada
Iraq
Lihadh Al-Gazali (born 1950), geneticist, established a registry for congenital disorders in the United Arab Emirates
Israel
Italy
Maria Abbracchio (born 1956), Italian pharmacologist who works with purinergic receptors and identified GPR17; on Reuter's most cited list since 2006
Daria Guidetti (born 1978), astrophysicist with the
INAF
Chiara Nappi (born 1951), Italian particle physicist active in the US
Elisa Oricchio (born 1979), discovered that the protein EphA7 activates the tumor suppressor gene for patients with follicular lymphoma
Latvia
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye , pharmacologist
Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe (born 1962), geologist specializing in
palynology and
sedimentology
Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi , environmental biochemist,
Oréal-Unesco award in 2013
Grace Oladunni Taylor (born 1937), Nigerian chemist, 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science
Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), chemist, educator
Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi (born 1939), botanist and environmental archaeologist
Felicity Okpete Ovai (born 1961), engineer, civil servant, politician
Norway
Tine Jensen (born 1957), psychologist specializing in psychological trauma
Pakistan
Sara Gill , Pakistani transgender activist and physician
Peru
Portugal
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Gloria Lim (born 1930), Singaporean mycologist, first woman Dean of the University of Singapore
Lisa Ng , virologist
South Africa
Spain
Margarita Salas (1938–2019), biochemist, author
Cari Borrás , medical physicist
Mercedes Fernández-Martorell (born 1948), anthropologist, educator
María José García Borge (born 1956), nuclear physicist
Carme Torras (born 1956), computer scientist specialising in robotics
Carmen Vela (born 1955), microbiologist, ministerial official, writer
South Korea
Ahn In-Young , Antarctic researcher and benthic ecologist
Chang Kyongae , (born 1946), astrophysicist
Cho Yoon-kyoung , interdisciplinary researcher
Choi Sookyung , particle physicist
Chung Kwang Hwa (born 1948), physicist and president of the
Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science ,
Korea Basic Science Institute , and
Korean Vacuum Society
Jun Mikyoung , statistician
Kim Eun-Ah (born 1975), condensed matter physicist
Kim Ju-Lee (born 1969), mathematician, educator, now in the United States
Kim V. Narry (born 1969), biochemist and microbiologist
Lee Hong Kum , Antarctic researcher
Lee Jung-Min , medical oncologist and physician-scientist
Lim Hyesook (born 1963), electronics engineer, served as
Minister of Science and ICT
Oh Hee , (born 1969), mathematician
Paik Hanhee , experimental quantum computing researcher
Park So-Jung (born 1972), chemist
Park Sukyung (born 1973), mechanical engineer, served as
Science and Technology Advisor to President
Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022
Pi So-Young (born 1946), physicist
Seo Eun-Suk (born 1971), astrophysicist
Soh Chunghee Sarah ,
sociocultural anthropologist
Yu Myeong-Hee (born 1954), South Korean microbiologist
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017), British geneticist
Gillian Bates (born 1956), British botanist, educator, Fellow of the Royal Society (2007)
Alex Bayliss , British archaeologist
Sue Black (born 1962), British computer scientist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars
A. Catrina Coleman (born 1956), Scottish electrical engineer, educator
Mandy Chessell (born c.1965), British computer scientist with IBM
Jenny Clack (1947–2020), paleontologist, expert on the "fish to tetrapod" evolutionary transition
Bryony Coles (born 1946), British prehistoric archaeologist
Janet Darbyshire , British epidemiologist, CBE (2010)
Annette Dolphin (born 1951), British pharmacologist
Shahina Farid , British archaeologist, best known for her work as Field Director and Project Coordinator at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey
Maria Fitzgerald (born 1953), British neuroscientist
Jane Goodall (born 1934), British primatologist and anthropologist
Monica Grady (born 1958), British space scientist
Emily Grossman (born 1978), British cancer researcher and science popularist
Helena Hamerow (born 1961), British archeologist and specialist in medieval archaeology
Joanne Johnson (born 1977), geologist, Antarctic scientist
Tara Keck (born 1978), American-British neuroscientist
Rachel McKendry (born 1973), chemist and digital public health pioneer
Linda McDowell (born 1949), British geographer, writer
Jane E. Parker (born 1960), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants
Emma Parmee , British chemist who was one of the leads in the discovery and development of sitagliptin
Sarah Pett , British medical researcher, immunopathologist, and COVID-19 researcher
Tracey Reynolds (born 1970s), British sociologist
Margaret Stanley , British virologist, OBE (2004)
Jean Thomas (born 1942), Welsh biochemist, educator
Miriam Tildesley (1883–1979), English anthropologist
Karen Vousden (born 1957), British medical researcher
Christine Williams (graduated 1973), British nutritionist, educator
United States
Astronomy
Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist
Debra Elmegreen (born 1952), astronomer, educator
Jill Tarter (born 1944), American astronomer, educator
Joy Crisp (graduated 1979), American planetary scientist
Linda Spilker (born 1955), American planetary scientist
Lucy-Ann McFadden (born 1952), astronomer
Maria Zuber (born 1958), American planetary scientist
Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specializing in radio astronomy
Pamela Gay (born 1973), American astronomer
Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist
Sandra Faber (born 1944), American professor of astronomy
Amanda Bosh (fl 1990s), American observational astronomer
Luisa Rebull (fl 2010s), American astrophysicist
Other fields of study
Athena Aktipis (born c.1981), American professor of evolutionary biology and psychology
Alice Alldredge (born 1949), American oceanographer and researcher of marine snow, discover of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) and demersal zooplankton
Ilkay Altintas (born 1977), Turkish-American supercomputing and high performance computing research scientist
Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976), Belarusian-American cognitive scientist
Stephanie Burns (born 1955), organosilicon chemist, business executive
L. Jean Camp (graduated 1988), computer security expert, professor
Lu Chen (born 1972), Chinese-born American neuroscientist
Anne Churchland , American neuroscientist
Sylvia Earle (born 1935), marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer
Deborah Estrin (born 1959), American computer scientist, educator
Katherine Freese (born 1957), theoretical astrophysicist, American professor of physics
Elizabeth Gershoff , American professor of human development and family sciences
Candace S. Greene (graduated 1976), American anthropologist,
National Museum of Natural History
Jane Grimwood , microbiologist, from 2000 worked on the
Human Genome Project at Stanford
Lisa Gunaydin , neuroscientist and professor
Gail Hanson (born 1947), American experimental particle physicist, educator
Gabriele C. Hegerl (born 1962), climatologist researching natural variability and attribution of climate change
Patricia Hersh (born 1973), mathematician, educator, researching algebraic and topological combinatorics
Valerie Horsley , American biologist
Aletha C. Huston , American professor of child development
Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946), American nuclear physicist
Alice K. Jacobs , American cardiologist, president of the
American Heart Association (2004)
Deborah Jacobvitz , American ecologist
Karen C. Johnson (born 1955), American physician and clinical trials specialist who is one of Reuter's most cited scientists
Rosemary Joyce (born 1956), American archaeologist who uncovered chocolate's archaeological record and studies Honduran pre-history
Renata Kallosh (born 1943), Russian-born American theoretical physicist, educator
Dina Katabi (born 1970), professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
Cynthia Keppel , nuclear physicist
Ann Kiessling (born 1942), American reproductive biologist, educator
Maria Kovacs , psychologist, educator
Cynthia Larive , American bioanalytical chemist
Emily Levesque (born 1984), American astrophysicist
J. Virginia Lincoln (1915–2003), physicist
Mariangela Lisanti (born 1983), American theoretical physicist
Anna Suk-Fong Lok , Chinese/American hepatologist, wrote WHO and AASLD guidelines for liver disease in emerging countries
Catherine A. Lozupone (born 1975), American microbiologist, working on the gut microbiome, who developed the UniFrac algorithm
Annie Luetkemeyer (born 1972), American physician and medical COVID-19 researcher
Silvia Maciá (born 1972), marine biologist
Carolyn M. Mazure (born 1949), medical researcher
Sally McBrearty , American palaeoanthropologist and Palaeolithic archaeologist
Lauren Meyers , American professor of integrative biology
Jill Mikucki (graduated 1996), microbiologist, Antarctic researcher
Barbara Haviland Minor , chemical engineer
Marianne V. Moore (graduated 1975), aquatic ecologist
Yolanda T. Moses (born 1946), anthropologist, educator
Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964), American chemist
Alison Murray (scientist) (graduated 1989), biochemist, Antarctic researcher
Elizabeth Nance , American chemical engineer
Anna Nagurney (active since 1996), Ukrainian-American mathematician specializing in operations management
Ann Nardulli (1948–2018), American endocrinologist
Elly Nedivi , American neuroscientist
Ann Nelson (1958–2019), American particle physicist
Anne B. Newman (born 1955), US geriatrics and gerontology expert
Lina Nilsson , biomedical engineering
Karen Oberhauser (born 1956), conservation biologist working with monarch butterflies
Nataša Pavlović , psychologist
E. Gail de Planque (1944–2010), nuclear physicist specializing in environmental radiation
Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American biologist, plant pathologist
Helen Quinn (born 1943), Australian-born American particle physicist
Lisa Randall (born 1962), American particle physicist, educator
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (born 1964), American bioengineer, professor at Rice
Geraldine L. Richmond (born 1953), American physical chemist, professor at University of Oregon, previous president of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Karin Rodland (born 1949), cancer cell biologist;
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; Laboratory Fellow of the U.S.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Una Ryan , (born 1941), Malaysian born-American, heart disease researcher, biotech vaccine and diagnostics maker/marketer
Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), Nigerian-born chemist, Bioanalytical chemistry
Linda Saif (graduated 1969), American microbial scientist, researching virology and immunology
Sandra Saouaf , American immunologist researching autoimmune disease
Velma Scantlebury - see Barbados
Hazel Schmoll (1890–1990), American botanist
Christine Siddoway (born 1961), Antarctic geologist
Caroline M. Solomon , deaf oceanographer and winner of the 2017 Ramón Margalef Award for Excellence in Education
Carsen Stringer , American computational neuroscientist
Sharon Stocker , known for discovery of
Griffin Warrior Tomb
Elizabeth C. Theil (graduated 1962), research into iron deficiency anemia
Sabrina Thompson (born 1985), American aerospace engineer and founder of fashion brand
Girl in Space Club
Krystal Tsosie , geneticist and bioethicist known for promoting Indigenous data sovereignty and studying genetics within Indigenous communities
Kay Tye (born c. 1981), American neuroscientist
Gina G. Turrigiano , American neuroscientist
Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born 1947), American molecular biologist
Elisabeth Vrba (born 1942), American paleontologist
Nora Volkow (born 1956), Mexican-American psychiatrist
Elizabeth M. Ward , American epidemiologist and head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department of the American Cancer Society
Rachel Ward , American mathematician
Christina Warinner , American anthropologist best known for her research on ancient microbiomes
Petra Wilder-Smith (born 1958), American dentistry and cancer researcher
Phyllis Wise (graduated 1967), American biologist, educator
Catherine G. Wolf (1947–2018), American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction
Kakani Katija Young (born 1983), American bioengineer
Hua Eleanor Yu , cancer researcher
Amy Proal (fl 2010x), American microbiologist
Venezuela
Mayly Sánchez (born 1972), astrophysicist studying neutrinos, awarded the US PECASE Prize in 2011
Vietnam
Zambia
Zimbabwe
See also
References