Marie Curie, a pioneering physicist and chemist, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only woman to have received Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields. She received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903
Rosalind Franklin was a chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work contributed significantly to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.
Primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist, Jane Goodall is renowned for her groundbreaking work with wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Barbara McClintock was a geneticist and cytogeneticist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of transposons, or "jumping genes."
Known as the "First Lady of Physics," Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions to the field.