Headstrong: 52 women who changed science-- and the world

Medicine

Biology and the environment

Genetics and development

Physics

Earth and stars

Math and technology

Invention.

Medicine. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906)

Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954)

Alice Ball (1892-1916)

Gerty Radnitz Cori (1896-1957)

Helen Taussig (1898-1986)

Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)

Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)

Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999)

Jane Wright (1919-2013)

Biology and the environment. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)

Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871)

Mary Anning (1799-1847)

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911)

Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)

Alice Evans (1881-1975)

Tilly Edinger (1897-1967)

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

Ruth Patrick (1907-2013)

Genetics and development. Nettie Stevens (1861-1912)

Hilde Mangold (1898-1924)

Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994)

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)

Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch (1907-2007)

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012)

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)

Anne McLaren (1927-2007)

Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)

Physics. Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Lise Meitner (1878-1968)

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)

Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972)

Marguerite Perey (1909-1975)

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997)

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)

Earth and stars. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941)

Inge Lehmann (1888-1993)

Marie Tharp (1920-2006)

Yvonne Brill (1924-2013)

Sally Ride (1951-2012)

Math and technology. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

Sophie Kowalevski (1850-1891)

Emmy Noether (1882-1935)

Mary Cartwright (1900-1998)

Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)

Invention. Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)

Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000)

Ruth Benerito (1916-2013)

Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014).