Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson was the first African-American woman to work as an engineer at NASA. She was also a brilliant mathematician who helped design the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 into space.
Irène Joliot-Curie
A French chemist and physicist who had a major impact on the field of chemistry, Marie was awarded (jointly with her husband) the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
Isabel Maddison
Isabel Maddison is best known for her work in differential equations which she was inspired to study, while at Cambridge.
Theano
Theano of Croton is usually given the title of the first woman mathematician. We don’t know very much about her. However, she is believed to be the wife of Pythagoras…
Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan was the first African-American woman to work as a computer programmer at NASA.