21. Anna Comnena
Dates: December 1 or 2 (sources differ), 1083 - 1148
Known for: Anna Comnena was the first woman known to write a history; she also wrote about science, mathematics and medicine.More »
22. Gerty T. Cori
Dates: August 15, 1896 - October 26, 1957
Known for: 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology, shared with her husband. She helped scientists understand the body's metabolism of sugars and carbohydrates, and later illnesses where such metabolism was disrupted, and the role of enzymes in that process.
23. Eva Crane
Dates:June 12, 1912 - September 6, 2007
Known for: Bee scientist; she founded and served as the director of the International Bee Research Association from 1949 to 1983. She originally trained in mathematics and obtained her doctorate in nuclear physics. She became interested in studying bees after someone gave her a gift of a bee swarm as a wedding present.
24. Gertrude Bell Elion
Also known as Gertrude Belle Elion
Dates: January 23, 1918 - April 21, 1999
Known for: Gertrude Elion is known for discovering many medications, including medications for HIV/AIDS, herpes, immunity disorders, and leukemia. She and her colleague George H. Hitchings were awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1988.
25. Alice Evans
Dates: January 29, 1881 - September 5, 1975
Known for: Alice Catherine Evans, working as a research bacteriologist with the Department of Agriculture, discovered that brucellosis, a disease in cows, could be transmitted to human beings, especially to those who drank raw milk. Her discovery eventually led to pasteurization of milk. She was also the first woman to serve as president of the American Society for Microbiology.
26. Dian Fossey
Dates:January 16, 1932 - December 26, 1985
Known for: Primatologist Dian Fossey is remembered for her study of mountain gorillas and her work to preserve habitat for gorillas.More »
27. Rosalind Franklin
Dates:July 25, 1920 - April 16, 1958
Known for: Rosalind Franklin had a key role (largely unacknowledged during her lifetime) in discovering the helical structure of DNA.More »
28. Sophie Germain
Dates:April 1, 1776 - June 27, 1831
Known for: Sophie Germain's work in number theory is foundational to the applied mathematics used in construction of skyscrapers today, and her mathematical physics to the study of elasticity and acoustics. She was also the first woman not related to a member by marriage to attend Academie des Sciences meetingsand the first woman invited to attend sessions at the Institut de France.
29. Lillian Gilbreth
Dates: May 24, 1876 - January 2, 1972
Known for: Lillian Gilbreth was an industrial engineer and consultant who studied efficiency. With responsibility for running a household and raising twelve children, especially after her husband's death in 1924, she established the Motion Study Institute in her home, applying her learning both to business and to the home. She also worked on rehabilitation and adaptation for the disabled. Two of her children wrote of their family life in Cheaper by the Dozen.
30. Alessandra Giliani
Dates: ~1307 - March 26, 1326
Known for: Alessandra Giliani was reputedly the first to use the injection of colored fluids to trace blood vessels. She was the only known woman prosector in medieval Europe.More »
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