Women Scientists

Woman chemist holding a molecular model

American chemist Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (b. 1929), shown holding a molecular model. She is noted for carrying out the first all-valence-electron, three-dimensional quantum-chemical calculations, and for research on the clinical effects of tranquilizers and narcotic drugs. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4572

 

Marian Pettibone with short grey hair and glasses sits at a lab bench in front of a microscope. There are files and specimen bottle on shelves behind her.
Dr. Marian Pettibone Discovered and Described New Forms of Oceanic Life 
June 26, 2024
Chien-Shiung Wu, smiling at the camera and wearing a lab coat, posing among unidentified apparatus
Chien-Shiung Wu, “The Chinese Marie Curie”
Sepia photo of Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady
Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady
Robin Kumoluyi wears a lab coat and reviews a sample under a magnifying glass
Stories of Women of Color in STEM
Mary Jane Rathbun examines crab specimens at her desk
Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century
Several colorful anthropological materials about Mesoamerican people and artifacts laid out on a wood table
Tracing Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall Through Smithsonian Collections
Joan W. Nowicke reviews a botanical sample. She wears a lab coat.
Women of the U.S. National Herbarium
Chien-shiung Wu turns dials on a machine
Chinese-American Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
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Blue stamp with a sepia photo of Barbara McClintock on it. The stamp also features a scientific drawing of her work on transposons and the words Barbara McClintock Geneticist.
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Barbara McClintock
Green book cover and white text reading "SILENT SPRING."
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Rachel Carson
This artifact is a Development Test Model (DTM) for the Voyager spacecraft.
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The Women of Voyager
Scientific illustration of Arthrostylidium sarmentosum, a bamboo.
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Agnes Chase's Scientific Illustration