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Women in Science

Explore women in science history through the Smithsonian's collections and meet some of our scientists. See more from Smithsonian Institution Archives' Women in Science Wednesday.

Forever American Scientists: Maria Goeppert Mayer single

Margaret Mann Lesley (1891-1988)

Katherine Johnson

Chien-Shiung Wu

Dr. Frances Arnold

Margaret D. Foster (1895-1970)

Dr. JoGayle Howard holds black-footed ferrets conceived through artificial insemination

Maxine Singer

Margaret Reed Lewis (1881-1970)

Sophie Lutterlough at a Microscope, 1983

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)

Julie Packard

Monkey Monitor: Smithsonian Scientist Meg Crofoot

Agnes Chase Appointed Assistant in Systematic Agrostology

32c Margaret Mead single

Rachel Louise Carson

Botanical Biodiversity: Smithsonian Scientist Helene Muller Landau

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)

Rosalyn Yalow

Inventive Minds: Patricia Bath

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, 1962

Leading Kepler Scientist: "I Didn't Plan on Being a Scientist"

Janet Rowley

Frog-eating Bats: Smithsonian Scientist Rachel Page

Microscope

Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)

Mary Agnes Chase Collecting Plants, Brazil

This Vet Went from Admiring Jane Goodall to Working With Her

Alice Brown

37c Barbara McClintock single

Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934)

Cornelia Maria Clapp (1849-1934)

Alice Brown (1856-1948)

How Scientists Are Working to End Deadly Bird Strikes

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