- [Maria Sibylla Merian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian): one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly
- [Mary Sherman Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan): invented hydyne (a liquid rocket fuel)
- [Emmy Noether](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether): mathematician; discovered her namesake First and Second Theorems (fundamental in mathematical physics)
- [Cecilia Payne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin): discovered what the universe and sun are made of
- [Clarice Phelps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Phelps): part of the team that discovered element 117 (tennessine); first Black woman involved with the discovery of a chemical element
- [Vera Rubin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin): discovered dark matter
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## Misc
- [Marie Van Brittan Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown): co-invented home security surveillance
- [Bessie Coleman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman): first Black woman to earn an international pilot's license; first known female aviator
- [Martha Gellhorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn): journalist and WWII war correspondent; pretended to be a nurse to be the only woman at Normandy on D-Day
- [Helen Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)): journalist and namesake of "Lewis' Law": "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism"
- [Elizabeth Magie](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Maggie): created the progenitor to the *Monopoly* board game
- [Madam C. J. Walker](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker?lang=en): entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in the USA