Spotlight on Women in Science

Nineteenth-century researcher Anna Atkins collected specimens of algae and imaged them using the then cutting-edge blueprinting process

The 19th-century nurse and public health researcher understood the importance of light in fighting and preventing disease

Known fondly as the proprietor of “Bea’s Diner,” the nutritionist who created menus for our first spacefarers deserves to be better remembered

The 19th-century black “doctress” Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler should be on everyone’s radar

Born 300 years ago this month, Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a university chair in math

Cast your vote for the unsung and insufficiently sung female heroes of science for a celebratory poster series from the Perimeter Institute

Elizabeth Stern’s research led the way to our modern understanding of the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of cervical cancer

By harnessing “female energy,” Christiana Figueres convinced humanity to take on climate change

Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element named after her alone

Her husband, Claude, helped create the computer revolution, but few knew that she was his closest collaborator

African-American women working behind the scenes as “human computers” were vital to the Space Race

Everyone knows that history's great mathematicians were all men—but everybody is wrong