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Rachel McKendry (born 1973), chemist and digital public health pioneer; Linda McDowell (born 1949), British geographer, writer; Jane E. Parker (born 1960), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants; Emma Parmee, British chemist who was one of the leads in the discovery and development of sitagliptin
Margaret Seward (1864–1929), one of the first two female chemistry students at the University of Oxford; signed the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society; Vera Bogdanovskaia (1868–1897), one of the first female Russian chemists; Gerty Cori (1896–1957) Jewish Czech-American biochemist who was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science
The hot comb was an invention developed in France as a way for women with coarse curly hair to achieve a fine straight look traditionally modeled by historical Egyptian women. [44] However, it was Annie Malone who first patented this tool, while her protégé and former worker, Madam C. J. Walker, widened the teeth. [45]
Burks is also an advocate for women and underrepresented groups in science, speaking from her experiences as a black woman in STEM. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 2018, Burks was a co-principal investigator for a $1.5 million NSF STEM grant to fund the establishment of the St. Andrew's Institute for Interdisciplinary Science (I4), which would promote ...
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Some U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientists have been told to stop using the words "woman," "disabled" and "elderly" in external communications, two sources familiar with the matter said ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American chemists. It includes chemists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female chemists from the United States .
The most recent women to be awarded a Nobel Prize were Han Kang in Literature (2024), Claudia Goldin in Economics, Narges Mohammadi for Peace, Anne L'Huillier in Physics and Katalin Karikó in Physiology or Medicine (2023), Annie Ernaux in Literature and Carolyn R. Bertozzi for Chemistry (2022), Maria Ressa for Peace (2021), Louise Glück in ...