Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, PhD
Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, PhD, is a British space scientist and science educator.
Christine Darden
Christine Darden is an aerospace engineer whose research at NASA advanced supersonic flight.
Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant is an engineer and the founder of Black Girls Code.
Valerie Thomas
Valerie Thomas invented the patented illusion transmitter, a 3D imaging technology.
Katharine Way, PhD
Katharine Way, PhD, was a physicist who made significant contributions to the Manhattan Project.
Mary Brunkow, PhD
Mary Brunkow, PhD, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Nancy Grace Roman, PhD
Nancy Grace Roman, PhD, was an American astronomer known as the “Mother of the Hubble Space Telescope.”
Margaret “Hap” Brennecke
Margaret “Hap” Brennecke was the first female welding engineer employed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Kate Okikiolu, PhD
Kate Okikiolu, PhD, is a mathematician whose work has advanced the fields of geometric analysis and spectral geometry.
Cynthia Kenyon, PhD
Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, is a molecular biologist whose research transformed how scientists understand aging.