Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagues familiar with the subject's work write these memoirs and as such, the series provides a biographical history of science in America. This special collection features memoirs of women who shaped American science. We hope you will enjoy—and be inspired by—the biographies of these groundbreaking researchers.
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Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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 Gertrude M. Cox
Applied Mathematical Sciences
(1900-1978)
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 Gertrude S. Goldhaber
Physics
(1911-1998)
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 Maria Goeppert Mayer
Physics
(1906-1972)
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 Julia Robinson
Mathematics
(1919-1985)
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 Vera C. Rubin
Astronomy
(1928-2016)
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 C. S. Wu
Physics
(1912-1997)
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Biological and Biomedical Sciences
 Gerty Cori
Biochemistry
(1896-1957)
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 Mary Edmonds
Biochemistry
(1922-2005)
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 Katherine Esau
Plant Biology
(1898-1997)
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 Gertrude B. Elion
Medical Physiology and Metabolism
(1918-1999)
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 Marilyn Gist Farquhar
Cellular and Developmental Biology
(1928-2019)
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 Charlotte Friend
Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology
(1921-1987)
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 Libbie Hyman
Physiology and Pharmacology
(1888-1969)
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 Shirley Jeffrey
Plant Biology
(1930-2014)
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 Mary Ellen Jones
Biochemistry
(1922-1996)
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 Marian E. Koshland
Immunology and Inflammation
(1921-1997)
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 Sydney Kustu
Genetics
(1943-2014)
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 Rebecca C. Lancefield
Biochemistry
(1895-1981)
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 Martha L. Ludwig
Biochemistry
(1931-2006)
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 Barbara McClintock
Genetics
(1902-1992)
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 Elizabeth C. Miller
Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology
(1920-1987)
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 Lois K. Miller
Genetics
(1945-1999)
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 Eva J. Neer
Medical Physiology and Metabolism
(1937-2000)
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 Ruth Patrick
Ecology
(1907-2013)
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 Helen Ranney
Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology
(1920-2010)
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 Sarah Ratner
Biochemistry
(1903-1999)
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 Elizabeth S. Russell
Genetics
(1913-2001)
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 Florence R. Sabin
Medicine
(1871-1953)
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 Ruth Sager
Genetics
(1918-1997)
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 Berta V. Scharrer
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
(1906-1995)
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 Thressa C. Stadtman
Biochemistry
(1920-2016)
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 Martha Vaughan
Medical Physiology and Metabolism
(1926-2018)
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 Zena Werb
Medical Physiology and Metabolism
(1945-2020)
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Behavioral and Social Sciences
 Linda S. Cordell
Anthropology
(1943-2013)
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 Frederica de Laguna
Anthropology
(1906-2004)
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 Victoria A. Fromkin
Anthropology
(1923-2000)
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Mary Haas
Anthropology
(1910-1996)
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Olga Linares
Anthropology
(1936-2014)
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Margaret Mead
Anthropology
(1901-1978)
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Elinor Ostrom
Human Environmental Sciences
(1933-2012)
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Margaret F. Washburn
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
(1871-1939)
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 Matilda White Riley
Social and Political Sciences
(1911-2004)
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