An article from Sky & Telescope about the impact of Annie Jump Cannon, creator of the star classification system still in use today, on the field of astronomy.
A memorial biographical sketch of Elizabeth Rona, one of a group of scientists who pioneered the use of radioactive tracers, published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
A brief biography of Maria Goeppert Mayer, who shared a Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the nuclear shell structure, from the Nobel Prize Organization.
A brief biography of Mary Anning, an early fossil hunter and discoverer of rare and significant fossils, from the National Center for Science Education.
A digitized archive of papers, articles, and personal ephemera of a chemist whose research into x-ray crystallography is critical in our understanding of the structure of DNA.
A brief biography, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, of Rosa Smith Eigenmann, an ichthyologist and the first woman permitted to take graduate level courses at Harvard.
An entry from the Jewish Women's Archive encyclopedia about Vera Rubin whose pioneering research on galaxy rotation rates brought to light the effects of unseen Dark Matter.